Quickly reduced to ten after the expulsion of Achraf Hakimi, PSG conceded their sixth defeat of the season against Lorient (1-3) on Sunday.
The Park is looking for new princes. For the sixth time this season, PSG lost in Ligue 1, Sunday April 30, against Lorient (1-3). Launched towards a new title of champion of France, the Parisians displayed a very sad face in front of their public, in a Parc des Princes extinguished in the absence of the Auteuil bend, closed.
Despite the presence of the Messi-Mbappé duo at kick-off, the Parisians showed nothing. Reduced to ten from the twentieth minute after Achraf Hakimi’s second yellow card, they logically bowed against Lorient sometimes inspired, sometimes solid. And rewarded with two goals from Enzo le Fée and Darlin Yongwa, before Bamba Dieng finally increased the score late in the game.
Mbappé’s malice was not enough
At the end of additional time, the Lorient public did not bother: the successions of Lorient passes were accompanied by “olé, olé” from the visitor parking lot. A chambering of good war, which came to underline the poverty of PSG on the lawn. “This is for the supporters, we remain humble”, nuanced a few minutes later Laurent Abergel at the microphone of Canal +. The Lorient captain preferred to savor, rightly, the prestigious success of his team at the Parc des Princes, while only four PSG players took the time to greet the public.
“It’s hard to talk. It’s a difficult moment”, admitted for his part Gianluigi Donnarumma at the same microphone, visibly dejected, even when he promised that PSG would do everything to get the title. We can at least concede to the Italian goalkeeper that Paris will find it difficult to do less than what he proposed against Lorient this Sunday. Because it was the Hakes who played like a top team, with the desire and the talent that implies. Paris believed to avoid sinking when Mbappé took advantage of a hesitation to equalize on an incredible goal, following a misunderstanding between the referee and the Lorientais (1-1, 29th).
A trickster from the French striker, very discreet for the rest of the meeting, like his teammates. The expulsion of Achraf Hakimi in the 20th minute did not help, of course, but cannot serve as an excuse for an apathetic, demobilized and passive PSG, who showed absolutely nothing on their lawn against the eleventh in the League 1. For its part, Lorient alternated polished offensive sequences and more defensive phases, all in control. After Nuno Mendes’ injury in added time, Paris even finished the game at nine.
Logically rewarded for his successful performance, Lorient inflicted on Paris its sixth defeat of the season in Ligue 1, the third at the Parc des Princes after those against Rennes and Lorient. Mbappé’s immunity totem, defeated for the first time at home after scoring for his club, was not enough. If PSG still has a solid lead over OM in the standings, the capital club will not avoid the crisis after such a performance.