Ligue 1 changed forever after Qatar took control of Paris Saint-Germain in 2011. Before, the Parisian team barely had two ‘Championnats’ (1986 and 1994) and was behind Olympique Marseille (10), St-Étienne (10), Nantes (eight), Monaco and Olympique Lyon (seven). ..
However, Al-Khelaifi’s presidency and the enormous investment made changed the map of French football forever. PSG began to sing their praises and only Montpellier (2012), Monaco (2017) and Lille (2021) could defeat them. 10 Leagues in 13 campaigns that have crowned the Parisians as the kings of France with 12 after the last one achieved this season.
He draw (3-3) against Le Havre spoiled PSG’s ‘Saturday night’ party at the Parc des Princes. However, on Sunday and without a hangover, they ‘championed’ from the couch after Monaco’s 3-2 defeat in Lyon against OL. Luis Enrique’s men had three days left to win a championship in which they had a hard time entering (12 points out of the first 21) but which they then dominated without opposition. They grabbed the lead on the twelfth day and did not let go after accumulating until they lifted the title after a chain of 26 games without losing!
They have had no opposition driven by Kylian Mbappé who has turned Ligue 1 into his garden. The Parisian crown is set with more diamonds since the ‘7’ scores in the Parc des Princes. The world champion was able to ‘take’ a ‘Championnat’ from PSG as a teenager with Monaco in 2017 and then returned home, to Paris, to dominate French football.
Mbappé’s Parisian records
The last championship won under Luis Enrique, with a younger and ‘French’ team far from the ‘galacticos’ of previous years, elevates the 24-year-old forward to the altars of France. “My goal is to win Ligue 1”, Mbappé repeats every year who has turned the French countryside into his recreational space while breaking achievement records with PSG. Kylian is the all-time top scorer in all tournaments (255 goals), in the League (174), in Europe (42) and in the Cup (35)… but he has a predilection for the ‘Championnat’.
Mbappé has lifted Ligue 1 seven times (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024). A figure that is only surpassed by Verratti and Marquinhos (nine) and Kimpembe (eight). However, none of them has been the top scorer of the tournament in five seasons in a row (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023). And he is on his way to sixth, since with 26 goals he has a considerable advantage over David (Lille), who has 17. Despite his substitutions, he has already surpassed his most successful campaign (42 goals in 2020- twenty-one). He is 43 and still has at least six games left.
Mbappé’s dribble that will remind you of Benzema’s at the Calderón: two little steps and one pipe
Furthermore, he has won four times the MVP of the tournament (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023), all consecutively (in 2020 it was left vacant due to Covid-19). Nobody had done it before. “I always wanted to win and write my name in the history of Ligue 1 but, even with all the ambition I have, I did not expect to do it so soon,” said Mbappé.
I always wanted to win and write my name in Ligue 1 history but, even with all the ambition I have, I didn’t expect to do it so soon
Kylian Mbappé, PSG player
Nobody has disputed his leadership in French football since he arrived at the Parc des Princes. Despite being surrounded by stars (Messi, Neymar…) Kylian has been the ‘boss’. His seventh Ligue 1 will lift him to the skies of Paris as captain. But his Gallic story ends. With his time in Paris about to end and with the Champions League semi-finals against Dortmund in the future and Real Madrid on the horizon, Kylian has sat back on his Ligue 1 throne. The legacy he will leave in France after his departure will go on for eternity.
2024-04-28 19:02:14
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