• PSG ended its season with a final victory (5-0) against FC Metz in an incandescent Parc des Princes.

  • Already well heated by the announcement of Kylian Mbappé to stay at PSG, the stadium experienced a crazy evening punctuated by moving gods at Angel Di Maria.

  • After seven years in Paris, El Fideo played its last match on Saturday and received a strong tribute from the ultras of PSG.

At the Parc des Princes,

Paris is crazy.

Honestly, we couldn't see how else to start the story of a historic evening in every respect for PSG, started by the announcement of Kylian Mbappé's extension, continued by the rouste against Metz and punctuated by Di-Maria's farewell. -Coeur-Avec-Les-Doigts and the presentation of the French champion trophy.

Who would have thought a few weeks ago, the day after the Bernabeu trauma, that Parisian supporters would experience such a fiesta on the evening of May 21 for the reception of FC Metz at the Parc des Princes?

In a normal world, after what looked very very much like a nightmarish season, Mbappé would not have announced anything on Saturday evening, raising fears of an inevitable departure from Real (probably announced in tap-socks at Téléfoot), PSG would have nothing organized to celebrate the despedida of Angel Di Maria (as we feared for a time) and Metz would have won in a silent Park marked by the strike of the ultras.

Thank you, good evening, see you next season.

But Paris is wonderful in that it is never where you expect it to be.

And after a more-painful-you-die season, the club managed the feat of finishing with a bang in an atmosphere (finally) found.

And suddenly, all of Paris starts to believe it again

It all started at the start of the afternoon, around 3 p.m., when the rumors of the corridors became news: if señor, Mbappé has indeed decided to extend his contract with PSG and put Madrid in a state of guerrilla warfare. urban.

From then on, everything became possible again.

In line 9 which leads to the Park, he floated in the air like a je-ne-sais-quoi of blissful smiles.

A being (not) leaves you (not), and everything is repopulated, or something like that.

The smiles finally turned crazy when, at 8:45 p.m., the announcer took the floor to announce the arrival on the stage of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Kylian Mbappé.

The rest, you know it.

Once this point of detail is settled, what could go wrong with PSG?

Nada, as they say on the side of Castilla-La Mancha.

If the start of the match made us fear for a time a repetitive bis of what we had to stuff ourselves all season at the Parc des Princes, the fault of the enterprising Messins and playing their survival in Ligue 1, Mbappé quickly took the things in hand to seal his deal with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and the festival could begin.

One goal, then two, then three, etc, etc.

In the end, Pochettino's men (a sentence that we shouldn't write again in our lives after this paper) unrolled and curried poor Garnets relegated to the rank of scapegoat.

Adios, El Fideo

And as it was written that nothing, really nothing, would come to tarnish this evening of celebration, Di Maria managed to score his last goal in red and blue and give himself an ovation to spin your hairs.

Replaced a few minutes later, El Fideo left the field under the guard of honor improvised by his teammates – a fairly rare scene in the middle of a match, you will agree, with tears in his eyes and a heavy heart.

Because Ratatouille had not planned to end this story that began in the Monegasque heat one evening in August 2015 with a candy for Ezequiel Lavezzi.

But the leaders decided so, as he explained to us in the mixed zone after the match.

"It's the club's decision, we have to respect it.

They knew that I wanted to stay one more season here in order to fulfill my dream, to win the Champions League with PSG, we didn't go far two years ago, but that's how it is.

It's my only regret but I know that the boys will give everything to get there next season.

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Di Maria will console himself by telling himself that he did not leave in anonymity, in a silent Parc des Princes because of the strike of the ultras.

Indeed, after weeks of silence, the Collectif Ultras Paris ended its encouragement strike at the start of the second period.

And his first songs were for the Argentinian, obviously.

Later in the evening, after a presentation of the trophy, the details of which we will spare you, the ultras met at Fideo on the forecourt of Auteuil.

The same place where, three years ago, he celebrated qualifying against Dortmund with great fanfare.

“These seven years have been simply incredible, unforgettable.

There are so many things I want to remember from these seven years, starting with the love that the Parisian supporters have given me.

And I believe that if the ultras gave me the same party as against Dortmund, that means that I did things well at this club.

With that and this ovation from the Park, I leave more than happy.

“Smoke in hand, in Argentina, Di Maria ended with dignity an evening that no one at PSG is about to forget.

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