Paris Saint-Germain’s title procession takes a hit at Lyon

Conventional wisdom says that France has by far the weakest league of Europe’s Big Five, and looking at the Ligue 1 table, you can see why.

Paris Saint-Germain – 73 points. Everyone else – nowhere.

Unbeaten for nearly a year, PSG’s crushing domination of French football is such that when they drew 0-0 with Lille last month, you could almost feel the tremors. They promptly squashed their old rivals Olympique Lyonnais 3-0 in the cup, having earlier beaten them 5-1 in the league, so when the two sides met again on Sunday, most people expected PSG to extend their unbeaten run against French opposition to 47 matches.