French football is following its own path, without any recommendation from UEFA to try to end the seasons. While Spain prepares to resume training next week with the approval of the Ministry of Health, with Germany and Italy looking for a way to return to the competition, and after the Netherlands decreed the end of their league as if it had not existed (neither champion, nor declines, nor promotions), France has opted for the cancellation path without ignoring what has already been played .

The French Professional Soccer League (LFP) agreed by vote on Thursday that the soccer season, previously settled by the Government of Emmanuel Macron, would be valid as it was at the time of its interruption due to the COVID-19 crisis. Thus, the employers decided to award the Ligue 1 title to PSG, which led second place Olympique de Marseille by 12 points . The Parisians still had 11 games to play (a match with Strasbourg was pending), with the rest of the teams pending 10 days to play.

Not having played all the teams in both Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 the same number of games at the time that France declared the state of alarm, the LFP decided to order the classification based on an average of points per games played.

Olympique de Marseille together with PSG obtained their classification for the group stage of the Champions League . Rennes, who would thus contest the previous round of the Champions League, could still qualify for direct qualification for the group stage. For this, yes, UEFA should get away with it, that the Europa League could conclude next August and that the champion was already classified for the Champions according to his merits in the national championship.

Lyon's last bullet

Lille, fourth in the table, ensures access to the Europa League. While Nice and Reims, fifth and sixth in the table, will accompany him in the tournament as long as the finals of the Coupe de France and the French League Cup are not disputed , with Saint-Etienne and Olympique de Lyon still aspiring to Europe thanks to their final theorists against PSG.

One of the great opponents of the measures taken by the LFP has been the president of Lyon, Jean-Michel Aulas , who was betting on a playoff system to conclude the championship. Once his proposal failed, Olympique de Lyon, seventh in the classification and who won in the round of 16 of the present Champions League against Juventus, is in danger of being left out of European competitions for the first time since 1997 .

The decision to grant declines has also been controversial. Although Toulouse, bottom, was already practically evicted (14 points from salvation with 10 games to play), Amiens also drops to the second category despite being only four points from the second-best, Nimes . Lorient and Lens, first and second in Ligue 2, are promoted.

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