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Ligue 1: winner in Angers, Lille wins a well-deserved title

2021-05-24T05:09:53.153Z


The Mastiffs became champions of France 2021 thanks to their success in Angers (1-2). This is their first coronation in ten years, at the end of


It's a Ch'titre!

Lille is the 2021 French champion in the face and beard of PSG.

The Northerners needed a victory to ensure the coronation, they never trembled in Angers, by subduing a totally demobilized opponent (1-2).

The club of the capital has never been virtually champion, the Mastiffs shooting first.

The last day will have chosen to put on Charentaise and play it cushy while the entire 2020-2021 financial year will have seduced with its permanent twists and turns, its incessant reversals, Lyon, Paris, Lille and even Monaco each believing in their turn to be in the Grail.

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When Paris will end up scoring in Brest on a cornered corner from Angel Di Maria, after missing a penalty by Neymar, it was already too late, as an allegory of his season.

He will have had all the trouble in the world to find the right tempo and his eight losses weigh heavily on arrival.

A single draw among this losing roller coaster would have propelled him to the front.

If the outcome was known this Sunday evening, the verdict was played out long before and elsewhere.

The reward of hard work

Here are Lille champions for the fourth time in their history, the first for ten years.

And if we immediately insist more on the runner-up than on Christophe Galtier's men, it is because PSG first and foremost shot himself in the foot.

But the feat of LOSC remains considerable.

He has just stolen the title from a club that had trusted seven of the last eight Hexagoal, the name of the trophy that will be awarded to him on Monday afternoon.

There will be a few people, masks, frost, but the jubilation will win out because Lille fully and fully deserves its celebration and the honors.

🏆🏆 CHAMPION 🏆🏆



For the 4th time in its history, @losclive is crowned @ Ligue1UberEats champion!

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đź‘Ź Bravo to Lille for this superb season!

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- Ligue 1 Uber Eats (@ Ligue1UberEats) May 23, 2021

He finished with only three defeats in 38 days, it's a tour de force.

This team was unplayable, not the most spectacular of the season, not the most bling-bling but it is the reward of hard work, ingenious recruitment, charismatic revelations (including flagship scorer Burak Yilmaz) and 'a trainer.

Wherever he goes, Galtier succeeds in his mission, after having awakened the Greens of Saint-Etienne for years, dying since his departure.

Four years after his return to Lille, a club where he played as a player, he won a huge cup, despite the changes and changes.

Lille will have been a great washing machine, with a lot of transfers in all directions and a fluctuating shareholder base. The technician changed president during the season and the previous staff left the crates bloodless, with a deficit of 190 million euros. Galtier, himself, will give up his coach seat to a champion who will have to shed all his treasures to regain financial shine. Today's heroes will not be tomorrow's. Lille has given intense emotions to an entire region but the story will not see an extension next season unless another miracle occurs. A new cycle begins. In the meantime, the Ch'tis have had a whole summer to dream and maybe even a little more. They come to build memories for a lifetime.

Source: leparis

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