Club: PSG’s double grand slam in danger in Lyon
Traveling to Lyon this Sunday evening, PSG could see the two crazy series it can aim for this season stop in the event of a bad result.
The season fully in the lead, a goal that is getting more complicated
After having won eight in barely ten years, PSG have sometimes trivialized the fact of winning a French championship title and they are now chasing championship records, which they already have some of, such as the points record on a season (96 in 2015/2016) or the greatest number of points difference with the second (31 during this same season). This last disc has very little chance of falling this season given how much Paris is struggling to make the hole on its opponents, for once off to a good start. Before OL / PSG this Sunday evening, Paris is even second again since OM took a point against Rennes.
PSG had taken the lead from the first thanks to their great success in Clermont (5-0) and have never let go since, the club of the capital was therefore ideally launched to succeed in the perfect season, namely to be in the lead. end to end. But the very good start to the season for the Olympians (20 points in 8 games) puts Galtier’s troops in a less ideal situation than expected. If Paris loses this evening in Lyon, it will no longer be the leader when it is only the goal difference since the draw against Monaco (1-1) at the end of August. In the event of defeat, PSG could even drop to 3rd place if Lens wins in Nantes.
The ranking before OL / PSG:
- OM: 20 points (+11)
- PSG: 19 points (+21) (-1 game)
- Lorient: 19 points (+5)
- Lens: 17 points (+9) (-1 game)
- Monaco: 14 points (+1)
Finishing the season undefeated, the other grand slam
The other grand slam that PSG can aim for is the one that no one has ever achieved in Ligue 1, namely the famous full season without losing a match. FC Nantes in 1994/1995 is the benchmark with its 32 consecutive games without losing, but the people of Nantes lost at the end of the season in Strasbourg (0-2). For its part, PSG has already managed to complete a season with only two defeats in 2015/2016, the first of which occurred … in Lyon in February (1-2).
While it was rumored at the start of the season that Galtier and Campos had set the players the rather crazy goal of not losing any match in L1 this season, the evening clash is in any case one of the most complicated that they will have to face this season. But the possibility of finally taking a little lead in the standings after four days neck and neck is also very present.