The French Ligue 1 after 23 rounds

FRENCH LIGUE 1
Nice defeat to Clermon dropped them a position to 3rd, while Marseille takes the second spot in the standing by thrashing Angers in the round opening fixture.
Paris Saint-Germain’s lead at the top grew by two points to 13 after getting a road win against the defending champions.

The occupants of the ‘top 4’ spots in the league standings remained the same/
Montpellier dropped a position to 7th after defeat to bottom tabled Saint-Etienne.

All the teams in the relegation zone at the start of the round avoided defeat over the round.

Lorient and Bordeaux swapped positions in their battle to avoid relegation.
A win against Lens moved Lorient to positions up to 17th.
Bordeaux dropped to 19th after a hammering from Reims.

MATCH RESULTS
Marseille 5-2 Angers
Saint-Etienne 3-1 Montpellier
Monaco 2-0 Lyon
Lorient 2-0 Lens
Nice 0-1 Clermont Foot
Riems 5-0 Bordeaux
Strasbourg 1-0 Nantes
Troyes 0-0 Metz
Rennes 2-0 Brest
Lille 1-5 Paris St. Germain

LEAGUE STANDINGS
1| Paris Saint-Germain – 56 points
2| Marseille – 43 points
3| Nice – 42 points
4| Strasbourg – 38 points
5| Rennes – 37 points
6| Monaco – 36 points
7| Montpellier – 34 points
8| Lyon – 34 points
9| Lens – 33 points
10| Nantes – 32 points
11| Lille – 32 points
12| Angers – 29 points
13| Brest – 28 points
14| Reims – 27 points
15| Clermont – 24 points
16| Troyes – 21 points
17| Lorient – 20 points
18| Metz – 20 points
19| Bordeaux – 20 points
20| Saint-Etienne – 18 points


MARSEILLE 5-2 ANGERS
Arkadiusz Milik contributed a hat rick to Marseille’s win over Angers.
Marseille needed this victory as a response it. the defeat to Lyon in their previous match.

SAINT-ETIENNE 3-1 MONTPELLIER
A remarkable comeback by Saint-Etienne to avoid defeat against Montpellier.
Montpellier was leading till the 82nd minute and didn’t start losing until the 90th minute.

REIMS 5-0 BORDEAUX
Bordeaux is making it a habit of being involved in high-scoring matches.
Their last three league games have produced 18 goals which only three have been to their benefit.

rennes 6- 0 bordeaux
bordeaux 4-3 strasbourg
reims 5- 0 bordeaux

On the other hand, it was Reims first league win in 5 matches, with their last victory against another relegation zoned team [Saint-Etienne].

NICE 0-1 CLERMONT
It was the first consecutive league victory for Clermont since the start of the season.
Nice followed up knocking out PSG from the Coupe de France with a defeat to Clermont Foot.

LILLE 1-5 PARIS ST. GERMAIN
PSG took a 3-1 lead into the break, with Danilo Pereira scoring a goal in each half to help his team that the three points from Lille.
Lille leads the bottom half of the league table after 23 rounds.