To the south west, PSG will look on with a sense of frustration. Just as Kingsley Coman, one of their former academy players, headed Bayern Munich to Champions League glory in August, they are set to be denied another Ligue 1 crown by a quartet of their own. But if PSG must once again answer questions about their handling of youth players, Lille deserve praise for their character in what has been the most trying of campaigns. In the summer, they sold two key members of their squad. Off went Victor Osimhen, their top scorer last season with 13 Ligue 1 goals, to Napoli for a fee around the €70m (£60m/$85m) mark – an astonishingly good piece of business given the general deflation of the transfer market in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, while Gabriel Magalhaes joined Arsenal.