PSG prolong Ligue 1 lead with Montpellier win as Mbappe limps off

AFP

Lionel Messi scored as Paris St Germain stretched their Ligue 1 result in 5 factors with a 3-1 win at Montpellier after Kylian Mbappe limped off the pitch on Wednesday.

Mbappe, who additionally missed a penalty, held his left thigh as he was changed after 20 minutes, however coach Christophe Galtier stated the France ahead had broken his knee.

“It’s a knock on the knee and it hurts behind the thigh,” Galtier stated, not trying too nervous two weeks earlier than his staff tackle Bayern Munich within the Champions League last-16 first leg.

Following a lacklustre first half PSG burst into life after the break with Fabian Ruiz, Messi and Warren Zaire-Emery discovering the web to place them on 51 factors from 21 video games.

Olympique de Marseille claimed a 2-0 victory at Nantes to leapfrog RC Lens, who dropped their first factors at house in a 1-0 defeat by Nice, into second place.

Mbappe had an evening to overlook at La Mosson, having had his spot-kick parried away by Benjamin Lecomte within the eighth minute. He needed to take it once more, just for the Montpellier keeper to disclaim him once more.

PSG, who had misplaced their two earlier away video games and have been held to a last-gasp house draw by Stade de Reims on Sunday, have been extra compact on Wednesday and have been rewarded within the fifty fifth minute, when Ruiz volleyed house from Hugo Ekitike’s headed move.

Ruiz was the supplier 17 minutes later, discovering Messi with a laser-sharp move for the Argentine ahead to beat Lecomte with a low shot from shut vary.

Arnaud Nordin pulled one again for Montpellier however 16-year-old midfielder Zaire-Emery, who was born two years after Messi made his skilled debut, put the end result past doubt on the finish of a counter-attack.

Earlier, Morocco midfielder Azzedine Ounahi celebrated his first match for Marseille after becoming a member of from Angers with a cool end following a spectacular dribble so as to add to Joao Victor’s personal objective.

With 46 factors, OM lead third-placed Lens by one level after the northeners’ 10-game profitable streak at Bollaert ended with a loss to Nice who prevailed because of Gaetan Laborde’s second-half strike.

Monaco stayed fourth, 4 factors behind Lens, by beating AJ Auxerre 3-2.

England Under-21 striker Folarin Balogun bagged a hat-trick to assist Stade de Reims beat Lorient 4-2 and transfer high of the scorers’ charts.

Bottom membership Angers have been crushed 2-1 at house by AC Ajaccio to rack up a top-flight document 13 defeats in a row, beating the mark set by Dijon within the 2020-21 season and Cercle Athletique Paris (1933-34).