5 Takeaways as PSG suffer home defeat to Monaco ahead of key Chelsea clash

Paris Saint-Germain fell 3-1 at the hands of AS Monaco at the Parc des Princes on Matchday 25 Ligue 1 McDonald's. Following their 5-4 aggregate Play-off tie win the Champions League, it was their fourth game against Pocognoli's team, delivered a worrying performance ahead of their Champions League Round of 16 clash against Liam Rosenior's Chelsea.

Here are five takeawyas from Paris' disapointing home loss against AS Monaco.

1) Slack home form again will leave Chelsea forwards licking their lips

Few would have imagined, at the start of the season, that PSG would be about to enter the last 16 of the Champions League as second favourites, but there is certainly a strong argument that this is now the case. Liam Rosenior’s Chelsea look to have regained some form in what was arguably Chelsea’s best performance of the season, a 4-1 away thrashing of Aston Villa that will leave fans of the London club highly optimistic ahead of next Wednesday’s clash in Paris.

For PSG, last night’s game represented the latest in a series of sub-par displays at the Parc des Princes this season, as PSG’s typically strong home form seems to have taken a definite turn for the worse over the last few weeks, with yesterday’s defeat meaning that PSG have now failed to win four times already at their home stadium in 2026 (for context, this only happened five times in all competitions in all of 2025, including a dead rubber Ligue 1 game in which Luis Enrique made wholesale changes in anticipation of the Champions League final).

2) Chances again not translating to Points for blunt Parisian attackers

Another concerning pattern of play this season has been PSG’s inconsistency in front of goal. Once again yesterday the Parisians had more possession, shots and shots on target but failed to make the breakthrough, and once again sloppy defending at the other end of the pitch allowed the Monégasques to create countless chances and eventually to cruise to a comfortable win. In a way it’s a microcosm of PSG’s whole season: a dynamic and high intensity team performance let down by sloppy finishing and careless defending.

3) Monaco revenge for skewed Champions League tie

Monaco’s win yesterday marks only fourth time any team has done the double in Ligue 1 over PSG since their takeover by the Qataris, and also symbolises revenge for the side from the South Coast who PSG recently eliminated in a close-fought Champions League play-off match – in which Monaco had a man sent off in each leg. The Parisians were arguably lucky to get through in the Champions League, and it felt as though their luck finally started to catch up with them yesterday, as Monaco were the more clinical of the two sides and stole what they will consider an important victory at the Parc des Princes.

4) PSG open the door for Lens once again

From a Ligue 1 title race perspective, it’s another extremely frustrating day for PSG. Dropping points allows Lens back into the title race, after PSG had finally started to pull away from them. Were the club from Calais to win at home to Metz tomorrow, they would be only one point behind the Parisians in second place, with the clash between the two sides at the top of Ligue 1, away at Lens, currently scheduled for the 11th April, looking more and more important by the day.

PSG will be disappointed to still be having to focus this much on securing the Ligue 1 title, especially with the number of careless points dropped by the European Champions over this domestic campaign.

5)  Enrique insists confidence must be regained in tough spell, but all is still to play for

It’s important to balance out the negativity by emphasising that this is not a fatal blow – PSG remain top of Ligue 1 and have to go into the Chelsea game next week with a positive mindset, especially as they will have home advantage in the first leg and thus will have the onus on them to attack from the start. Luis Enrique spoke in the post match press conference about the importance of his side regaining confidence, and that must be the priority ahead of what could be defining weeks in PSG’s season.