MATCH RESULTS
Lille [ 3-3 ] Lyon
Auxerre [ 0-0 ] Rennes
Brest [ 1-2 ] Paris St. Germain
Clermont Foot [ 0-4 ] Lens
Ajaccio [ 0-1 ] Montpellier
Angers [ 0-2 ] Toulouse
Nantes [ 2-2 ] Nice
Lorient [ 2-0 ] Troyes
Monaco [ 0-1 ] Reims
Marseille [ 2-2 ] Strasbourg
11 rounds left of the French Ligue 1 season.
Paris St. Germain’s lead grew to 10 points (+2) after their late win against Brest was matched with Marseille blowing a 2-goal win in the dying minutes of their match with Strasbourg.
Marseille held on to second place, with Lens as the latest threat to their position.
Lens moved up a position to 3rd, while Monaco dropped to 4th.
Lens were winners at Clemont, while Monaco was beaten at home by Reims.
The bottom three teams at the start of the round remain as they were in the points tally.
LEAGUE STANDINGS
1 | Paris Saint-Germain ( 27 ) – 66 points
2 | Marseille ( 27 ) – 56 points
3 | Lens ( 27 ) – 54 points
4 | Monaco ( 27 ) – 51 points
5 | Rennes ( 27 ) – 47 points
6 | Lille ( 27 ) – 46 points
7 | Nice ( 27 ) – 43 points
8 | Reims ( 27 ) – 43 points
9 | Lorient ( 27 ) – 43 points
10 | Lyon ( 27 ) – 40 points
11 | Clermont ( 27 ) – 37 points
12 | Toulouse ( 27 ) – 35 points
13 | Montpellier ( 27 ) – 33 points
14 | Nantes ( 27 ) – 29 points
15 | Strasbourg ( 27 ) – 23 points
16 | Brest ( 27 ) – 23 points
17 | Auxerre ( 27 ) – 23 points
18 | Ajaccio ( 27 ) – 21 points
19 | Troyes ( 27 ) – 20 points
20 | Angers ( 27 ) – 10 points
Mar 10.
Lille [ 3-3 ] Lyon
Lille – Jonathan David 46′ 61′(pen) 79′(pen)
Lyon – Bradley Barcola 64′ Alexandre Lacazette 83′ 89′
Mar 11.
Brest [ 1-2 ] Paris St. Germain
Brest – Franck Honorat 43′
Paris St. Germain – Carlos Soler 37′ Kylian Mbappe 90′
Mar 12.
Clermont Foot [ 0-4 ] Lens
Lens – Ikoma Openda 30′ 34′ 35′ Alexis Claude 76′
Ajaccio [ 0-1 ] Montpellier
Montpellier – Elye Wahi 68′
Angers [ 0-2 ] Toulouse
Toulouse – Mikkel Desler 37′ Thijs Dallinga 46′
Nantes [ 2-2 ] Nice
Nantes – Moussa Sissoko 30′ Mostafa Mohamed 87′
Nice – Terem Moffi 4′ Youssouf Ndayishimiye 70′
Lorient [ 2-0 ] Troyes
Lorient – Ahmadou Dieng 8′ Stephane Diarra 90+2′
Monaco [ 0-1 ] Reims
Reims – Folarin Balogun 51′
Marseille [ 2-2 ] Strasbourg
Marseille – Chancel Mbemba 49′ Alexis Sanchez 76′(pen)
Strasbourg – Jean Aholou 88′ 89′
It was Lacazette’s handball that gave Lille a penalty to widen the lead by two goals but Lacazette made up for his error by scoring two goals to get Lyon a point at Lille. 6 goals split evenly between the two clubs, with Jonathan David picking up all of Lille’s three goals.
A late goal from Kylian Mbappe got Paris St. Germain three points at Brest in a 2-1 win. After defeat in Munich exited them out of the Champions League, this was an important win for Paris St. Germain to make another charge toward the league title.
Clermont Foot followed their first win in seven matches with a 4-0 home defeat against Lens.
After dropping points in their last two league games and getting knocked out of the Coupe de France by Nanes, Ikoma Openda scored a 5-minute hattrick to fund a ‘4-0’ win for Lens against Clermont Foot. Not only did Openda score three, but he also assisted Alexis Claude to score the fourth goal. It took 30 minutes for Openda to get his opening goal, and he was done scoring in the 35th minute.
Montpellier is unbeaten in their last 5 matches (4 wins) after Elye Wahi came off the bench in the 61sft minute and scored the only goal of the game 7 minutes later to win Montpellier three points at Ajaccio’s expense.
Angers loses 4 league games in a row after a 2-0 home defeat against Toulouse. It’s not a shock result as they’ve gone 19 games without a league win, losing 17.
For Toulouse, the result ended a run of three straight league defeats.
Nantes came from behind on two occasions to get a point at home against Nice. Ludovic Blas failed to give Nantes a first-half lead when he hit the bar with his penalty in the 34th minute after Moussa Sissoko had scored for Nantes in the 30th minute to cancel the lead Terem Moffi’s goal had given Nice in the 4th minute.
Monaco goes three games without a win after a 1-0 defeat at home against Reims.
Monaco was the last team to beat Reims in the league (a 3-0 score on September 18. 2022). Reims have not gone 19 matches unbeaten in Ligue 1. (9 wins)
Strasbourg come out of Marseille with a point after Jean Aholou scored two late goals in as many minutes to get Strasbourg from 2 goals down to a draw.
Granted that Marseille played the majority of the game with a numerical disadvantage when Leonardo Balerdi picked up a red card in the 29th minute, losing two goals that late was an upset. But on the balance of play, it was a deserved point for Strasbourg.
