"PSG beat Brest 1-0 on Sunday in their final home game of the season, with Desire Doue coming off the bench to score an 82nd-minute winner. The victory restored their six-point advantage over Lens with two games remaining, and even though they face their nearest rivals in their penultimate fixture on Wednesday, a title turnaround looks highly improbable. Lens would have to take maximum points while hoping PSG do not earn another point, and see a 15-goal swing go in their favour, to snatch the trophy."
"The Opta supercomputer assigns PSG a 99.99% chance of retaining their crown for a fifth successive year, with Lens only pulling off a miraculous fightback in 0.01% of scenarios. And Luis Enrique agrees with those percentages. "We are champions!" Luis Enrique said after full-time. "I can say it, can't I? It's 99.9% sure! And I think we deserve it."
""We still have two matches to play, but we have a big advantage with the goal difference. Mathematically, we still need one more point, but I think we are champions. "That won't change how we approach next Wednesday's game, or Sunday's against Paris FC. "We will prepare these games one after the other, in order to arrive at the Champions League final on May 30 in the best possible form.""
"In the three-points-for-a-win era in Ligue 1 (since 1994-95), no leader with an advantage of more than one point with two games remaining has ever failed to win the title, let alone a six-point lead. Against Lens, who cannot drop any lower than second, PSG could become the third team this century to officially win the Ligue 1 title against their eventual runners-up, after Lyon versus Lens in 2001-02 and PSG versus Monaco in 2017-18."
PSG won 1-0 against Brest in their final home match of the season, with Desire Doue scoring in the 82nd minute after coming on as a substitute. The result restored a six-point advantage over Lens with two games left, even with a difficult penultimate fixture against their closest rivals. Lens would need maximum points, PSG to drop points, and a large 15-goal swing to overturn the deficit. An Opta supercomputer gives PSG a 99.99% chance of retaining the title, with Lens at 0.01%. Luis Enrique said PSG are champions, while still preparing each remaining match in sequence to reach the Champions League final on May 30 in the best condition.
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