Nice reached a six goals victory to guarantee qualification in the Champions League on the last night of the French season on Saturday, while Saint-Etienne was sentenced to relegation to the second level. The finalists of the Champions League, Paris Saint-Germain, had already won the title while Marseille and Monaco finished qualification for the Europe Elite Club competition before the Ligue 1 campaign reached its peak. However, one more place on the continent’s upper table remained to be won the last day with a fourth beautiful position in the pole position to take it if they could hold the Lille, Strasbourg and Lyon challengers.
The club belonging to Ineos made sure of a place among the first four by crushing Brest 6-0 on the Côte d’Azur with Gaetan Laborde marking twice.
The Ivorian international Evann Guessand put in front of his 12th goal of Ligue 1 this season, the Badrédine Bouanani then scored a penalty before Terem Moffi and Ali Abdi also reach the target towards the end.
Nice will enter the Champions League next season in the third qualification round in early August and will have to win two two -legged links to go to the League scene.
Lille finished fifth and entered the Europa League after the late penalty of Chuba Akpom of the replacement of Chuba Akpom won a 2-1 victory at home against Reims, while Strasbourg suffered a spectacular 3-2 defeat against Le Havre in a result which created an astonishing late touch in the relegation battle.
Le Havre needed to win and hope that one of the Reims or Nantes lost to escape the fall zone, and the Normandy team showed a remarkable resolution to come from behind before tearing off the victory in an extraordinary manner.
The second penalty of the Abdoulaye Toure match, at the ninth minute of the time of downtime, propelled Le Havre out of the fall zone and means that Reims will enter a match against the second Metz level for the right to play Ligue 1 next season.
Reims will now have to sail in both legs of this equality of the final of the French Cup next weekend against PSG.
The 200th goal of Lacazette Lyon
The defeat of Strasbourg allowed Lyon to climb over them and take sixth place while they beat Angers 2-0 with Alexandre Lacazette marking twice.
The former shelter of the Arsenal striker allowed him to reach a double century of goals for his childhood club while he is now preparing to leave Lyon, the club where he made his debut in Ligue 1 in 2010.
Lyon is guaranteed European football next season and will be in the Europa League if PSG wins the French Cup, which means that Strasbourg enters the conference league.
Saint-Etitienne needed a positive result as well as favors elsewhere in order to avoid being relegated, but they fell to a 3-2 defeat at home against Toulouse.
Yann Gboho marked what turned out to be the winner of Toulouse, while the champions of 10 times Saint-Etienne make an immediate return to Ligue 2.
PSG Title Day
PSG has warmed up for their next final, including the confrontation of the Champions League with Inter Milan in Munich on May 31, coming from behind to beat Auxerre 3-1 in the capital.
Lassine Sinayoko brought to the lead while visitors were threatening to spoil the title of PSG title, but Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored twice in the second half for the hosts on each side of a head of Marquinhos. Goncalo Ramos also recorded a penalty.
Marseille made sure to finish second as they beat Rennes 4-2 at the Vélodrome with Mason Greenwood marking twice, including once the penalty point, while Adrien Rabiot also caught a splint.
Greenwood scored 21 goals in his first Ligue 1 season to finish as a sniper from the division alongside Ousmane Dembele of PSG.
Monaco, third, fell to a 4-0 defeat to the objective, for whom Neil El Aynaoui scored twice, while Nantes assured their security by beating Montpellier 3-0 relegated.
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