Paris St Germain Are Boiling With Issues
It is blatantly obvious that the capital outfit, Paris St Germain are a bitter shadow of themselves from their last two successive seasons in Europe. Internal behaviours are leaking a sensational belief to the public that the dressing room is tainted and unsettled.
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Aside from the behavioural drama, the club are also lacking display during match fixtures, allowing sides of a lesser caliber to complete dominate them through their own faults of complacency.
When lack of performance on the pitch is scrutinized, the first head to be decapitated is the coach, but in the case of PSG, the entire team is on a performance drought. The most obvious and hurtful to the team is leader, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. In Paris’ narrow victory against St Etienne on Sunday, Zlatan converted a penalty to help Paris retrieve 3 vital points to equalize with Marseille for 2nd place in Ligue 1.
But this is just about all the Swede did. Now it is difficult to criticize Zlatan as his performance against Les Verts was a reflection of man who may still be struggling to find confidence during a continuous battle with a heel injury. The Swede often times found himself very deep in the midfield, deciding the orchestration of passes, as opposed to being a central target to recieve he pass and in turn create a shot on goal.
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Les Parisians had no shots on target in the first 45 minutes against St Etienne, which with an attack who boasts the likes of Edinson Cavani, Ibrahimovic and Lucas, that limelight is disturbingly low. Yet, Paris’ midfield also look to have less motivation to create, as the likes of Marco Verrati continues to be a one man show in the lacklustre play of Blaise Matuidi and Thiago Motta.
With rumours of Motta’s potential departure from the capital, his dreary performance begins to make sense. According to French Football expert, Robin Bariner, the Brazilian is fighting for a reflection of importance from the club, but will not receive as he feels he is due.
As Bariner writes on Goal.com:
"“But the midfielder’s problems are broader than a lack of public appreciation.Motta is regarded, along with Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, as one of the three principle rocks that Blanc’s PSG have been built upon. His salary, however, pales into insignificance beside his more marketable team-mates and there is a feeling in the PSG dressing room that he commands an unjustifiably aloof attitude.While the player believes that the role of a boss deserves the salary of a boss, the board of the Parisian outfit do not feel that would represent value for money, and as such are not keen to negotiate over what might be the defensive midfielder’s last big contract.”"
So, if we take Bariner’s idea that Zlatan, Motta and Thiago Silva are the ultimate spine of Paris, then perhaps we can conclude why the team is crumbling.
Ibra is clearly still struggling to find precise form, Motta is unmotivated to help a team who cannot offer him his desires and Thiago Silva continues to have inconsistency per match. If spine of the club is weak, then the body of the club will suffer.