PSG are Ligue 1 champions! Paris giants thrash AS Monaco 7-1 to win French title

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Tom Doyle15 April 2018

Paris Saint-Germain were crowned Ligue 1 champions on Sunday night as they beat title holders Monaco 7-1 at the Parc des Princes.

Mega-rich PSG may have experienced disappointment in Europe after exiting the Champions League at the last-16 stage to Real Madrid, but their domestic form has been superb.

Unai Emery's Parisian giants had won 27 of their 32 Ligue 1 games heading into Sunday's clash with Monaco, leaving them 14 points ahead of the Principality club with just six games to play.

PSG had also scored 96 goals in those 32 games at a incredible rate of an average of three per game, and brought up their century in just 27 minutes as they blew away Monaco.

Giovani Lo Celso got the ball rolling after 17 minutes, while Edinson Cavani added PSG's second three minutes later. It was three for Emery's men after 20 minutes as Angel Di Maria cheekily chipped in, and Lo Celso nabbed his second to put PSG four clear after just 27 minutes.

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Rony Lopes scored what would be a consolation for the visitors before the first half was even finished, but Di Maria netted his second, Radamel Falcao scored an own goal and Julian Draxler netted the seventh to seal PSG's seventh Ligue 1 title at a canter.

Monaco - devastated by the sale of so many key players last summer - were forced to relinquish their trophy in humiliating fashion.

To add insult to injury (Djibril Sidibe was stretchered off in the first half), Monaco's star man last season - Kylian Mbappe - was only on the substitutes' bench for PSG, merely emphasising the gulf between the two sides.

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