PSG 0-Monaco 2 | Monaco shows Barça the way to go back to PSG

Neither PSG was that good on Tuesday nor is it that bad now. The Parisian team has become an irregular team and the mortals of Ligue 1 look at you from you to you. After the ecstasy of the Camp Nou, bitterness arrived in the Parc des Princes against a rival who won 0-2 and made a defensive display. With two lines very close together and counterattacking with great speed, Monaco taught us how to defend this PSG and how to attack him, something that Barcelona could not do in the Champions League.

Pochettino, aware of what was at stake and inadvertently relaxing after the midweek thrashing at the Camp Nou, practically repeated the team that beat Barcelona. Ander Herrera was the great novelty in midfield and Mbappé, Icardi and Moise Kean played together again in attack. In Monaco, Kovac surprised with a system of 3 centrals to try to reduce the offensive potential of the Parisians.

There was no trace of Barcelona's PSG in the first half. The Parisian day-to-day in Ligue 1 has been characterized by irregularity and by the prevailing defensive errors in a team weighed down by the losses of Neymar and Di María. Monaco wanted to take advantage of the relaxation of their rival and found their prize very soon through Diop. The midfielder, trained in the Rennes quarry, took advantage of a great team move to overtake Kovac's men.

Monaco's great pressure work and their five-defense system was a nightmare for PSG, that this Sunday had Verratti on the bench and did not find any clear advantage in rival field. Volland was placed in individual marking on Florenzi and Diop and Fofana put pressure on Gueye and Paredes. IUnable to generate danger, the only arrival of Pochettino's men was a shot from Gueye from mid-range that brushed the post.

Monaco, far from shutting themselves in, repeated the intensity with which they had started in the first half and again surprised PSG with a goal in the opening stages. It was through Maripán, a center-back who was forgotten by Kovac at the beginning of the season and who added his fifth goal in the last six games, finishing with the interior an indecision of Ander Herrera in his area.

Pochettino was quick to react and gave entry to Rafinha and Verratti to give more dynamism to a PSG lost in a desert in the center of the field. Nevertheless, Monaco got everything, and the Principality team made it 0-3 in a great play that ended up finishing off Volland to the center of Caio Henrique after a spectacular long pass from Tchouameni. PSG tried to the end, but today was the day that Monaco won every match anywhere on the pitch.