French Ligue 1
Round 20
Briefings 
Lyon comes from behind to steal 3rd place from Saint-Etienne.
Kylian Mbappe scored a hattrick to climb to the top of the goalscoring list with 17 goals.
Top 3 goals scorers in the league are all from Paris St. Germain – Kylain Mbappe (17) Edinson Cavani (14) Neymar (13)
Monaco’s troubles pile up.
January 18, 2019
Lille 2-1 Amiens
Lille – Rafael Leo 45+2’ Xeka 85’
Amiens – Juan Otero 5’
January 19, 2019
Paris St. Germain 9-0 Guingamp
Paris St. Germain – Neymar 12’ 68’ Kylian Mbappe 38’ 45’ 80’ Edinson Cavani 59’ 66’ 75’ Thomas Meunier 83’
Monaco 1-5 Strasbourg
Monaco – Radamel Falcao -22’
Strasbourg – Ludovic Ajorque12’ 68’ Adrien Thomasson 17’ Ibrahima Sissoko 64’ Youssouf Fofana 90+4’
Nimes 0-1 Toulouse
Toulouse – Yaya Sanogo 42’
Reims 1-1 Nice
Reims – Remi Oudin 12’
Nice – Remi Walter 90+9(pen)
January 20, 2019
Rennes 0–0 Montpellier
Angers 1–0 Nantes
Angers – Angelo Fulgini 90+4’
Caen 0–1 Marseille
Marseille – Morgan Sanson 47’
Bordeaux 1–0 Dijon
Bordeaux – Andreas Cornelius 77’
Saint-Etienne 1-2 Lyon
Saint-Etienne – Romain Hamouma 21’
Lyon – Nabil Fekir 65’(pen) Moussa Dembele 90+5’
Nicolas Pepe missed an opportunity to get his team on level terms earlier in the first half, but Lille gripped firmly to second place in the league after coming from behind to get a home victory against Amiens.
It might be their revenge for what happened in the French League Cup, but Paris St. Germain didn’t hold back against bottom table Guingamp when the sides met again after Guingamp eliminated Paris St. Germain at the quarter-final stage of the French League Cup just 10 days prior. Both Edinson Cavani and Kylian Mbappe scored a hattrick, while Neymar scored a brace after getting the match opening goal. PSG’s 13 point lead remains intact.
Angers win their first in 7 league matches after a 1-0 victory at home against a Nantes side that is falling down the league table after a decent start to their season. Nantes is on a 3-match losing run.
A 10-man Dijon team remained in the relegation zone after a defeat at Bordeaux.
An early red card to Monaco’s Naldo didn’t help the team. Monaco was on the wrong end of a 5-1 score after getting thrashed at home by Strasbourg.
Toulouse moved a point away from Nimes after a 1-0 victory.
A penalty awarded deep into the additional time allowed Nice to pull level and take a point at Reims. The equalizing goal for Nice was clocked in at +9 minutes pass the regulation time.
Rennes and Montpellier shared the points.
Morgan Sanson‘s headed in the only goal of the match to give Marseille their first win in their last 10 competitive matches.
Lyon was starring at a run of 4 winless league matches when Romain Hanouma gave Saint-Etienne a first-half lead that lasted until Nabil Fekir got them level from the spot on the 65th minute Moussa Dembele score the late winner to hand Lyon a victory that saw them leap over Saint-Etienne and replace them as 3rd in the league standings.
