MATCH RESULTS
Nice [ 1-1 ] Auxerre
Lens [ 1-1 ] Lille
Paris St. Germain [ 4-2 ] Nantes
Troyes [ 2-2 ] Monaco
Montpellier [ 5-0 ] Angers
Reims [ 1-0 ] Ajaccio
Strasbourg [ 0-1 ] Brest
Toulouse [ 0-1 ] Clermont Foot
Lyon [ 0-0 ] Lorient
Rennes [ 0-1 ] Marseille
Marseille got a win in the final match of the round to keep the gap at the top of the table at 8 points.
Paris St. Germain leads the charge, while Marseille, Monaco, and Lens do their best to close in.
Both Monaco and Lens dropped points in a draw from their matches. Monaco at Troyes, and Lens at home against Lille.
Reims moved up two positions to 8th, pushing Lorient and Lyon a position down.
Lorient and Lyon shared the points in a goalless draw, while Reims sealed a narrow victory over Ajaccio.
Brest helped their relegation battle with a win against fellow relegation-threatened Strasbourg.
Angers remain in 20th place unmoved after another thrashing from Montpellier.
LEAGUE STANDINGS
1 | Paris Saint-Germain ( 26 ) – 63 points
2 | Marseille ( 26 ) – 55 points
3 | Monaco ( 26 ) – 51 points
4 | Lens ( 26 ) – 51 points
5 | Rennes ( 26 ) – 46 points
6 | Lille ( 26 ) – 45 points
7 | Nice ( 26 ) – 42 points
8 | Reims ( 26 ) – 40 points
9 | Lorient ( 26 ) – 40 points
10 | Lyon ( 26 ) – 39 points
11 | Clermont ( 26 ) – 34 points
12 | Toulouse ( 26 ) – 32 points
13 | Montpellier ( 26 ) – 30 points
14 | Nantes ( 26 ) – 28 points
15 | Brest ( 26 ) – 23 points
16 | Strasbourg ( 26 ) – 22 points
17 | Auxerre ( 26 ) – 22 points
18 | Ajaccio ( 26 ) – 21 points
19 | Troyes ( 26 ) – 20 points
20 | Angers ( 26 ) – 10 points
Mar 3.
Nice [ 1-1 ] Auxerre
Nice – Gaetan Laborde 45+1′
Auxerre – Gauthier Heim 36′
Mar 4.
Lens [ 1-1 ] Lille
Lens – Jose Fonte 41′(og)
Lille – Jonathan David 69′
Paris St. Germain [ 4-2 ] Nantes
Paris St. Germain – Lionel Messi 12′ Haouen Hadjam 17′(og) Danilo Pereira 60′ Kylian Mbappe 90+2′
Nantes – Ludovic Blas 31′ Ignatius Ganago 38′
Mar 5.
Troyes [ 2-2 ] Monaco
Troyes – Rominigue Kouae 31′ Ike Ugbo90+1′
Monaco – Wissam Ben Yedder 81′ 83′
Montpellier [ 5-0 ] Angers
Montpellier – Whabi Khazri 2′ Teji Savanier 25′(pen) 51′ Faitout Maouassa 45+3′ Elye Wahi 73′
Reims [ 1-0 ] Ajaccio
Reims – Jens -Lys Cajuste 90+5′
Strasbourg [ 0-1 ] Brest
Brest – Franck Honorat 45+2′
Toulouse [ 0-1 ] Clermont Foot
Clermont Foot – Said-Eddine Khaoui 76′
Rennes [ 0-1 ] Marseille
Marseille – Sead Kolasinac 57′
Nice dropped points at home to Auxerre.
Gaetan Laborde made up for his missed penalty by scoring a header five minutes later to get Nice level on the score before halftime. It was only good enough to get Nice a point against Auxerre.
Nice remain unbeaten in their last nine matches 7 wins and 2 draws.
Auxerre is five league games unbeaten. 2 wins 3 draws.
Points shared between Lens and Lille.
Mbappe becomes the record topscorer of Paris St. Germain with a goal that insured Paris St. Germain’s win in a 4-2 victory over Nantes. Paris St. Germain blew a 2-goal lead in the first half but restored order in the second half.
The best Monaco could do after a ‘3-0’ defeat at home to Nice was a point from a ‘2-2’ draw at Troyes.
Wissam Ben Yedder scored two goals in quick succession to get Monaco from a goal down to lead 2-1 at Troyes but a late goal from Ike Ugbo in the first minute of the final added time got Troyes to avoid defeat and pick up a point at the end of 5 straight defeats. Troyes is without a win in their last 10 matches, 8 league defeats.
Angers haven’t had a win in the league since September 18, 2022. That is 18 league matches, 16 defeats. Their latest result was a 5-0 thrashing at Montpellier.
Reims is unbeaten in their last four league matches (3 wins and a adraw).
A goal from Jens-Lys Cajuste in the 5th minute of the final added time allowed Reims to take the maximum points at home against an Ajaccio side that was looking for a consecutive league victory after ending a 3-game losing run in the last round against Troyes.
Brest won their first league game in 6 to also end a run of 3 straight league defeats. Franck Honorat’s goal in the added time sent Brest to the halftime break with a 1-0 lead over Strasbourg that stood till the final whistle.
A 1-0 win at Toulouse was Clermont Foot’s first win in 7 matches. It was also Toulouse’s third straight league defeat since beating Rennes 3-1.
Lyon was held to a goalless draw at home by Lorient.
Marseille followed Le Classique’s defeat in the league and elimination from the Coupe de France with a narrow but important 1-0 win at Rennes. The result ended Rennes 3-game winning streak that included two league matches.
