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    Joyless PSG return to the top of Ligue1

    Jun 10, 2022 3 minutes
    ADAM WHITE

    Despair and jubilation were oddly inverted at the top of Ligue1 this season. For champions Paris Saint-Germain, their tenth title (a joint record), underwhelmed. Dreams of Lionel Messi combining with Kylian Mbappe and Neymar to produce flowing, continent-beating football were never realised, while PSG’s latest Champions League capitulation to a 16-minute Karim Benzema hat-trick in Madrid defined their year.

    Often fortunate to snatch more points than they deserved, PSG never truly convinced domestically and were carried by Mbappe who became the first player to top both the

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