PSG can offer a beautiful gift to Ligue 1

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

It's been act: the final of the 108e Edition of the Coupe de France will put PSG and the Stade de Reims on May 24 on the lawn of the Stade de France. A boon for the Champagne club, which had not been at such a party in the dean of French competitions since 1977. With a posts in perspective for Europe.

In the fight for the maintenance this season, 15e From the championship after 27 lifes (out of 34) with only two lengths ahead of the Havre barragist, Reims to claim a continental ticket is however sentenced to winning. The unhappy finalist, since 2016, no longer benefiting from sesame abandoned by a potentially qualified winner for the C1.

Future champion of France, PSG will certainly play the Champions League during the next exercise, and will therefore only have the ticket for the Europa League promised to the winner of the Coupe de France. An accessit which in the event of Parisian consecration on May 24 will therefore benefit an elite training.

Strasbourg and Lyon suspended from the fate of PSG

According to this scenario, sixth place in Ligue 1 – as the fifth – will be synonymous with the final phase of the Europa League, when the seventh position will offer as a consolation lot a qualification in the league conference, the third of European cups. The first three rows remain qualifying for the Champions League; The fourth for the preliminary towers of the C1.

If the season was to stop today, on the eve of the 28e Act, PSG would be accompanied in the Champions League of AS Monaco and OM, or even OGC Nice. In the event of the final victory of PSG in the Coupe de France, Lille and Strasbourg would go to the Europa League and Lyon in the league conference. If Reims, however, had to have the last word, the RCSA would be satisfied with the conference league and OL would remain empty -hand. All these perspectives that can still be altered by possible European coronations of Parisians and Lyonnais.