IT’S STILL A THREE-HORSE RACE IN LIGUE 1. KYLIAN MBAPPE RISE TO THE TOP OF THE SCORING CHART.
It was a narrow win but Lille got the 3 points to keep up with Paris St. Germain.
The ‘top four’ teams were all on the winning end of the score.
LEADING GOALSCORERS
Kylian Mbappé (Paris St. Germain) – 14 goals
Boulaye Dia (Reims) – 12 goals
Memphis Depay (Lyon) – 12 goals
Kevin Volland (Monaco) – 10 goals
Ludovic Ajorque (Strasbourg) – 10 goals
PARIS ST. GERMAIN 4-0 MONTPELLIER
Goal Scorers – Paris St. Germain – Kylian Mbappe 34′ 63′ Neymar 60′ Mauro Icardi 61′
LENS 0-1 NICE
Goal Scorers – Nice – Youcef Atal 49′
MONACO 3-1 MARSEILLE
Goal Scorers – Monaco – Guillermo Maripan 48′ Aurelien Tchouameni 75′ Stevan Jovetic 90+1′
Goal Scorers – Marseille – Nemanja Radonjic 12′
BORDEAUX 2-1 ANGERS
Goal Scorers – Bordeaux – Ui-Jo Hwang 8′ 11′
Goal Scorers – Angers – Angelo Fulgini 39′
DIJON 1-1 STRASBOURG
Goal Scorers – Dijon – Senou Coulibaly 63′
Goal Scorers – Strasbourg – Ludovic Ajorque 51′
METZ 2-0 NANTES
Goal Scorers – Metz – Aaron Iseka 35′ farid Boulaya 90+4′
REIMS 1-0 BREST
Goal Scorers – Reims – Nathaneal Mbuku 40′
RENNES 0-1 LILLE
Goal Scorers – Lille – Jonathan David 16′
SAINT-ETIENNE 0-5 LYON
Goal Scorers – Lyon – Tino Kadewere 16′ 68′ Marcelo 36′ 59′ Denis Bouanga 82′(og)
Kylian Mbappe scored a brace (opening and the closing goal of the game) in Paris St. Germain’s 4-0 win against a 10-man Montpellier. Three goals in three second half minutes from three attacking players killed off the match; Neymar in the 60th-minute, Mauro Icardi in the 61st, and Mbappe in the 63rd.
Nice won their first in 6 games after a 1-0 victory at Lens.
Marseille are now without a win in their last 5 games; this includes three successive defeats in the league; four successive defeats if the Super Cup final is included. Monaco found three goals in the second half to come from a goal down to beat Marseille. The result marked 4 straight wins for Monaco.
Bordeaux leaped above Angers in the league standings. Ui-Jo Hwang scored two in the early parts of the match to guide Bordeaux to a 2-1 home win against Angers.
Strasbourg had to settle for a point at Dijon after a 1-1 draw in the second half.
Metz moved on from a win against Lyon with another at home against Nantes. The 2-0 defeat was the 12th straight game without a win for Nantes. (5L 7D)
Nimes vs Lorient was postponed by COVID.
Reims bounced back from defeat at Lille with a narrow win at home against Brest. The 1-0 result allowed Reims to move 2 points from Brest in the league.
Lille won their third game in a row; and a third game in a row won by a goal margin. Jonathan David’s goal in the 16th-minute was all that Lille needed to pick up three points from Rennes.
A brace from Tino Kadewere and Marcelo lead Lyon to a big derby win at Saint-Etienne. It finished 5-0 win for Lyon to make up for the points dropped in their previous two matches.