It's not this one-sided. Current Messi forces the entire team to play at his pace, which is slow. Constantly dropping deep to the DM area, walking around, demanding the ball in static central positions with two banks of four in front of him and then spraying balls. His low workrate prevents him from participating in counter-attacks as well. So Messi often "influences" the game to the team's own detriment.
You can't really play a crossing-heavy game with Messi on the pitch is what I'm saying. He attacks the box very rarely, so it is minus one player there. When there is a loss of the ball when he is in his 10 area, he does not attempt to press the opposition, which makes it easy to counter for the opposing team. If the midfielders bomb forward to attack (because he does not attack the box) while he arrives late in a second wave, when there is a turnover it is always a chance for the opposing team to organize a dangerous counter.
Now add Neymar who has resembling habits and you have a tactical nightmare.
noone forces psg to play at a slow pace, it's players like danilo, gueye, wijnaldum, herrera etc who can't pass the ball to save their lives, that's why messi has to drop deep, because other than verratti noone knows how to progress the ball further in the opposition field
you can play the crossing game as well with messi, maybe even more efficient, because messi always drags around 2-3 defenders with him wherever he goes
once you play faster and up the tempo with switching sides and you have a good crosser of the ball on the other side and mbappe swinging in the box, it's a completely different story
i think psg has no clear instructions what to do, it's basically give the ball to the front three and let them do what they want (they're not even capable of doing that, but that's another thing)
