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Insider's Ligue 1 Team of the Season, including a 17-year-old wonder kid, a Portuguese prodigy, and the world's most-hated FIFA player

  • Over the next two weeks, Insider will be revealing its Team of the Season for each of Europe's top five soccer leagues.
  • These are the English Premier League, Italy's Serie A, France's Ligue 1, Spain's La Liga, and the German Bundesliga.
  • Below is our selection for Ligue 1, which has been ended prematurely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Keep up to date with the series here.

France's Ligue 1 is the only one of Europe's top five leagues to have been ended prematurely amid the coronavirus pandemic.

After being halted in mid-March, it was announced on April 28 that the season would not resume. Paris Saint Germain was crowned champion for the seventh time in eight years, while Amiens and Toulouse were relegated.

Both of the latter have filed appeals against the decision, according to the BBC, whilst the president of Olympique Lyonnais, which finished seventh, Jean-Michel Aulas, said the verdict "devalued" French football.

Despite protests however, Maxime Dupuis of Eurosport France says there is unlikely to be a reversal.

"You can't say to PSG 'Oh, you're not champion anymore!", or to Marseille 'you're not in the Champions League anymore," Dupuis said. "Plus the prime minister said no."

So, with the season extremely unlikely to resume, Insider has decided it's time to reflect on which players impressed us most in the 28 (or in some cases, 27) games that have been played.

Below is our Ligue 1 Team of the Season — in a 3-4-1-2 formation to accommodate the plethora of attacking talent the division has to offer.

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