Ligue 1
Paris St.Germain’s lead is reduced from 12 to 10 points.
Marseille opens up an 11-point gap between the top two and the rest of the league.
Despite Rennes suffering defeat, Marseille’s victory over Lille allowed Rennes to keep third place in the standings.
Monaco is touching distance from the top 4 after beating Montpellier.
Lyon falls out of the top half after a draw with Strasbourg.
Nice move into the top half of the standings after beating bottom tabled Toulouse.
Nimes moved out of the bottom three with a win against Angers.
Leading goalscorers in the league
Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco) – 16 goals
Kylian Mbappe (Paris St. Germain) – 15 goals
Moussa Dembele (Lyon) – 13 goals
Monaco 1-0 Montpellier
Goal Scorers Monaco – Islam Slimani 52′
Amiens 4-4 Paris St. Germain
Goal Scorers Amiens – Sehrou Guirassy 5′ 90+2′ Gael Kakuta 29′ Fousseni Diabate 40′
Goal Scorers Paris St. Germain – Ander Herrera 45+!’ Nianzou Kouassi 60′ 65′ Mauro Icardi 74′
Bordeaux 2-2 Dijon
Goal Scorers Bordeaux – Ui-Jo Hwang 35′ Jimmy Briand 64′
Goal Scorers Dijon – Mounir Chouiar 16′ 72′
Nantes 0-0 Metz
Nimes 1-0 Angers
Goal Scorers Nimes – Moussa Kone 80′
Toulouse 0-2 Nice
Goal Scorers Nice – Pierre Lees-Melou 12′ Christophe Herelle 90+6′
Lyon 1-1 Strasbourg
Goal Scorers Lyon – Bertrand Traore 21′
Goal Scorers Strasbourg – Kevin Zohi 42′
Brest 3-2 Saint-Etienne
Goal Scorers Brest – Paul Lasne 20′ Gaetan Charbonnier 38′ Irvin Cardona 43′
Goal Scorers Saint-Etienne – Denis Bouanga 54′(pen) Lois Diony 69′
Reims 1-0 Rennes
Goal Scorers Reims – El Bilal Toure 72′(pen)
Lille 1-2 Marseille
Goal Scorers Lille – Victor Osimhen 51’
Goal Scorers Marseille – Reinildo 67’(og) Dario Benedetto 69’
Ligue 1
Islam Slimani’s decided the match for Monaco against Montpellier with his goal in the 57th-minute.
Monaco used the victory to leap above Montpellier in points and position in the league.
Amiens went up 3-0 on PSG but allowed PSG to score three corners to get level. Then PSG rallied to take a 4-3 lead. And then scoring a 91st minute equaliser allowed Amiens to keep a point. It’s one of those matches where it is difficult to say which of the teams is happier with the final score.
Mounir Chouiar opened and closed the scoring for the match to ensure that Dijon left Bordeaux with a point.
Five league matches unbeaten for Bordeaux.
Nantes were held to a goalless draw at home by Metz.
A fourth straight win in the league for Nimes after Moussa Kone scored in the 80th-minute for a victory against a 10-man Angers side.
Toulouse finished the man with 9 players after having a player sent off in each half.
Nice found an early goal to take the lead and a goal in the final minutes of additional time to ensure a win against bottom table Toulouse.
It’s 15 defeats in 16 straight matches without a win for Toulouse.(In all competitions)
Lyon couldn’t keep their lead; and were held at home to a point by Strasbourg.
Its four straight league matches without a win for Lyon (2L 2D).
Saint-Etienne couldn’t completely recover from going 3 goals down in the first half against Bret.
They found 2 goals in the second half to end the match in a ‘3-2’ defeat; making it their fourth straight league defeat.
Rennes were unable to get a win that would have allowed them to take advantage of the ‘Lille vs Marseille’ result. Rennes lost ‘1-0’ at Reims.
Marseille got more comfortable in second place after bouncing back from a goal down In the second half to leave Lille with three points.
