Criticism is growing in Paris: PSG under Pochettino are playing nothing. Messi is also being fired at

When Lionel Messi arrived at PSG in the summer, the management and the fans promised that they would finally win the dream Champions League trophy. But the Argentine didn’t fit into the star-studded squad as expected.

Messi – Mbappé – Neymar, this trio was supposed to destroy everything in its path. But as the Champions League game against Manchester City showed, for example, so far the trio of stars has been rather detrimental.

Offensively, they are brilliant, of course, but defending doesn’t do anything for either of them. At the Etihad Stadium, you could watch all three of them just strolling around in the middle of the pitch without the ball.

And then it’s hard to win games against the best. In today’s football, a sophisticated system and team concept of the game will always beat stars and talent. Just look at the recent Champions League winners.

Chelsea triumphed with their sophisticated defence, Bayern rode like a machine the year before and Liverpool impressed with their incredible teamwork. All teams were coached by a German coach, so German discipline came in handy.

That’s why criticism of PSG, Mauricio Pochettino and the attacking trio is growing in Paris. After Wednesday’s goalless draw with Nice, French journalists were not mincing words.

“The play of Mauricio Pochettino’s charges is going absolutely nowhere. It’s nothing,” wrote the daily Le Parisien sharply. Other journalists blamed the attacking duo Messi-Mbappé for the first home draw.

” It feels like he’s always playing at the same slow pace. And sometimes he even disconnects himself from the game completely,” the newspaper criticised Messi.

Furthermore, the journalist of the famous newspaper is not sure that the position of the false nine, in which he started against Nice, is ideal for Messi at PSG.

If you want to stick up for Messi, the French journalists have one compelling argument. The 34-year-old Argentine has played over 600 minutes in Ligue 1 and scored just one goal.

Source: Le Parisien, L’Equipe, Marca