MATCH RESULTS – FRENCH LIGUE 1
Lens [ 2-1 ] Strasbourg
Angers [ 1-0 ] Lille
Nice [ 0-2 ] Paris Saint-Germain
Lyon [ 3-1 ] Rennes
Montpellier [ 1-2 ] Toulouse
Reims [ 1-1 ] Brest
Ajaccio [ 0-3 ] Auxerre
Troyes [ 0-2 ] Clermont
Nantes [ 2-2 ] Monaco
Lorient [ 0-0 ] Marseille
Paris St. Germain and Lens picked up wins to keep the gap between the top 2 teams at 6 points.
Marseille remains in third but fell two points behind after dropping points in a goalless draw with Lorient.
Monaco blew a 2-goal lead to dropped points against Nantes.
Lille and Rennes suffered defeats to drop further away from the top four.
Lyon moved up two positions to 7th with a win against Rennes.
Reims dropped from 7th to 8th after dropping two points in a draw with Brest.
Nice dropped a position to 9th after their defeat to Paris St. Germain.
Bottom-tabled Angers picked up three points from a win against Lille.
LEAGUE STANDINGS – FRENCH LIGUE 1
1 | Paris Saint-Germain ( 30 ) – 69 points
2 | Lens ( 30 ) – 63 points
3 | Marseille ( 30 ) – 61 points
4 | Monaco ( 30 ) – 58 points
5 | Lille ( 30 ) – 52 points
6 | Rennes ( 30 ) – 50 points
7 | Lyon ( 30 ) – 47 points
8 | Reims ( 30 ) – 47 points
9 | Nice ( 30 ) – 45 points
10 | Lorient ( 30 ) – 45 points
11 | Clermont ( 30 ) – 40 points
12 | Toulouse ( 30 ) – 38 points
13 | Montpellier ( 30 ) – 37 points
14 | Nantes ( 30 ) – 31 points
15 | Auxerre ( 30 ) – 29 points
16 | Brest ( 30 ) – 28 points
17 | Strasbourg ( 30 ) – 26 points
18 | Troyes ( 30 ) – 21 points
19 | Ajaccio ( 30 ) – 21 points
20 | Angers ( 30 ) – 14 points
April 7.
Lens [ 2-1 ] Strasbourg
Lens – Przemyslaw Frankowski 11′ Facundo Medina 65′
Strasbourg – Kevin Gameira 84′
April 8.
Angers [ 1-0 ] Lille
Angers – Halid Sabanovic 84′
Nice [ 0-2 ] Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain – Lionel Messi 26′ Sergio Ramos 76′
April 9.
Lyon [ 3-1 ] Rennes
Lyon – Corentin Tolisso 60′ Alexandre Lacazette 68′ Bradley Barcola 79′
Rennes – Amine Gouiri 11′
Montpellier [ 1-2 ] Toulouse
Montpellier – Elye Wahi 88′
Toulouse – Thijs Dallinga 31′ Fares Chaibi 85′
Reims [ 1-1 ] Brest
Reims – Folarin Balogun 90+1′ (pen)
Brest – Pierre Lees-Melou 6′
Ajaccio [ 0-3 ] Auxerre
Auxerre – Birama Toure 3′ Nuno Da Costa 6′ Michael Alphonse 45+2′(og)
Troyes [ 0-2 ] Clermont
Clermont – Muhammed Saracevic 27′ Johan Gastien 30′
Nantes [ 2-2 ] Monaco
Nantes – Mostafa Mohamed 65′ Ludovic Blas 78′
Monaco – Axel Disasi 21′ Eliot Matazo 30′
4 wins in a row for Lens after kicking the round off with a 2-1 win over Strasbourg.
Lille suffered their first defeat since losing in Paris. First defeat in 6 matches after 1-0 defeat at Angers.
After back-to-back league defeats at home, Paris St. Germain traveled to Nice and got a hard-fought ‘2-0’ victory against a Nice side that was unbeaten in the 12 league matches leading to this fixture.
Had Rennes taken their chances in the first half, they might have gone on to pick up a win at Lyon. It’s back-to-back league wins for Lyon after bouncing from Coupe de France defeat against Nantes and terrible opening half to recover from a goal down to a 3-1 win over Rennes.
Back-to-back defeats for Rennes after beating Paris St. Germain.
Toulouse followed their Coupe de France semifinal success with a 2-1 win at Montpellier.
Fares Chaibi’s goal in the 85th minute ended up being the game-winning goal for Toulouse at Montpellier. It was Montpellier’s first defeat in 8 league games. (5 wins).
Folarin Balogun converted a late penalty to get Reims an equalizing goal in the first minute of the final added time. Reims avoided defeat at home to Brest.
Three goals in the opening half (with two coming in the opening 6 minutes) were enough to get Auxerre a 3-0 win at Ajaccio.
Two goals in the opening half got Clermont three points in Troyes.
Monaco blew a 2-goal lead in Nantes.
Nantes reached another Coupe de France final after their midweek victory over Lyon and bounced back from going 2 goals down in the opening 30 minutes of their match against Monaco to pick up a point at home.
