Luka Karabatic's teammates had secured the title of champion of France, the eighth consecutive and the ninth in total, from the 25th day a month ago already.

Since the takeover of the club by Qatar in the summer of 2012, the Parisians had always conceded at least one defeat or one draw per season.

In the past, Montpellier had approached the perfect season twice in 2009/10 and 2010/11, conceding only one defeat, when at the time the championship had 14 teams, compared to 16 since the 2020 season. /21.

With two draws in the 1995/96 season, OM-Vitrolles finished the season unbeaten, as did the Parisians in 2019/20, who conceded just one draw in a shortened season due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This season, the two trips to Montpellier and Nantes were the two tightest matches for Raul Gonzalez's players, who each time won by one goal, 34-33 in Montpellier on a goal at the very last second. of Mikkel Hansen, and 30 to 29 in Nantes.

This unbeaten record over a season was close to the Parisians' hearts, especially after the premature elimination in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in Kiel, a defeat by one goal (63-62 on all two matches) .

Another Cup in three days

"We may not realize it yet, but to achieve a clear round in the Starligue, with the level which is so high, I think it's an achievement. We must not minimize it, it has been an investment throughout the season, we never wavered. We did something historic," commented captain Luka Karabatic after the game.

Wednesday, in their hall of Coubertin and carried once again by the Parisian football ultras who came as neighbors, the PSG players did not experience the same cold sweats as against Nantes or Montpellier, dominating the Cristoliens who found themselves behind to the score from the first seconds of the game.

Nikola Karabatic delivered a full performance with seven goals on seven shots, top scorer in Paris.

The meeting between Parisians and Cristoliens was marked by the serious injury to the left knee of Boïba Sissoko, who left the field carried by Nedim Remili and two of his teammates from US Créteil.

Before a big renewal of the workforce (departures of Mikkel Hansen in Aalborg, of Vincent Gérard in Saint-Raphaël, of Nedim Remili and Benoît Kounkoud in Kielce, of Yann Genty in Limoges), the Parisians will have one last trophy to pick up on Saturday at Bercy in the final of the Coupe de France against Nantes, second in the championship.

In the other matches of the evening, Nîmes went to win in Limoges, for what was to be the last match of the international Michael Guigou, who was not finally aligned on the score sheet.

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