PSG thrashed Metz at Mbappé’s party

PSG had no mercy on Metz, who was the scapegoat who paid the consequences of facing a team thirsty with hunger and euphoric after the imminent renewal of Mbappé. The Parisians announced the extension of their star’s contract until 2025 in the run-up to the match and put an end to a season that, although it has not been entirely good, the renewal of the French international makes up for everything. The newly signed until 2025 by the capital entity was, how could it be otherwise, the great star of the match, scoring a hat-trick and receiving a deafening ovation which will be his hobby for the next three years. PSG thrashed Metz 5-0 and closed the season with a sweet taste for having renewed one of the best players in the world.

In Di María’s last game and in the match in which PSG was going to celebrate the renewal of Kylian Mbappé, Pochettino decided to join the fantastic four in attack and came out with everything against a Metz that was playing for salvation in the most difficult stadium in French football. The Argentine, sentenced by Qatar, sat for the last time on the bench of the current Ligue 1 champion.

The game was a military walk for PSG. Mbappé scored a brace in just 25 minutes and raised even more enthusiasm in some noisy stands of the Parc des Princes that did not stop giving him affection during the 90 minutes. Before the break, Neymar practically sentenced the match with a great definition and Metz only had to hope that Saint-Étienne did not draw in Nantes in the second half so as not to be officially relegated to Ligue 2. In the second half, Kylian Mbappé He continued his show scoring a hat-trick as soon as he left the locker room tunnel and the public, who ended the indefinite strike after the elimination against Real Madrid, gave him a spectacular ovation.

As if that were not enough, Di María, who said goodbye to the PSG fans this Saturday, joined Pochettino’s scoring party with a goal that also received a spectacular ovation from the Parc des Princes, who made the highest assistant in the history of the club king and received a corridor from his teammates to say goodbye to the team in which he has always been considered a pawn of the stars rather than a top-level player. There was no time for more and PSG closed the season with a hand against Metz, who are relegated to Ligue 2.

Marseille and Monaco, to the Champions League

A goal in added time by Ignatuis Ganago gave Lens a draw against Monaco (2-2), who was left without the Ligue 1 runner-up but will play the Champions League with Marseille, which thrashed Strasbourg (4-0) and finished second in the competition.

At the last minute, Lens frustrated Monaco’s second place. The streak was cut short by the local team, with nothing at stake, of the Monegasque team that had accumulated nine wins in a row. Philippe Clement’s team had the tenth on track, who with goals from Benoit Badiashile and Wissam Ben Yedder overcame the locals’ initial advantage obtained by the Pole Przemyslaw Frankowski. Ganago, in 92, established the final 2-2.

This marker was not wasted by Marseille who thrashed Strasbourg who were playing for European presence. Jorge Sampaoli’s team thrashed with two goals from Gerson along with those of Cengiz Under and Cedric Bakambu, leaving his rival out of Europe.

Besides, the Stade Rennes, which drew in Lille (2-2), will play the Europa League by finishing in fourth place while el Nice, which came from behind in Reims (2-3) with a hat-trick by Andy Delort in the last quarter of an hour of the game, will play in the Conference League. Hugo Ekitike and Kamory Doumbia put Óscar García Junyent’s team in a clear advantage, but the reaction of Christophe Galtiera’s team, who finished first, was rewarded in the final stretch. Strasbourg stayed out of Europe.

Jocelyn Gourvennec’s team, with nothing at stake, took the lead twice with Timoty Weah’s two goals but Benjamin Bouriegaud and Guirassy at the last minute gave Bruno Genesio’s team the necessary point to cling to Europe.

Hamouma avoids the Saint-Étienne tragedy

The Saint-Etiennea history of French football, bordered on tragedy on the last day of Ligue 1. For 46 minutes, the time that passed since the Nantes marked by means of Ludovic Blas until Romain Hamouma tied in the final stretch, was a team of Second division after 21 consecutive years in the Ligue 1.

Only three games on the last date had teams involved in the fight for relegation. especially two, the Metz and the Saint-Ettener. The Girondins, the third in discord, was virtually a Ligue 2 team due to the great difference against goals they had with respect to their two rivals.

In the end, it was Saint-Étienne the club that saved his skin. At least momentarily, because now he will have to face the auxerrewho fights for promotion, to decide which of the two is played next season in the highest category of French football.

The main victim of so much euphoria was Metz, who went straight to the Second Division also because of Hamouma’s success in the 79th minute of the clash that tied Saint-Étienne 1-1 at Nantes. The Saint-Étienne attacker, who came out onto the pitch after the break, took advantage of a good pass from Denis Bouanga to score a saving point with which he emerged as the hero of his team.

And while, Girondins achieved a sterile victory on their visit to Brest. He won 2-4, with a brace of sekou mara and with the goals of Richard Sleeves and of Javairo Dilrosum. They were not enough. The team led by David Screenplay was burned after playing with fire all season and will accompany the Metz on his way to hell league 2. The Saint-Etienneclub with the most titles in history along with PSG (ten), avoided the tragedy. Or he put it off. The promotion vs. auxerre will pass judgment.