French Ligue 1
Round 12
November 2, 2018
Paris St. Germain 2–1 Lille
Paris St. Germain – Kylain Mbappe 70’ Neymar 84’
Lille – Nicolas Pepe 90+3’
November 3, 2018
Lyon 1–1 Bordeaux
Lyon – Houssem Aouar 45’
Bordeaux – Andreas Cornelius 73’
Caen 1–2 Rennes
Caen -Enzo Crivelli 90+1’
Rennes – Ismaila Sarr 60’ 69’
Dijon 0–4 Nimes
Nimes – Denis Bouanga 5’ 65’ Teji Savanier 30’ Anthony Briancon 86’
Nice 1–0 Amiens
Nice – Prince Desir Gouano 38’)(o.g)
Reims 1–0 Monaco
Reims – Mathieu Cafaro 24’
Strasbourg 1–1 Toulouse
Strasbourg – Lebo Mothiba 51’
Toulouse – Max-Alain Gradel 72’
November 4, 2018
Nantes 5–0 Guingamp
Nantes – Emiliano Sala 43’(pen) 83’ Valentin Roniger 63’ Abdoulaye Toure – 70’ Andrei Griotto 78’
Saint-Etienne 4–3 Angers
Saint-Etienne – Lios Diony 26’ Mathieu Debuchy 45+1 Vincent Manceau 17’(og) Romain Hamouma 89’
Angers – Mateo Pavlovic 24’ Flavein Tait 45+4’ Stephane Bahoken 71’
Montpellier 3-0 Marseille
Montpellier – Gaetan Laborde 52’ 62’ Paul Bastien Lasne 70’
36/36 points.
Could PSG achieve the improbable and make it 114/114 point season?
Neymar and Mbappe continue their goalscoring in Ligue 1 to lead Paris St. Germain to their 12th win of the season. 100% start to their season and a record-making win over a Lille team that came to the fixture as the second best team in the league.
It took 70 minutes of game time for Paris St. Germain to find the break-through to get the winning goal. Neymar assisted Kylian Mbappe for the opening goal of the match to give Paris St.Germain the deserved lead. Mbappe returned the favor later with and Neymar assured the team of a victory with a second goal. 11 points clear at the top of the league.
The results around the league won’t have changed Lyon’s position in the standings even if they had managed to hold on to their lead against Bordeaux to get a victory at home. Lyon missed out on the opportunity to close in on the top-three in the standings when Andreas Cornelius scored for Bordeaux in the second-half to deny Lyon a home victory.
Rennes left Caen with three points after two goals in the second half. Caen is left at the tip of the relegation zone after making it 4 winless matches that consist of three defeats.
Recently-promoted Nimes tore apart Dijon after a couple of goals in each half to end a streak of 9 straight matches without a win.
Nice protected their first-half lead from an ‘owngoal’ to beat Amiens and make it a consecutive victory in the league.
Recently promoted Reims extended Monaco’s winless run. Reims took a ‘1-0’ win at home.
Despite having to protect the ‘1-0’ lead with 10-men for about 20 minutes after Alaixy Romao was red-carded off in the 50th minute, Reims was able to extend Monaco’s winless run to 14 competitive matches (11 league matches)
Against the run of play but Toulouse gets a point at Strasbourg.
Nantes turned on the style against Guingamp in a 5-0 trashing that helped fasten Guingamp to the bottom of the league table.
Saint-Etienne stayed close to the current top-four in the league when they took the maximum points at home after finish a 7-goal thrilling match on the right end of a ‘4-3’ score against Angers
Marseille suffers back-to-back defeat to top-four teams in the league while failing to register a goal.
Montpellier established their place in the top end of the table after handing Marseille a ‘3-0’ defeat to close the round. Gaetan Laborde brace and Paul Bastien Lasne goal gave Marseille the win to climb to second in the standings while pushing Marseille further away from top-4.
