Can PSG lose the French league?

Paris, 21 Mar Can PSG lose the French league? A few days ago, that question was not on the table, but the team's elimination in the Champions League against Real Madrid left the team inert and Sunday's defeat in Monaco (3-0) raised all alarm bells. The first to do so was the captain, Marquinhos: “If we play more games like this, the title is in danger. We have to change our mindset.” A statement that highlights the feeling surrounding a club that can only qualify for one title, the French league, for which it has a 12-point income with nine games to go. In order for PSG not to lift the tenth league title in its history, the eighth of the Qatari era, the debacle must be as big as the one experienced by the team in the last half hour of the second round of the Champions League round of 16 at Santiago Bernabeu. There they let out all the work done in the first leg and during the first hour of the match in Madrid, when they were superior to the whites and seemed to have their ticket to rooms secured. The fear of elimination after the first goal of Madrid paralyzed the team and, in view of the match against Monaco, it seems that this stalemate has not yet ended. The team is in a state of obvious neglect. Several players, with Neymar at the helm, let themselves go and collective involvement has disappeared. PSG is adrift due to lack of motivation and only the advantage in the table gives hope of winning a title. “ESTEEM FOR WHO WE ARE” It's the danger of a club built just to win the Champions League. The absence of other objectives leads them to a no-man's land when the road through Europe is interrupted. If Marquinhos avoided targeting his teammates, Kylian Mbappé, the only one who seemed to want to rebel against the drift, made it clear that only everyone's involvement can prevent catastrophe. “We have to be professional, respect the fans, have a minimum of esteem for who we are,” he said on Amazon television at the end of Sunday's match. The striker, who with his performances has kept PSG alive above the rest of the stars, seems to want to continue pulling the tank, despite the fact that fewer and fewer think that his future lies on the banks of the Seine at the end of his contract on June 30. A start that is also announced for coach Mauricio Pochettino, who tried to seek the reaction of his players to secure the league title and avoid the first season in white since the Qatari millions began to emerge. “It is inadmissible, a shame,” said the coach, who had said the previous day that he felt capable of rescuing the team from the state of depression in which the European elimination plunged him. Pochettino has to find the formula to rehabilitate the team, which in Monaco scored its fourth consecutive defeat away from Parc des Princes, something that did not happen in the last 13 years. PSG seems to have lost the hunger for victory and for the thirteenth time so far this season it started losing a match, something that hasn't happened in a decade. Another milestone: the team has conceded 27 goals in 29 rounds, the highest figure in eight years. All this despite having what is considered the best squad in Europe, which makes the coach's balance catastrophic, which can be even worse if he does not finally add the tenth league. PSG has not found a winning formula throughout the season and has remained high thanks to Mbappé's pull. The improvement of recent months was cut short in Madrid and the team is now at the mercy of having their stars regain their desire. Difficult when the prize is too small for the expectation created. Luis Miguel Pascual