2019/20 French Ligue 1 – Round 19

Highlighted changes in the league standings after the round
Paris St. Germain stays at the top of the league.
Marseille keeps the seven-point gap between themselves and the top spot.
Lille falls into fourth and is replaced by in third place by Rennes.
Bordeaux falls into the bottom-half of the league standings, from 7th to 13th.
Lyon goes from 8th to 12th.
Monaco rises from 9th to 7th.
Goal-difference has allowed Nimes to leap above Toulouse at the bottom end of the league standings.
Amiens drops into the relegation-playoff spot to replace Metz.
Nice climbs to the middle of the standings from 13th.

Ligue 1
Dijon 2-2 Metz
Goal Scorers Dijon – Romain Amalfitano 18′ Mama Balde 42′
Goal Scorers Metz – Habubiy Diakki 14′ Habib Maiga 90+2′

Marseille 3-1 Nimes
Goal Scorers Marseille – Sofiane Alakouch 46′(og) Dario Benedetto 65′ Dimitri Payet 81′
Goal Scorers Nimes – Anthony Briancon 90+2

Monaco 5-1 Lille
Goal Scorers Monaco – Gelson Martins 23′ Keita Balde 29′ Wissam Ben Yedder 53′ 65’Kmil Glik 90+3′
Goal Scorers Lille – Victor Osimhen 13′

Montpellier 4-0 Brest
Goal Scorers Montpellier – Gaëtan Laborde 13′ 56′ Teji Savanier 30′(pen) Florent Mollet 83′

Nantes 1-2 Angers
Goal Scorers Nantes – Ludovic Blas 17′
Goal Scorers Angers – Antonin Bobichon 50′ Farid El Melali 87′

Nice 3-0 Toulouse
Goal Scorers Nice – Malang Sarr 16′ Hichem Boudaoui 19′ Pierre Lees-Melou 40′

Paris St. Germain 4-1 Amiens
Goal Scorers Paris St. Germain – Kylian Mbappe 10′ 65′ Neymar 47′ Mauro Icardi 84′
Goal Scorers Amiens – Stiven Mendoza 70′

Reims 1-1 Lyon
Goal Scorers Reims – Mathieu Cafaro 44′
Goal Scorers Lyon – Lucas Tousart 9′

Rennes 1-0 Bordeaux
Goal Scorers Rennes – M’Baye Niang 82′

Strasbourg 2-1 Saint-Etienne
Goal Scorers Strasbourg – Ludovic Ajorque 22′ Adrien Thomasson 62′
Goal Scorers Saint-Etienne – Ryad Boudebouz 73′(pen)

Dijon and Metz shared the points when Habib Maiga scored in additional time to allow Metz to leave Dijon with a point from a ‘2-2’ draw.

A convincing win at home for Marseille against relegation battling Nimes.
Marseille holds on firmly to second-place and direct qualification to the Champions League as things stand.

Monaco crawled back from a goal down to trash Lille to a 5-1 score.
The results moved Monaco to 3 points away from Lille.

Montpellier widened the gap between themselves and Brest to 5 points after handing Brest a ‘4-0’ defeat.
A better way for Marseille to end the year after back to back league defeat.

Angers recovered the deficit in the second-half and picked up a win on the road against Nantes.
The ‘2-1’ victory ended a run of 4 winless matches for Angers, while denying Nantes a third straight league victory.

It was a convincing ‘3-0’ home victory for Nice against bottom-tabled Toulouse.

Paris St. Germain runs off with a dominant ‘4-1’ win against Amiens with Kylian Mbappe scoring his 10th goal of the league season by contributing a brace to his sides win.

Lyon is held to a point at Reims after both teams went into the half with a ‘1-1’ draw that neither side could improve.

Mbaye Niang scored the only goal of the match for Rennes to hand Bordeaux their third straight league defeat, while Rennes go on a 5-match winning streak in the league.

Three league defeats for Saint-Etienne after a ‘2-1’ defeat at Strasbourg. For Strasbourg, it three consecutive wins in the league.