ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC scored four second-half goals as Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) clinched its fourth straight French league title in style, pulverizing last-place Troyes 9-0 Sunday to become champion with a record eight games to spare.

    Forward Edinson Cavani scored twice, while midfielders Javier Pastore and Adrien Rabiot also scored in addition to an own goal.

    PSG has lost just once this season — away to Lyon last month — and leads second-place Monaco by 25 points.

    Cash-rich PSG, bankrolled by funds from Qatari investor QSI, has dominated so much that it has lost only once in any domestic competition over the past calendar year.

    “The players have been professional all season. From the first game we said we would set a pace that others would find hard to keep up with and no teams could,” PSG coach Laurent Blanc said. “It’s amazing to win the title after 30 games.”

    Blanc will keep a close eye on his players in the next 48 hours — mainly because he’ll be with them. “We can celebrate for the next two days — and I think I will celebrate with them,” he said. “But then we have to get back to work.”

    PSG is on course to defend its domestic treble and the club’s astonishing goal difference of plus 62 — 77 goals scored, 15 conceded — is more than four times better than the next-best Lyon’s.

    Ibrahimovic leads the scoring charts with 27 league goals and is on track to beat his career best tally of 30 — set three seasons ago with PSG. He is PSG’s all-time leading scorer with 141 goals, including 102 in the league in just 115 games.

    Monaco drew 2-2 at home to Reims on Friday night to hand the initiative to PSG, and it did not take long to put matters beyond doubt with three goals inside the first 20 minutes.

    The first goal came in the 14th from an error by Troyes defender Matthieu Saunier, whose back pass landed at the feet of Cavani and he beat goalkeeper Matthieu Dreyer at the second attempt.

    Four minutes later, Ibrahimovic brilliantly back-heeled the ball through the midfield to Pastore, who then dribbled past two defenders before expertly dinking the ball over Dreyer.

    Rabiot stroked home into an empty net a minute later after Cavani’s shot was saved.

    Ibrahimovic had been frustrated in the first half, but set matters straight with a hat trick inside 11 minutes in the second.

    One minute after the restart, he controlled a pass on the edge of the area, held off a defender and slammed the ball low past Dreyer.

    He was celebrating again on 52 minutes, volleying in a cross from winger Angel Di Maria from an awkward angle for 5-0.

    (SD-Agencies)