Messi is under pressure from PSG fans
Messi is under pressure from PSG fans
Paris St Germain fans continue to boo Lionel Messi since the club's exit from the Champions League this year.
PSG's hopes of winning the Ligue 1 Championship are also fading after Lyon beat them 1-0 at home on Sunday.
The Argentinian captain did not play a role in the game, the second time in a row that PSG was defeated at home, and without Messi scoring.
PSG is hoping to win Ligue 1 for the 11th time, and the ninth in 12 seasons since the Qatari billionaires took over the club.
Now the points gap between them and the next one's Lens and Marseille has been reduced to six, and there are nine games left at the end of this season.
This is PSG's worst season since 2001, and the next match they will play is at home to Nice, who has not been beaten since January 2023.
PSG hopes to win the Ligue 1 trophy this season after being eliminated from the Champions League and the French Cup.
Bayern Munich removed PSG from this year's Champions League, after winning home and away, the cup that the French team hopes to win for the first time.
"Every season PSG is kicked out of the Champions League, they go back to taking other games with no importance," said Vincent Duluc as published in L'Equipe.
Some people think that shouting at Messi should not be done when Messi touches the ball, which led Argentina to win the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.
Some supporters blame the team's lack of effort on the captain of Argentina after it seems that PSG has not yet been completed as it should be.
L'Equipe said that their shouting for Messi is related to the walking that he often does alone on the field, instead of running and trying to receive the ball from his opponents.
However, this season, Messi has not started walking a lot in the field - a study conducted at the World Cup in Qatar, Messi only walked 14 kilometers in the field in three games in the group.
However, some people forget that the problem is not Messi's behavior in the field, but that the years have dragged on, they will turn 36 in June at the end of his contract with PSG, after two seasons.
Now PSG's choice is whether to extend Messi's stay, which has dragged on for years and continued to pay him $43.6m every year when Uefa watched it spend the team's money in line with what it earned.
Maybe Messi's attention has turned to another team next season - some reports say that Barcelona has approached PSG about re-hiring the Argentina captain.