For the first time this season, the Parisians lost (2-3) against the much more convincing Niçois, despite a double from Kylian Mbappé on Friday evening.
The Parisians look grim. They recorded their first defeat of the season (2-3), when OGC Nice came to the Parc des Princes, at the opening of the 5th day of Ligue 1, Friday September 15. They thus miss the opportunity to seize first place in the championship for the first time, four days before the first Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund.
After the farewell of Marco Verratti, very moved by the messages of some of his former teammates and by his lap of honor, the Parisians were unable to appropriate the warmth of the Parc des Princes. The little Italian genius of the midfield is gone, as is the creativity of the Parisians.
While they seemed to have found the right fuel with their victory against Lens (3-1) and Lyon (4-1), which followed two initial draws, Luis Enrique’s players lacked a solution. Pressed by the aggressive Niçois from the first minutes, they lacked movement and precision, like Ousmane Dembélé’s two off-target shots.
An attack lacking benchmarks
Only Kylian Mbappé managed to find the fault in the very compact Nice defense. As captain, the French striker made up for his mistake which had allowed Nice to open the score. A tight shot (29th) and an acrobatic gesture which reduced the gap at the end of the match (87th), number 7 has already scored seven goals in Ligue 1. He is provisionally the top scorer in the championship.
The second recruit for the Parisian attack, Portuguese center forward Gonçalo Ramos, was invisible for his third start of the season. Randal Kolo Muani replaced him shortly after the hour mark (64th) and seemed more comfortable on the pitch. Snatched from Eintracht Frankfurt at the very end of the transfer window, the 24-year-old center forward was unable to reverse the trend: “We played against a very solid team, one of the rare undefeated ones, he analyzed on the microphone of Prime Video. Concerning us, he We must not forget that we are a new team, we still have to adapt.”
A Parisian attack lacking benchmarks against a Nice team, which on the contrary was well in place and concentrated around Terem Moffi, author of a double (21st, 68th).
For the first time in the last six matches between the two teams, the Aiglons won against the Parisians. The capital’s players will have to quickly raise the bar before an important week, and two shocks against Borussia Dortmund (September 19) and Marseille (September 24).