Always undefeated in France this season, PSG can hope to win 13e title of champion of its history this weekend. Consequence of the chasm that separates the club from the capital from its pursuers in Ligue 1.. The Parisians are in fact 19 points ahead of Olympique de Marseille and 21 on AS Monaco and will therefore be crowned in the event of a victory in Saint-Etienne and counter-performance of its rivals, respectively in Reims and in the Azurean derby against the neighbors of Nice.
AS Saint-Etienne essentially recalls good memories at PSG. It was also against the Forez club that Parisians opened their record in 1982. Opposed to the Stéphanois scarecrow, the Red and Blue had created the sensation by dominating ASSE at the end of a memorable final. If the Ile-de-France club had opened the scoring shortly before the time of play thanks to Toko, Michel Platini had equalized at the start of the last quarter of an hour and then allowed Saint-Etienne to pass before the first minutes of the extension.
For his last match with the Greens, Michel Platini had scored a double, before feeling a contracture.
The Greens seemed to go towards a seventh coronation in the Coupe de France but Dominique Rocheteau had crucified his former teammates in the last moments of the extension, allowing to tear a shooting session from the goal which was going to devote the PSG (6 TAB to 5). But to believe Laurent Paganelli, holder in the right corridor despite a painful ankle, the match could have been replayed. “I'm going to tell you something that no one ever knew”had he entrusted to the Parisian on the occasion of the reunion between the two teams during the final of the 2020 French Cup.
“Michel Platini could no longer move forward”
“Before the penalties, Robert Herbin came to tell us that we were offered to replay the final the next day to decide between us with PSG. I don't know who had this idea but it was serious. I still have his sentence in my head “he had explained. But the Stéphanois had not followed up on this proposal. The fault notably in the physical state of Michel Platini, who, for his last appearance with the Greens, had “Make a fabulous match”.
“Platini had a contracture, he could no longer move forward. He was just able to draw his penalty “he said, adding: “I had my sprain: I was dead. Replaying was impossible. »» The Greens had preferred to bet everything on the penalty shootout. Las, sixth shooter, Christian Lopez had missed his attempt, allowing Jean-Marc Pilorget to offer victory to Parisians.
