On Sunday, Paris Saint-Germain won their first title of the season by winning
the Champions Trophyagainst AS Monaco (1-0 victory). Probably not the last, since the capital club is already almost assured of retaining its Ligue 1 title.
Indeed, even if Olympique de Marseille came back to seven points by destroying Le Havre (5-1) in a late match on the sixteenth day, the Rouge et Bleu hardly seem to be threatened by their pursuers. This is the damning observation that Jérôme Rothen draws up.
PSG revealing the Champions League
“For PSG, there is no competitionlamented the sports consultant, Monday evening, on the airwaves of RMC. I thought they could get hung up on one or two games. But if you take stock, because they played against all the best teams in the championship, Lille (beaten 1-3 on September 1, editor’s note) is the only team that had a semblance of… PSG led 0-2, then the goal was canceled (from Tiago Santos in the 83rd, editor’s note) and the end of the match is a little complicated. But hey, it lasted ten minutes. »
We will therefore have to wait until the third week of January to truly judge the level of PSG. “Whether it’s against Marseille, Monaco, Lyon… There is no competition, insists the former left attacking midfielder. So when you see that there is such a gap between the Ligue 1 teams and PSG, you tell yourself that it is
Champions League that we are going to judge PSG. »
