Why is AS Monaco – Paris Saint-Germain a Ligue 1 classic?
This Sunday, August 28, Paris Saint-Germain receives AS Monaco. many years, the confrontations between the two teams since give rise to spectacular matches. To the point of becoming over time, a classic of French football.
This Sunday, Philippe Clément’s men challenge Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes. This duel at the top between Monegasques and Parisians has now become a key event in French football. And we explain why.
A poster between two of the last three champions
How can we forget our magnificent 2016-2017 season? That year, Bernardo Silva and his teammates literally flew over Ligue 1 and won the eighth French championship title in Club history! Eight points ahead of the Parisian runner-up, the domination of the Principality’s players is indisputable. Since then, only Lille has achieved the feat of winning this prestigious trophy under the nose and beard of PSG, in 2021. A first reason why this Sunday’s poster is a classic of French football, between two of the last three champions !
Ben Yedder, Bernardo Silva, Falcao, Mbappé, Messi… Stars in spades!
Sitting quietly in front of a confrontation between the club of the capital and AS Monaco often offers the guarantee of seeing a plethora of stars on the ground. Only in recent seasons football lovers have been able to see Wissam Ben Yedder, Kylian Mbappé, Radamel Falcao, Bernardo Silva, Fabinho, Lionel Messi, Neymar or Thomas Lemar in this shock of the elite. Such a panoply of very high-level players, you can only see it in a classic between two excellent teams, right?
92 matches in Ligue 1, almost a record
This Sunday, August 28, 2022 will be the 93rd meeting between the two teams in the league. Can’t find that number? AS Monaco is quite simply the second opponent that Paris Saint-Germain has faced the most in its history, just behind the Girondins de Bordeaux (96 confrontations). If the record will not fall this season, it could be equaled during the 2023-2024 season, if the Bordeaux people do not find the elite next year. Being the second most met opponent in the history of a club, nothing more classic in the end. A little reminder of the 2017 episode at the Park?
A historic clash
If AS Monaco was created in 1924, 98 years ago, its Parisian counterpart had to wait much longer: 1970. During the 1970-1971 season, Parisians and Monegasques both played in National (the ancestor of League 2). Although the two clubs are not in the same group (Centre for Paris, South for Monaco), they meet in the final of accession with LOSC. Despite a draw (2-2), it was PSG who reached D1 following their victory over Lille (4-2). A clash from the first season in the history of Paris Saint-Germain, not all clubs can say the same.
Because this poster will never be in the multiplex!
Unlike other teams who face each other this Sunday at 3 p.m., the poster between AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain is not on the multiplex program. The duel between the club of the Principality and that of the Capital will be broadcast in prime time on Prime Video this Sunday evening at 8:45 p.m. A classic about you says…