Two wins are all that are required to be absolutely sure of the title, but PSG could be handed the honour as soon as Saturday night.
If Marseille lose in Saturday’s early game, PSG win here, and Monaco-Nice ends as a draw later that evening, then the title will be wrapped up with seven games remaining – the second-earliest ever in Ligue 1 history.
The PSG squad from 2015-16 hold the honour of the earliest ever title win, doing so with eight games remaining, and they went on to win by a 31-point margin that season, with the current crop romping towards a similar gap.
A 3-1 win over second-placed Marseille in Le Classique before the international break moved PSG a staggering 19 points clear at the summit, and also took them ever closer to a new club-record unbeaten start to a campaign.
Also in 2015-16, PSG did not lose any of their first 27 games of the season, and this weekend’s fixture will be number 27 of the campaign, but Enrique’s men will have their eyes on becoming the first French club ever to complete an entire league season undefeated.
Nantes were the closest to achieving that, going 32 games unbeaten in the 38-game 1994-95 season, but PSG will fancy their chances of closing down their record, considering they have the opportunity to emulate the legendary AC Milan side of the early-1990s here.
If PSG avoid defeat, it will be the 38th successive away league game without losing in the league, and would equal the all-time top-five-league record set by Milan between 1991 and 1993.
Saint-Etienne are unlikely to offer much of a threat to that record given their recent results against PSG either, failing to win any of the last 27 head-to-heads – their longest winless run against any opponent in their history.
PSG have only enjoyed a longer unbeaten league run against two clubs, and both are also ongoing: versus Brest (32 matches) and Angers (30 matches).
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Saint-Etienne led 2-0 away to the Ligue 1 basement boys before riots in the stands from the home supporters forced the game to be halted, and the points have still not been handed out to Les Verts, who were on course to win the game.
That will move them out of the automatic relegation places, and level on points with 15th-place Reims, who are dismally out of form at present, meaning ASSE’s hopes of surviving the drop on their return to the top flight have been handed a huge boost.
Seventeen of their provisional 23 points have also come at home this season, but it is unthinkable to expect anything from the hosts here, facing Europe’s most in-form side at present, and the clash could be done and dusted by half time, because no team has scored fewer first-half goals (eight) and conceded as many (29) as Les Verts in Ligue 1.
