Already crowned Champion of France, Paris was moving to Strasbourg Friday stress free. The Parisians approach the home stretch of the championship without much at stake, apart perhaps from securing the honorary trophy for top scorer Kylian Mbappé (22 goals). But opposite, Strasbourg has responded with a European place to win and therefore an unexpected drawthree everywhere, when PSG led 3-1 with 10 minutes remaining, after a double from Kylian Mbappé.
Saturday, reindeer consolidated its place on the podium by winning 2-0 against Stephanois still threatened, thanks to a double from Croatian Lovro Majer. The victory took time to take shape and the score may seem narrow for the Rennes goleadors who had defeated the Greens 5-0 in December in Saint-Etienne and had just punished Lorient with the same score. But for the first time in their history, the Rennais recorded a 19th victory in a season and reached 62 points, surpassing their 2009 record (18 victories and 61 points).
lens for its part snatches a point from courage against Nantes (2-2). Reduced to ten in the 19th minute following the red card from goalkeeper Jean-Louis Leca, the Artésiens were on the verge of breaking after the double from Moses Simon (8th, 32nd). But they succeeded “which few teams are able to do”, as pointed out by their coach Franck Haise, that is to say to return to equality by being in numerical inferiority.
Sunday, Monaco confirmed their winning streak beating Angers 2-0. The Monegasques are on a series of seven victories in a row in Ligue 1. For their part, Troyes won 3-0 over Lille. LOSC ended the match reduced to nine after the expulsions of Renato Sanches and Burak Yilmaz.
At La Mosson, Metz believed in it for a long time against Montpellier. The Garnets led 2-0 in the 78th, before sinking. Two goals, from Souquet then Wahi, allowed Montpellier to equalise. At the end of this 35th day, Bordeaux remains clinging to 19th place after a second consecutive defeat, against Nice (0-1).