PSG has not failed this Saturday in the final of the French Cup. Big favorite in front of a stadium of Reims entangled in the promotion/relegation dams against FC Metz, the club of the capital logically won 3-0 on the lawn of the Stade de France, thanks to an early double of Bradley Barcola (16e19e) and a realization of Achraf Hakimi (43e).
The outcome certainly did not make much doubt, but it indeed formalizes three importance changes. Winners of the French Cup and Championship, Parisians during the next Champions Trophy will thus face their first Dolphins in Ligue 1. namely OM players. For a confrontation that should take place this winter – club World Cup this summer requires.
Another notable education after this new trophy raised by PSG: the redistribution of cards as to European places. Sixth of the elite this season, OL initially promised to the League Conference inherits a direct ticket for the Europa League – the sesame devoted to the Winner of the Coupe de France being abandoned by a Paris already qualified for the next edition of the C1.
Strasbourg, the legitimate award
The same goes for the seventh position in the Ligue 1 classification which, won by Strasbourg, becomes with this qualifying Parisian triumph for the third of European Cups, the conference league, via its dams. A batch of meritorious consolation for a juvenile and talented Alsatian training which fought for a place in C1 until the last day of the championship.
Note that this new distribution of roles is still subject to the conclusions of the National Directorate of Management Control as to the accounts of an OL always under the scope of a possible demotion in Ligue 2. A Lyon club which is also in the UEFA collimator.
