Football Studies: Lionel Messi's worst start since 2007

The French team Paris Saint-Germain has an offensive line consisting of three players among the best in the world, one of them is Argentine Lionel Messi, who has won the Ballon d'Or award 6 times in his career. The other is the Brazilian Neymar, the most expensive player in the history of football, and the third is Kylian Mbappe, one of the most promising players in the world of football.
Despite the individual capabilities of each player among this forward trio, they have not yet succeeded in adapting together or shown offensive performance expected.
Ligue 1 leaders Paris St Germain dropped two points as they were held to a 0-0 stalemate at bitter rivals Olympique de Marseille after playing more than half an hour with 10 men amid minor crowd trouble on Sunday.
The game was briefly paused twice because of incidents involving OM fans after both teams had goals disallowed in an entertaining first half.The skills of the PSG trio cannot be denied, and this was evident in two vital matches in the Champions League, against Manchester City in England, and Leipzig of Germany.
Despite that, there is no harmony or consonance yet between Neymar, Messi and Mbappe, all together they do not show their best levels.
The fingerprint of Lionel Messi on the worst start to a season in his career, since the 2007/06 season, after he failed to score in his first 4 Ligue 1 matches this season.
Mauricio Pochettino relied on the aforementioned trio, along with Angel Di Maria, for the second time in the season, despite the players' capabilities, the Argentine coach failed to achieve success in both matches.
Neymar, who joined PSG in the summer of 2017 for 222 million euros, began to worry the fans of the Parisian club, because he was performing poorly and completely far from what the club and his fans expected of him.
Neymar has also scored one goal since the start of the season, which proves that the Brazilian did not start the season with the same pattern and dynamism as previous seasons.
Neymar's sarcastic smile after being substituted in the match testifies that he does not feel comfortable, and this is one of the reasons for the team's suffering and the decline in its performance.
The Brazilian's positioning at the center of the attack line forced Pochettino to involve Messi in the center of the wing, which affected his performance as well.
Messi, the favorite to win the Ballon d'Or, is still adjusting to his new club and the only one he joined after spending his entire career in Barcelona.
Messi failed to appear well in the winger position, and this doubled the pressure on Moroccan Achraf Hakimi, who received a red card in France's Clasico.
With the red card shown in the face of Hakimi, Messi returned to his normal position, but PSG had lost control of the match, and barely gave Marseille, the Argentine spaces to move.
As for Mbappe, he is in good shape and has been in charge of leading the team in recent weeks.Lionel Messi scored twice in the Leipzig match, but Mbappe, who opened the scoring for his team in that match, was the one who revitalized his team and was the man of the match.
Mystery still surrounds Mbappe's future, so the player is doing his best to make the Paris public forget the issue of renewing his contract, which expires in the summer of 2022.
Mbappe scored 6 goals in the French League and one in the Champions League so far, and he is the most decisive player in the team since the beginning of the season.