Check out Part II of our official look back at 2009 – the year that was: the start of the 2009-10 campaign...

PSG started the new Ligue 1 campaign with plenty of ambition. Now under the direction of Antoine ‘Golden Helmet’ Kombouaré, the club signed Grégory Coupet, Mevlut Erding and Christophe Jallet and all three recruits made an impact in the opening stages of the season. Paris made a near-perfect start to the campaign, winning three (Le Mans 3-1, Valenciennes 3-2, Lille 3-0) and drawing one (Montpellier 1-1) of their opening four matches.

But things turned sour in the following weeks. The wins over Sochaux (4-1) and Boulogne (1-0, in the League Cup) couldn’t cover the points dropped against Monaco (2-0), Toulouse, Nice and Marseille (all 1-0) and Lyon, Lorient and Nancy (1-1). Yet the Parisian side’s ability to produce good football, suggested the best was still to come...

Towards the end of November, PSG hosted the league leaders Auxerre, 1-0... but lost goalkeeper Coupet with a broken ankle. Antoine Kombouaré’s men went on with things with a stunning 5-2 demolition of Boulogne and narrowly lost, 1-0, to the champions Bordeaux. Les Parisiens fought back and hammered Saint-Etienne a week later at the Parc (3-0). Lens (1-1) and Rennes (0-1) took the tarnish off a good run of results.

On the eve of Christmas, and to bring the curtain down on 2009, the capital club entertained Grenoble and romped away to a comfortable 4-0 victory - moving back into the top half of the table in the process. It all bodes well for a busy January 2010 with a run of four matches in ten days (Aubervilliers Jan. 10, Guingamp Jan. 13, Lille Jan. 16 and Monaco Jan. 20).

Check out Part I of our 2009 Retrospective by clicking here.