LENS: Paris St-Germain secured their fifth straight French Ligue 1 title on Wedne\u00adsday as Khvicha Kvaratskhelia\u2019s strike set up a decisive 2-0 win away to nearest rivals RC Lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Georgian netted his 19th goal of the season just before the half-hour mark and substitute Ibrahim Mbaye added a late second as PSG took an unassailable nine-point lead at the top with one match of the season remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PSG boss Luis Enrique said that his team showed they have the mentality to win games even when they are on the back foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToday, we spent more time defending than usual,\u201d said Luis Enrique. \u201cBut if you want to win trophies, you have to be able to dominate both offensively and defensively. And the team today showed the mentality it needs to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is the sweetest and hardest title to win. The hardest of the three years we\u2019ve had here, without a doubt. But that\u2019s also because Lens did a very good job,\u201d the Spanish manager added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PSG have now won a record 14 French titles overall with 12 of them coming in the last 14 years, a period in which they have been transformed under Qatari ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Five in a row is the longest streak of successive Ligue 1 titles since Olymp\u00adique Lyonnais claimed seven on the bounce between 2002 and 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This latest league title adds to their trophy haul for the season, in which they had already won the UEFA Super Cup, FIFA Intercontinental Cup and French Champions Trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There might yet be more to come, as the defending Europ\u00adean champions face Arsenal in the Champions League final in Budapest on May 30 \u2014 they will become just the second team in the modern era to win back-to-back Euro\u00adpean Cups if they defeat the Gunners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe wanted to come here and win, but we especially want to prepare for the final on May 30,\u201d last year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or winner Ousmane Dembele told broadcaster beIN Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have one more game to come on Sunday (against Paris FC). We will celebrate this because it\u2019s official now, we are champions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lens, meanwhile, are now guaranteed to finish second, secu\u00adring a spot in the league phase of next season\u2019s Champ\u00adions Lea\u00adgue as they prepare to retu\u00adrn to that competition for the first time since 2023\/24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The northern side will also face Nice in the French Cup final on Friday, May 22. Wedn\u00adesday\u2019s other game saw Strasb\u00adourg win 2-1 at Brest with goals from Valentin Barco and Sebastian Nanasi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However they cannot finish higher than eighth and will not therefore qualify for Europe next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LENS: Paris St-Germain secured their fifth straight French Ligue 1 title on Wedne\u00adsday as Khvicha Kvaratskhelia\u2019s strike set up a decisive 2-0 win away to nearest rivals RC Lens. The Georgian netted his 19th goal of the season just before the half-hour mark and substitute Ibrahim Mbaye added a late second as PSG took an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875","service":"facebook","timestamp":1778833310,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16116,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114\/revisions\/16116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}