Ousmane Dembélé is making a brilliant season with the PSG. Ligue 1 champion and with the Champions League finals and the France Cup on the horizon. Luis Enrique's team can culminate a dream campaign with a triplet that would be historical. Dembélé, meanwhile, already has his first individual title in his pocket. Pichichi of the French League has been crowned with 21 goals, the same as Mason Greenwood.
Last Saturday, May 17, The fight for the title of top scorer of Ligue 1 was at stake with both protagonists -Greenwood and Dembélé- fighting for the Pichichi. The English striker, former soccer player of Getafe, gave everything until the end, but his double in the victory of the Olympique de Marseille against Rennes (4-2) was not enough to consecrate as a maximum solo gunner. Dembélé did not see a door in the victory of the PSG against the Auxerre (3-1).
Dembélé, Pichichi of Ligue 1 with 21 goals.
Dembélé, ahead of 5 of the 7 tiebreaker criteria
The Parisian attacker finally took the recognition of the maximum scorer of the season, by imposing himself on English in the tiebreaker criteria established by Ligue 1. Both players ended with 21 goalswhich in principle would represent a technical draw. But The Ligue 1 regulation contemplates up to seven criteria to solve this type of situationsbeing the first the amount of penalties marked. The one who marks the least goals from the maximum penalty, expires in this criterion. Dembélé only turned one, while Greenwood added seven goals from eleven meters.
The balance leaned further from Dembélé side by analyzing the other criteria. Surpassed Greenwood in five of the seven: more assists (8 against 6), More different games in which he scored (14 against 17), Less minutes played (1,736 compared to 2,818), Better collective performance (84 PSG points against 65 of the OM), And less yellow cards (1 against 3). Neither of them was expelled this season in the domestic competition.
The last time Ligue 1 lived a similar tie 2019-20 seasoninterrupted by pandemic, when Mbappé and Ben Yedder shared the title of top scorer with 18 goals each. In the 2011-12 academic year it was also necessary to go to these criteria to unpack between Nene and Giroud. Dembélé is consolidating an exceptional year both individual and collective.
