Paris Saint-Germain won against Lens (3-1), their runner-up in the league, quickly reduced to 10 in the first period. With this success, Christophe Galtier’s players take a nine-point lead in the standings and are getting closer to their 11th Ligue 1 title.
PSG certainly sounded the end of the suspense in Ligue 1. Facing a team against which they had won only once in their last five confrontations in Ligue 1, the Parisians were not entitled to the mistake and did not fail, this Saturday April 15 at the Parc des Princes. Christophe Galtier’s players, entangled in a series of poor league results since their elimination in the knockout stages of the Champions Leagueraised their heads against their runner-up in the race for the title in a delicate extra-sporting context.
Gianluigi Donnarumma had to work from the start of the match with a superb save on his line (2nd), depriving the Ghanaian Salis Abdul Samed of the opener for the Lensois. Enterprising, the Sang et Or confiscated the ball from PSG in the first quarter of an hour, which could only shine on a strike from Lionel Messi well countered by his compatriot Facundo Medina (13th).
But the expulsion of Abdul Samed after an overly muscular intervention on Achraf Hakimi (19th) destroyed RC Lens’ good start to the game, penalized a few minutes later by the opener full of control from Kylian Mbappé (1- 0, 31e). The French international also became the top scorer in the history of PSG in Ligue 1 with 139 goals, erasing the record held until then by Edinson Cavani.
In numerical inferiority, the Lensois ended up sinking at the end of the first period, first on a floating strike 25 meters from Vitinha (2-0, 37th), then on a cross shot from Lionel Messi perfectly served by a millimeter heel. by Kylian Mbappé (3-0, 40th).
Eleventh title in sight for the Parisians
After a sluggish start to the second half, the Lensois restarted their match against the run of play thanks to a penalty conceded by Fabián Ruiz following a handball in the area, and converted without shaking by Frankowski (3-1, 60th). Reinvigorated, the Lensois managed to threaten Donnarumma’s cage several times thanks to a very restless Loïs Openda (65th, 67th, 79th).
The Parisians could have made the score even worse, but Brice Samba intervened well against Mbappé (74th) and Hakimi (77th) to keep his team alive at the end of the game. The Lensois remained solid against the final chances of Mbappé (87th) and Messi (90th + 2), sealing the meeting with a success for PSG. Now with a nine-point lead at the top of the championship, the Parisians are already claiming the 11th title of French champions in their history and are ensuring a more serene end to the season.