PSG celebrates the club's goalscoring record with Kylian Mbappe (from PSG's official website)
In the shadow of Lionel Messi's suspension, the apology and the bickering surrounding the affair, Paris Saint-Germain is trying to recover tonight (Sunday) and get closer to another championship when it hosts the weak Troyes, 24 hours after Lance beat Marseille and narrowed the gap from the top to just three points.
Monaco IV opened the day of matches with a 1:2 at Ange, which was already officially relegated to the minor league last week.
Lyon beat Montpellier 4:5 in the 100th minute after a turnaround from 4:1 and two fourths.
The situation of Nantes got complicated, losing at home 2:0 to Strasbourg in a relegation battle.
Easy goal.
Kylian Mbappe (Photo: Reuters)
Troyes - Paris Saint-Germain 1:0 (halftime)
The champion already has six losses this season - all in 2023 - and in light of the poor ability there is even a fear of losing the title.
Lance's victory over Marseille narrowed the gap from the leader to three points and all the pressure will be on Christophe Galtier and his missing squad.
Troyes has already come to terms with the relegation that will become official in one of the next rounds, being without a win in its last 16 games and PSG have not won since the 0:1 home win in November 2001. The one who will have to prevent further embarrassments from Paris is Kylian
Mbappe, given their lack of the suspended Messi and Ashraf Hakimi who was sent off in the previous round, with Hugo Akitika getting a chance alongside him in attack and the young Warren Zaire-Emery in the right back position.
Renato Sanchez returned to the squad, from which Nuno Mendes was also absent who joined the other injured who ended the season: Neymar, Presnel Kimpamba and Nordy Mukiale.
In the meantime, it seems that the tension between the club and the fans is increasing: in "RMC" it was reported today that Paris Saint-Germain canceled tickets for about 450 in the organization "Ultras Collective" who planned to come to the game at Troyes.
This was apparently due to the crowd's protests against the team's stars, led by Lionel Messi and Neymar.
Those fans intend to come to the stadium anyway, and as a result the police unit to fight hooliganism in France defined the game as dangerous.
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A rather rare opportunity in the lineup.
Hugo Akitika against Eric Palmer Brown (Photo: GettyImages, FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI/AFP)
the progress of the game
8th minute: Goal!
Mbappe waited on the goal line for the ball to rebound off the crossbar after Vitinia's attempt and slammed home his 24th of the season in the league to equal Lacazette at the top of the scoring charts.
0:1 to Paris Saint-Germain.
Minute 29: Troy's almost equalised.
Donnarumma came out and the header was not good enough, the ball reached Ogbo who kicked towards the goal and Marcinius saved PSG.
Relegated with a fireworks show.
Troyes fans (Photo: GettyImages, FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI/AFP)
Anjou - Monaco 2:1
After two crushing defeats (3:0 in Lens and 4:0 at home to Montpellier) that kept them out of the Champions League, the team from the principalities took advantage of the visit to the already relegated table lock to get back on the winning track.
In the 45th minute, Alexander Golovin scored his eighth goal of the season with a wonderful kick to the connections, and in the 60th minute, Miron Boado doubled the advantage.
Abdullah Sima scored four minutes later, but the team, who will leave the top flight this year after eight years, suffered a seventh straight loss to Monaco.
The guest settled in the fourth place, and is six points away from Marseille, who holds the third place leading to the Champions League qualifiers.
Find the network.
Alexander Golobin (Photo: GettyImages, VALERY HACHE/AFP)
Lyon - Montpellier 4:5
Laurent Blanc hosted the team where he started his glorious career as a player, and this crazy game provided a change from 4:1 to 4:5 in the 100th minute and two fours made by great strikers.
Eli Vahi starred in the Montpellier uniform with the first four in the five top leagues in the 2022/23 season, and he did it in fifteen minutes (minutes 40, 41, 53 on a penalty and 55) and on the other hand Alexandre Lacazette who scored first (31) led a tremendous comeback when he scored in the 70th minute , was helped by a shot by Diane Lovren (70) and then equalized (82, from a third assist by Bradley Barcola) and completed a reversal with a penalty in the 10th minute of added time, after a hand touch in the box by Christopher Julien.
The Lyon captain thus increased to 24 goals this season and surpassed Kylian Mbappe by one, with his team in seventh place and only two points less than the fifth-placed Lill who holds the ticket for the Conference League qualifiers.
This is the second time in the last 75 years that two players have scored fourths in the same match in the French top league.
The previous time was in May 1974, when Reims beat Monaco 4:8 with a five-pointer from Carlos Bianchi for the winner and a four-pointer from Delio Onis for the loser.
What a transformation.
Alexandre Lacazette (Photo: GettyImages, OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE/AFP)
More games
Nantes - Strasbourg 2:0
for Strasbourg: Habib Diallo (26th penalty), Habib Diarra (47th)
Lorraine - Brest 1:2
for Lorraine: Ibrahima Kuna (32nd and 51st).
For Brest: Roman del Castillo (69 penalty)
Auxerre - Clermont 1:1
For Auxerre: Suleiman Toure (36).
For Clermont: Seif-Edin Xavi (54)
Ajax - Toulouse 0:0
Four in fifteen minutes.
Eli Vahi (Photo: GettyImages, OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE/AFP)
French League 2022/23
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
gates
points
1
Paris Saint Germain
33
24
3
6
34-76
75
2
Lance
34
21
9
4
26-57
72
3
Marseille
34
21
7
6
34-62
70
4
Monaco
34
19
7
8
51-68
64
5
night
34
17
8
9
41-60
59
6
Ran
34
17
5
12
38-56
56
7
Lyon
34
16
8
10
41-57
56
8
nice
34
13
12
9
32-42
51
9
Lorraine
34
14
9
11
46-48
51
10
Reims
34
12
14
8
35-41
50
11
Clermont
34
14
8
12
44-37
50
12
Montpellier
34
13
4
17
57-56
43
13
Toulouse
34
12
6
16
55-48
42
14
Strasbourg
34
8
11
15
55-46
35
15
Brest
34
8
11
15
50-38
35
16
Okzar
34
8
10
16
56-32
34
17
Nantes
34
6
14
14
50-35
32
18
Ajax
34
6
5
23
61-22
23
19
Troy
33
4
10
19
70-41
22
20
Ange
34
3
5
26
74-28
14
The 35th round will kick off on Friday with the match between Lance and Reims.
Paris Saint-Germain will play against another team below the red line on Saturday, when they host Ajax.
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