French Ligue 1 after Round 31

FRENCH LIGUE 1

MONACO 4-0 METZ
Goal Scorers –
Monaco – Cesc Fabregas 50′(pen) Kevin Volladn 52′ Wiass Ben Yedder 77′ 89′

PARIS ST. GERMAIN 0-1 LILLE
Goal Scorers –
Lille – Jonathan David 20′

LENS 1-1 LYON
Goal Scorers –
Lens – Jonathan Lauss 65′
Lyon – Lucas Paqueta 81′

ANGERS 1-1 MONTPELLIER
Goal Scorers –
Angers – Stéphane Bahoken 72′
Montpellier – Stephy Mavididi 47′

BORDEAUX 2-3 STRASBOURG
Goal Scorers –
Bordeaux -Paul Baysse 36′ Ui-Jo Hwang 45+2′
Strasbourg – Lamin Kone 6′ Habibou Diallo 21′ Ludovic Ajorque 30′ (pen)

LORIENT 1-0 BREST
Goal Scorers –
Lorient – Laurent Abergel 45′



NANTES 1-2 NICE
Goal Scorers –
Nantes – Abdoulaye Touré 32′
Nice – Kasper Dolberg 11′(pen) 29′

REIMS 2-2 RENNES
Goal Scorers –
Reims – Boulaye Dia 60′ Konan 81′
Rennes – Sehrou Guirassy 75′(pen) 83′

NÎMES 0-2 SAINT-ETIENNE
Goal Scorers –
Saint-Etienne – Wahbi Khazri 23′ Denis Bouanga 66′

MARSEILLE 2-0 DIJON
Goal Scorers –
Marseille – Leonardo Balerdi 45+1′ Alvaro Gonzalez 79′

EIGHT MORE ROUND TO GO. CAN LILLE DO IT?
Monaco moved up to 3rd place while Paris St. Germain dropped to 2nd.
Lille takes a 3-point lead in the title race.
Lyon dropped a position to 4th.

The three teams at the bottom of the league table stayed where they were after all suffering defeat over the round.

LEADING GOALSCORERS
Kylian Mbappe (Paris St. Germain) – 20 goals
Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco) – 15 goals

It was a consecutive 4-0 league win for Monaco. Wissam Ben Yedder closed the scoring with two goals, as Monaco closed in the title race through a 4-0 win against Metz.

Lille beat Paris St. Germain to take a 3-point lead in the French Ligue 1 title race.

The best Lyon could do after defeat to Paris St. Germain was to escape defeat against Lens. Lucas Paqueta’s 81st minute goal allowed Lyon to leave with a point. A win would’ve gotten Lyon even on points with Paris St. Germain.

Angers did enough for a point but failed to get the win to close the gap in points between themselves and Montpellier.

Strasbourg picked up three points at Bordeaux by getting the majority of the five goals scored in the opening half. It finished a 3-2 win for Strasbourg, allowing them to equal Bordeaux in points accumulated after 31 matches.

Lorinet moved three points from Brest with a 1-0 win.

Kasper Dolberg’s brace was enough for Nice to leave Nantes with all three points.

Rennes left Reims with a point after Sehrou Guirassy scored a goal to get Rennes on level terms on two occasions.

Saint-Etienner bounced back from 4-0 defeat to Monaco with a 2-0 win at Nimes.
Marseille bounced back from 3-0 win at Nice with a 2-0 win against bottom-tabled Dijon.