Paris (AFP)

The PSG boss of the go phase? Traveling to Montpellier on Saturday, Paris can win the honorary title of "Autumn Champion" based on the shock of dolphins Marseille-Bordeaux Sunday, main poster of a 17th day of Ligue 1 rich in hot spots.

- The shock: Marseille-Bordeaux -

Marseillais against Bordeaux, it smells good football before: the duel between Phocéens (2nd) and Girondins (3rd) recalls the 1990s, or the turn of the decade 2010, when Ligue 1 emerged from seven years of reign Lyonnais and had not yet fallen under the PSG.

Champion of France 2010, one year after a coronation of Bordeaux, OM appears lately as the team in the form of the championship: five victories of rank!

"If we manage to beat also Bordeaux Sunday, it can help to avoid others, to create a little margin before the holidays," calculated the Olympian coach André Villas-Boas.

"We have a welded group and we will give everything together," replied the Bordeaux midfielder Yacine Adli.

Disappointing 14th last season, the Girondins huddled on the podium, with draws and wins. But rarely pedestal has appeared so wobbly, in a ranking still dense: ninth, Nantes is only three points behind Bordeaux ...

- The player: Josh Maja -

After Victor Osimhen in Lille, the Ligue 1 discovered another nigériane nugget during the 16th day: Bordeaux Josh Maja scored the first three goals of the Gironde demonstration against Nîmes (6-0).

"I do not realize what happened," marveled the 20-year-old at the microphone of Canal +.

Maja, however, is not a dreamer. Titularized three times in L1 and once in the League Cup, the one who also has a British passport scored every game he started, except against Monaco.

It remains to prove his qualities against a cador of the championship. And that's good: Bordeaux moves Sunday in Marseille.

- The number: 1569 -

This is the number of days that will have elapsed Saturday since the last victory of PSG in Montpellier, a 1-0 snatched from the Herault thanks to a goal from Blaise Matuidi in 2015.

In their last three trips to La Mosson, the Parisians recorded a draw and two losses.

But before a last group game for butter next Wednesday in the Champions League against Galatasaray, no question of disperse: if Paris (1st, 36 pts) wins in Montpellier Saturday and Marseille (2nd, 31 pts) does not beat Bordeaux Sunday, the team of Thomas Tuchel will be assured of being champion of autumn.

Another scenario would virtually guarantee PSG to finish the first leg: a draw in La Mosson and a defeat in Marseille would give Parisians six points ahead with only two games left for OM, disadvantaged by its goal difference significantly less flamboyant (+4 against +24).

- The duel of fear -

Alert at the stadium of Meinau, not only for locals: receiving Toulouse (20th), Strasbourg (15th) must recover after the heavy defeat suffered in Brest Tuesday (5-0).

Four days after this "slap like I had never taken since I'm in Strasbourg", Thierry Laurey and his men have the obligation to revive against "Téfécé".

Which is not much better: Toulouse has not won in Ligue 1 since 19 October and a narrow victory (2-1) against Lille.

The Occitans are getting used to the bottom of the championship: they have not finished in the top 10 since the 2013/2014 fiscal year. And almost at mid-championship, the specter of Ligue 2 hovers over the "Pink City" ...

The program of the 17th day of Ligue 1 (in French hours):

Friday:

Lille - Brest 1 - 0

Nîmes - Lyon 0 - 4

Saturday:

(5:30 pm) Montpellier - Paris SG

(20h00) Monaco - Amiens

Nice - Metz

Strasbourg - Toulouse

Rennes - Angers

Sunday:

(3 pm) Reims - Saint-Etienne

(17h00) Nantes - Dijon

(21h00) Marseille - Bordeaux

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