Lionel Messi missed a goal in the second half / AFP
Paris Saint-Germain saw the victory vanish in the final discount, when Reims scored to tie and leave the team from the capital frustrated (1-1), on matchday 20 of the French Ligue, in which none of the candidates to the title he managed to win.
Lens (2nd) and Marseille (3rd) had drawn 1-1 against Troyes (15th) and Monaco (4th), respectively, on Saturday, and that gave PSG the chance to extend their lead as leader. However, their result was also 1-1 and everything remains the same.
In the four league games played in 2023, PSG barely won one and only added four of the twelve points that were at stake, which casts doubt on the form of the French soccer giant.
It was also difficult for PSG to break down the wall of Reims, a team from the middle zone of the table, and they did not succeed until the sixth minute of the match, when Neymar took advantage of a rebound in the area after a frontal shot from Lionel Messi.
The game was complicated for the Paris team in 59, when the referee went to check the VAR screen. He then decided not to finally concede a penalty that he had just awarded in favor of Reims, but showed Italian Marco Verratti the red card.
Messi had his best chance in the end, when he sent a shot into the area slightly wide with everything in his favor. And the failures ended up costing dearly, since Reims equalized at the last moment with a counterattack that the American-British Folarin Balogun finished off successfully in the sixth minute of injury time.
