FRENCH LIGUE 1
MATCH RESULTS – FRENCH LIGUE 1
Marseille [ 1-1 ] Montpellier
Auxerre [ 1-0 ] Troyes
Rennes [ 0-1 ] Lens
Lille [ 3-1 ] Lorient
Angers [ 1-1 ] Nice
Brest [ 3-1 ] Toulouse
Clermont [ 2-1 ] Ajaccio
Nantes [ 0-3 ] Reims
Monaco [ 4-3 ] Strasbourg
Paris Saint-Germain [ 0-1 ] Lyon
9 rounds left of the French Ligue 1:
Paris St. Germain remained as they were for the past two rounds; no goals, no points, but still number 1 with a 6-point lead.
Points dropped in a draw with Montpellier cost Marseille 2nd place in the standings.
Lens moved up a position to second with a win at Rennes.
Marseille dropped to 3rd, but on even on points with Lens.
Monaco is now three points from second place after coming out on top in a 7-goal game against Strasbourg.
Lille moved a position up to 5th to replace Rennes (dropped to 6th).
Reims moved three positions up to 6th with a 3-0 win at Nantes.
Nice dropped two positions down to 9th after a ‘1-1’ draw with bottom-tabled Angers.
A win in Paris moved Lyon up a position to 9th.
LEAGUE STANDINGS – FRENCH LIGUE 1
1 | Paris Saint-Germain ( 29 ) – 66 points
2 | Lens ( 29 ) – 60 points
3 | Marseille ( 29 ) – 60 points
4 | Monaco ( 29 ) – 57 points
5 | Lille ( 29 ) – 52 points
6 | Rennes ( 29 ) – 50 points
7 | Reims ( 29 ) – 46 points
8 | Nice ( 29 ) – 45 points
9 | Lyon ( 29 ) – 44 points
10 | Lorient ( 29 ) – 44 points
11 | Montpellier ( 29 ) – 37 points
12 | Clermont ( 29 ) – 37 points
13 | Toulouse ( 29 ) – 35 points
14 | Nantes ( 29 ) – 30 points
15 | Brest ( 29 ) – 27 points
16 | Strasbourg ( 29 ) – 26 points
17 | Auxerre ( 29 ) – 26 points
18 | Troyes ( 29 ) – 21 points
19 | Ajaccio ( 29 ) – 21 points
20 | Angers ( 29 ) – 11 points
March 31.
Marseille [ 1-1 ] Montpellier
Marseille – Matteo Guendouzi 44′ (pen)
Montpellier – Arnaud Nordin 12′
April 1.
Auxerre [ 1-0 ] Troyes
Auxerre – M’Baye Niang 73′
Rennes [ 0-1 ] Lens
Lens – Lois Openda 31′
April 2.
Lille [ 3-1 ] Lorient
Lille – Remy Cabella 13′ Edon Zhegrova 89′ 90+1′
Lorient – Ibrahima Kone 77′
Angers [ 1-1 ] Nice
Angers – Ibrahima Niane 15′
Nice – Terem Moffi 4′
Brest [ 3-1 ] Toulouse
Brest – Steve Mounie 32′ Jeremy Le Douaron 63′ Mahdi Camara 84′
Toulouse – Thijs Dallinga 9′
Clermont [ 2-1 ] Ajaccio
Clermont – Grejohn Kyei 60′(pen) 90+3(pen)
Ajaccio – Mounaim El Idrissy 24′
Nantes [ 0-3 ] Reims
Reims – Alexis Flips 38′ 39′ Marshall Munetsi 58′
Monaco [ 4-3 ] Strasbourg
Monaco – Vanderson 19′ Eliesse Ben Seghir 54′ Edan Diop 58′ Youssof Fofana 78′
Strasbourg – Lebo Mothiba 32′ Guillermo Maripan 41′(og) Habibou Diallo 90+3
Paris Saint-Germain [ 0-1 ] Lyon
Lyon – Bradley Barcola 56′
Rennes followed a 2-0 win in Paris with a 1-0 defeat at home to Lens.
Lois Openda scored in a third straight league fame for Lens to make it three straight league wins for his side. A hattrick against Clermont, a brace against Angers, and not a goal at Rennes.
Angers end a streak of 5 league defeats with a draw at home against Nice.
It is four straight defeat for Ajaxxio after Clermont came from a goal down to win 2-1 through two goals scored from an awarded penalty. Grejohn Kyei dispatched both penalties kicks into the goal to see Clermont get the three points over a 10-man
Nantes have now gone 6 matches without a win: 3 defeats.
Riems quickly got back on the right path after losing their first league game in 20 matches against Marseille in the last round. Reims were 3-0 winners at Nantes.
Monaco entered the halftime break at ‘2-1’ down but recovered in the second half to finish out on the good side of a ‘4-3’ score against Strasbourg. It was successive league wins after three games without a win.
It’s back-to-back league defeats for Paris St. Germain. They followed a 2-0 home defeat to Rennes with a 1-0 home defeat against Lyon.
Bradley Barcola replaced an injured Amin Sarr in the 23rd minute and scored the only goal of the game in the 56th minute to get Lyon their first league win in four matches. Lyon came to the game on the back of three successive league draws.
