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Lunar evening against Toulouse in perspective for the Parisians who, on the occasion of the last home match of the season and the final at the Parc des Princes of Kylian Mbappé, will have to celebrate their title of champion, five days after the elimination against Dortmund. The thirty-third and penultimate day of the French Championship is Sunday May 12, at 9 p.m.
Paradox Sunday. Receiving a trophy in a funeral atmosphere, with a hangover, is the next punishment promised to Paris – Saint-Germain, against Toulouse FC. As if the earthquake caused by the elimination Tuesday evening against Dortmund, on the 5e of the Bundesliga (24 points behind Leverkusen), without managing to score in two games, delighted in cynical replies. We do not recover from such an affront as we bounce back after more logical failures against Manchester City (2016, 2021), Real Madrid (2018, 2022) or even Bayern Munich (2023). The trauma is comparable to that experienced against United’s almost B team (2019). And a final, no-issue reception looms…
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In front of the TFC, the Parisians will probably not have the heart for anything, especially not to jump in front of their kop with their hand on the crest as a celebration, but they will have to pretend at least because they will not play again at the Parc des Princes this season.
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Their Ligue 1 will indeed end in Nice then Metz, two training sessions to prepare for the final of the Coupe de France, against Lyon and relocated to Lille because of the Olympics (May 25). Who will want to play and in what condition? Mystery. Not sure, however, that Luis Enrique does a lot of filming, out of respect for the public.
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This cruel schedule will also force the League to present this Sunday to Paris-SG the famous “Hexagoal”, rewarding the champion, and last of the name since a new trophy will see the light of day next year, to stick more closely to the future “Ligue 1 McDonald”. Podium and party favors on the menu. Yay. However, there is no question of misusing this 12e national coronation, the 10e of the Qatari era that began in 2011. Reason why President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi tried, Tuesday evening, to recontextualize the European failure, to praise this start of a new cycle and the overall assessment of his people: “I am proud of my team, the youngest in Europe (at this level). We are in the C1 semi-finals three times in five years. We hit the posts four times in this match, sometimes. It’s not fair. But you have to accept it.”
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Sunday, the evening also promises to be difficult for Kylian Mbappé. Will Real Madrid have made its arrival official by then? Not sure. Without her, it’s difficult to imagine farewells with great fanfare at the Parc against Toulouse while the Parisian star (8 goals this season in the LdC, equaled personal best) would undoubtedly have dreamed of taking the microphone and addressing the crowd, like Jean-Pierre Papin, at the Vélodrome, during an OM-Cannes in April 1992 before joining AC Milan. No one has scored more with PSG than Mbappé (254), no one has scored more than him at the Parc, no one has scored more goals than him in the European Cup with Paris (42); it’s hard to imagine a sneaky departure. And yet, if the white smoke does not escape from the Madrid house…
