2023-05-21 23:55:21
It’s over. PSG will indeed be champion of France. Imperial during his relegation tour with nine points and ten goals scored – Troyes (3-1), Ajaccio (5-0), Auxerre (2-1) – he extinguished all suspense this Sunday evening in Burgundy. Despite the tenacious and courageous resistance of Lens, winner a few hours earlier in Lorient (1-3), he has a six-point lead over the Northerners.
The affair therefore remains unofficial and virtual, but Paris would now have to lose against Strasbourg and Clermont, at least twice 5-0, while its runner-up wins everything, Ajaccio and Auxerre, at least twice 4-0. In short, even in the wildest dreams of the mining basin, the capital club will succeed itself on June 3.
Towards an 11th unpublished title in France
PSG will avoid the ridicule of a white season, which threatens for example Bayern Munich for the first time in eleven years in a German championship where the economic power of the Bavarians, above the competition, is comparable to that Parisians in Ligue 1 where, financially, no team can follow him.
He now only needs one point to transform this title into reality, set with some gilding. Eleven crowns of champion of France in the history of a French club, it is unprecedented. Paris had already marked the spirits this season with episodes sometimes more distressing than each other, it will finally end on a good note. We almost waited.
If the whole troop deserves the title, from Christophe Galtier to Carlos Soler, that is to say from the major players to the anonymous and sometimes useless members of the workforce, two men took care of everything. Lionel Messi’s 15 assists and Kylian Mbappé’s 28 goals at this stage will have propelled their team to first place, from the first to the 37th day, at least. The 2018 world champion, for example, remains on nine achievements in six meetings. He takes a little lead over Alexandre Lacazette for the scepter of the finest trigger in the kingdom (28 goals to 26).
A fifth goal conceded in six games
His double extinguished a festive Abbé-Deschamps stadium, launching a cheeky Auxerre from the first moments. But the potatoes of the right of the Bondynois calmed the first non-relegated, called to dispute the last place for Ligue 2 with Nantes. You have to wonder what this Auxerre-PSG would have been without its two goals, the final result, and the points ahead of Lens. It would be four, it would be three but not six in a game where Hugo Ekitike, replaced through injury before the hour mark, was once again transparent.
Despite this lead and good dispositions, Paris indulged in a few counterattacks which called on Gianluigi Donnarumma or his crossbar, whose solidity Rayan Raveloson will test before the break. Checked, it’s a nice piece of work. After half-time, the Burgundian deluge will look like a siege, with the inevitable: the opposing goal for the 5th time in the last six games on the goalkeeper’s dumpling, often on the ground too late when he comes out of huge parades on his line. As always with PSG, it’s time for it to end.
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