"Saint-Germain" is crowned the French league champion.
Paris Saint-Germain officially won the French football league title for the fifth consecutive time and the fourteenth in its history, after defeating its host Lens 2-0 on Wednesday in a postponed match from the twenty-ninth round.
Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (29) and substitute Senegalese Ibrahim Mbaye (90+3) scored the goals for Paris Saint-Germain, which only needed a draw to secure the title after practically clinching it on Sunday with a 1-0 victory over Brest in the penultimate thirty-third round.
The capital team achieved its second consecutive victory and the 25th this season, extending the gap to nine points ahead of Lens, which remains consoled this season by finishing in second place and ensuring participation in the Champions League next season, noting that it has a chance to end its season with a title when it plays the final of the French Cup against Nice on May 22.
PSG, which has the opportunity to win the Champions League title for the second consecutive time when it faces English Arsenal on May 30 in Budapest, has asserted its dominance over Lens in their last eight encounters, winning all of them, including three consecutive matches in Lens, marking the first time in their history.
Lens had the advantage from the start of the match, launching successive attacks on the goal of Russian goalkeeper Matvei Safonov, to whom the capital team owes its precious victory.
Safonov began his impressive interventions by saving a powerful shot from Odson Edouard from close range in the 16th minute, then did it again four minutes later against Wesley Saïd, before the ball rebounded to Thomasson, who headed it, but Ukrainian international defender Ilya Zabarnyi cleared it at the right moment.
Kvaratskhelia succeeded in opening the scoring when he received a ball from Dembélé, cut off by defender Malang Sarr, and played it over him to the Georgian international who was one-on-one, then penetrated the area and shot it with his right foot to the right of goalkeeper Ruben Lize (29), scoring his eighth goal this season.
Safonov saved his goal from the equalizer by deflecting a powerful shot from Senegalese Abdoulaye Sima from outside the area to a corner (38).
Dembélé nearly added the second goal with a low shot from inside the area that the goalkeeper deflected to a corner (44).
Safonov continued his brilliance by saving a shot from close range from Wesley Saïd, turning the ball into a corner (45+2).
The Russian goalkeeper continued to shine in the second half by saving a powerful shot from close range following a one-on-one with Sima (46), and another from the same player that he deflected with his right shoulder (55).
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