Second-place is up for grabs after 35 rounds of the French Ligue 1.

Ligue 1

MATCH RESULTS

Strasbourg 3-3 Paris St. Germain
Lens 2-2 Nantes
Rennes 2-0 Saint-Etienne
Troyes 3-0 Lille
Brest 2-0 Clermont Foot
Lorient 1-2 Reims
Monaco 2-0 Angers
Montpellier 2-2 Metz
Bordeaux 0-1 Nice
Marseille 0-3 Lyon

Three more rounds left to go and Rennes, Monaco, and Nice hit the 60-point mark to make Marseille uncomfortable.

As typical of the season, Paris St. Germain dropped points but no team was able to punish them for it.

Marseille’s grip on second place loosened after a 3-0 defeat at home against Lyon, while Rennes found the three points to keep Saint-Etienne in the bottom three.

Monaco is back in contention for second place after marking their 7th successive victory with a 2-0 win over Angers.

Nice joined the party with a narrow win against a relegation-bound Bordeaux.

A 10-man Brest opened a 13-point gap on Clermont with a 2-0 victory.

Lille was beaten after conceding three penalties that were converted by Troyes into game-winning goals. In addition to the defeat, Renato Sanches and Burak Yilmaz picked up red cards in the second half to see Lille end the game with 9 players.

With Saint-Etienne and Bordeaux being on the losing end of their respective fixtures, Metz survived relegation this weekend with a point from a 2-2 draw with Montpellier.

FRENCH LIGUE 1 STANDINGS AFTER 35 ROUNDS.
1| Paris Saint-Germain – 79 points
2| Marseille – 65 points
3| Rennes – 62 points
4| Monaco – 62 points
5| Nice – 60 points
6| Strasbourg – 57 points
7| Lyon – 55 points
8| Lens – 55 points
9| Nantes – 51 points
10| Lille – 51 points
11| Brest – 48 points
12| Reims – 43 points
13| Montpellier – 43 points
14| Troyes – 36 points
15| Angers – 35 points
16| Lorient – 34 points
17| Clermont – 33 points
18| Saint-Étienne – 31 points
19| Bordeaux – 27 points
20| Metz – 25 points