| Paris St Germain’s Edinson Cavani (right) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrate after the first goal against Troyes. PSG will go on and score eight times more for a 9-0 win. Photo: Reuters |
PARIS (AP) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored four second-half goals as Paris Saint-Germain clinched its fourth straight French league title in style, pulverising last-place Troyes 9-0 on Sunday to become champion with eight games to spare.
Forward Edinson Cavani scored twice, while midfielders Javier Pastore and Adrien Rabiot also scored and the other was an own goal.
PSG have lost just once this season – away to Lyon last month – and lead second-place Monaco by 25 points.
Cash-rich PSG, bankrolled by funds from Qatari investor QSI, have dominated so much that they have lost only once in any domestic competition over the past calendar year.
They are on course to defend their domestic treble and the club’s astonishing goal difference of plus 62 is more than four times better than the next-best Lyon’s. AP
