With its new victory won against Nantes on Saturday, PSG seems assured of a new league title.
Olympique de Marseille maintains the suspense. If the priority of the Phocaeans is now to secure their second place, threatened by Lens and Monaco, the success won by the men of Igor Tudor in Rennes (0-1), Sunday, at the end of the weekend indeed leaves the PSG under the threat. After 26 days, the club from the capital still has an eight-point lead over OM and is therefore not yet safe from a return from the Olympians.
Nevertheless, thanks to their victory against Nantes (4-2) on Saturday, the French champions are in a strong position to retain their title and win an eleventh crown in Ligue 1. Unheard of in the history of the championship . And according to the previous ones, the title can no longer escape the Red and Blue.
After 26 days, PSG already has 20 victories. A total that only three teams have reached in the past after 26 days: Sochaux in 1934/35 (20), Saint-Etienne in 1968/69 (20) and… PSG, which had already achieved this performance four times since the start. arrival of QSI (22 in 2015/16 and 2017/18, 23 in 2018/19, 21 in 2019/20). And each time, these teams won the title at the end of the season.
