Brest’s fairy tale with a happy and spectacular ending! The club from Brittany, for the first time in history, qualified for a European club competition and straight away – the Champions League! Lille had everything in their hands before the last round, they had to beat Nice and “defend” a considerable advantage in goal difference (had +18 against Brest’s +16), but instead of a walk through the park we saw cinematic twists and turns.Lille were losing to Nice, which resulted in Brest taking third place with two quick goals in Toulouse. For a long time, the scoreboard at the Municipal shown 0-2, but Lille managed to equalize in the 55th minute through Hákon Arnar Haraldsson. Brest still held on to the third position, however, Les Dogues went all in and 16 minutes before the end, they turned the game around with a goal by Benjamin Andre.##EDITORS_CHOICE##In that moment, Brest slipped to fourth place and were a goal short for the Champions League. Lille were in third place until the 90th minute, and in the first minute of stoppage time Kenny Lala, the right back, scored the third goal for Brest.Paulo Fonseca’s men had nowhere to go, they again had to go for all or nothing and instead of scoring – they conceded a goal. For the second time, everything turned around. There were still five minutes of stoppage time left to play in Lille, but the guests from Nice scored a new goal. However, it turned out to be disallowed. The match ended 2-2, so the Brest players could start a big celebration…Brest thus became one of the most beautiful stories this season. Despite two draws in the last two rounds and a fall that many predicted, an extraordinary resurrection took place. Mahdi Camara, a lad brought in this summer for 3,000,000 euros, scored the first and set up the third goal in Toulouse, while Jordan Amavi ‘put a bow on it’ with a beautiful free kick goal.The price of Camara should be mentioned for the simple reason that he was Brest’s only ‘big’ purchase this season. Along with him, the money was invested only in Bradley Locko—500,000 euros.So, the team that finished 14th in the table last year and lost its best player during the summer transfer window (Franck Honorat went to Mönchengladbach for 8,000,000 euros), was upgraded with 3,500,000 and managed to qualify for the first season of the reformed Champions League.Hats off, what else can be said…Lille will have to go through the third round of Champions League qualification, Nice will go to the Europa League as fifth, Lyon as sixth (regardless of what they do in the Cup final against Paris), while Lens will go to the Conference League.Lyon secured a victory against Strasbourg (2-1) with a goal by Alexandre Lacazette in the sixth minute of stoppage time. Lens’ draw resulted in them slipping to seventh place.It was also exciting in the battle for survival, where Metz and Lorient finished with the same number of points and the same goal difference (-23), thus the greater number of goals in the away matches decided. As a guest, Metz won 3-2, and Lorient won 2-1.If Lorient had scored another goal last night against Clermont (5-0), the would have survived in the French top tier. This way, they are downgraded to Ligue 2, and Metz will have a chance to save their elite status through the play-out, where the best team from the second division play-off awaits.LIGUE 1 – 34th (FINAL) MATCHDAYSundayLe Havre – Marseille 1-2 (0-0)/Bajo 90+7pen – Aubameyang 64, Murillo 77/Lans – Montpellier 2-2 (2-0)/Wahi 4, Machado 45+2 – Mama 58, Mincarelli 7/Lille – Nice 2-2 (0-1)/Haraldson 55, Andre 74 – Laborde 10, Lotomba 90+4/Lorient – Clermont 5-0 (2-0)/Abergel 38, Bamba 42, Bunani 54, Dieng 63, 90/Metz – PSG 0-2 (0-2)/Soler 7, Lee 12/Monaco – Nantes 4-0 (3-0)/Ben Yedder 6, Kehrer 10, Kamara 24, Ben Segir 61 /Lyon – Strasbourg 2-1 (1-0)/Lacazette 39, 90+6 – Diarra 63/Reims – Rennais 2-1 (0-0)/Abdelhamid 48, Akieme 80 – Rider 90+4/Toulouse – Brest 0-3 (0-0)/Camara 48, Amavi 54, Lala 90/
