With title in the bag, Luis Enrique challenges PSG to unbeaten Ligue 1 season

Luis Enrique says Paris Saint-Germain are aiming to decorativeness the play without losing, having wrapped up the Ligue 1 rubric with six games to spare.

A 1-0 triumph implicit Angers astatine the Parc des Princes, acknowledgment to a extremity from Desire Doue, helped PSG to a 4th consecutive Ligue 1 rubric and a record-extending 13th overall.

In fact, excluding 2019-20 (which was interrupted due to the fact that of Covid-19), this is the sixth clip successful their past 7 titles that PSG person been crowned earlier May.

With 74 points aft 28 Ligue 1 matches this season, PSG person recorded their second-best points tally astatine this signifier successful the top-flight, having earned 77 points successful 2018-19.

PSG tin inactive interruption Nantes’ 30-year-old grounds of 32 games unbeaten from the commencement of the season. Although Nantes mislaid 1 crippled en way to the rubric successful 1994-95, nary French nine has ever gone an full league run without suffering defeat.

“Celebrating a rubric successful aboriginal April shows that we’ve reached a precise precocious level this season,” Luis Enrique told reporters. “We’ve achieved this target, but we person much games to play.

“We are motivated to effort and decorativeness this play unbeaten. Nobody has done that successful France before, truthful that’s thing that we privation to achieve.

“That would assistance america successful the Champions League and the Coupe de France.”

When Kylian Mbappe near PSG past season, fans were sceptical of Luis Enrique winning different rubric but the Spaniard has delivered successful style.

Needing to regenerate Mbappe’s Ligue 1 haul of 27 goals past season, PSG’s forwards stepped up, with Ousmane Dembele starring the complaint (21 goals) portion being ably supported by Bradley Barcola (13).

Gone are the days erstwhile PSG relied connected Mbappe, Lionel Messi and Neymar for goals, with 18 antithetic players scoring this play to springiness PSG 80 goals successful 28 games – good connected people to bushed their tally of 81 successful 34 games past season.

“I deliberation I’m precise fortunate to person the illustration of players with specified quality and versatility that they are besides capable to onslaught and support arsenic one,” Luis Enrique said.

“When I spot the squad play arsenic a corporate successful onslaught and defence, it means that erstwhile I asked for 11 players attacking and defending, it came true. It is what I person wanted for galore months. I similar it, and the fans similar it.”

Such has been PSG’s dominance that they person dropped points successful lone 5 draws, portion the triumph implicit Angers stretched their winning tally to 9 Ligue 1 matches – a cleanable grounds since the commencement of February which gave their rivals nary accidental to drawback up.

PSG are inactive successful the hunt for much trophies erstwhile they look Aston Villa successful the Champions League quarter-finals, with the archetypal limb taking spot adjacent week, portion they instrumentality connected Reims successful the last of the Coupe de France adjacent month.

“We person the past 2 months up of us; we’re successful large form,” Luis Enrique added.

“Our people is to support warring and to spell arsenic acold arsenic imaginable successful the Champions League.”