5-2: PSG beat Monaco and take the lead

Luis Enrique’s PSG went top of Ligue 1 after beating third-placed Monaco 5-2 at the Parc des Princes to leave it on six points. Nice, second, host Toulouse tomorrow with the aim of getting back to within a point. Kylian Mbappé and Ousmane Dembélé contributed with a goal each to a sixth consecutive league victory for the Parisians.

Monaco, led by the Austrian Adi Hutter, He came out very bravely and played brilliantly in the first half. The two goalkeepers played an important role in the opening stages.

The German Philip Kohn With two excellent interventions he prevented Kylian Mbappé (7′) and Achraf Hakimi (16′) from scoring after a quarter of an hour, while Gianluigi Donnarumma He also showed reflexes on a header from Soungoutou Magassa (10′) and was saved by VAR when he disallowed Vanderson’s goal for offside at the start of the game by Florin Balogun (14′).

Goalkeeper, from heroes to villains

But if until then both goalkeepers were competing with victories, they immediately began to do it with mistakes. Köhn failed first, leaving the ball dead after Dembélé’s shot bounced in front of him and Gonçalo Ramos took advantage of the gift to open the scoring and celebrate that PSG activated the purchase option in their contract on Wednesday to acquire him as property (18′).

But just four minutes later Donnarumma refused to be outdone and, pressed by the ever-dangerous Balogun, He gave the ball to Takumi Minamino, who made it 1-1.

Mbappé scored from a penalty

Köhn quickly recovered with a save from a point-blank shot by Mbappé after only receiving from Achraf, but the Monaco goalkeeper was unable to prevent the PSG star from beating him with a penalty forced by Dembélé when he hoped and received a kick from Magassa (39). ‘).

It was Mbappé’s 14th goalwho consolidates himself as the leading scorer in Ligue 1, and 10th at Monaco, the team where he started his career.

Before the end of a hectic first half, Donnarumma frustrated Minamino with a big hand after receiving a good pass from Aleksandr Golovin.

Great goals from Dembélé and Vitinha

After the break, Monaco started in a better position on the field, dominating, but not creating any chances, and the match was decided by the great individual quality of the PSG players.

Dembélé, outstanding today, extended Fabián Ruiz’s long drive from the right with superb control of his spur, got past Magassa and fired a shot past Köhn at the short post despite his poor angle (70′ ). It was the French winger’s first goal at PSG after leaving Barça.

Just two minutes later Vitinha also showed his class with another great goal by nailing the right foot into the net from the side of the area.

Balogun, goal as reward

Monaco did not throw in the towel and Balogun, a nuisance for PSG due to his mobility, was rewarded for his remarkable game by scoring 4-2 after only receiving deep from Minamino and beat Donnarumma on his way out (75′).

Monaco pushed on in search of another goal but it was already in injury time Randal Kolo Muani made it 5-2 by taking advantage of a bad defensive clearance in the area. PSG achieved it sixth consecutive league win, with 20 goals in favor and just three against. A perfect hand to host Newcastle in the Champions League on Tuesday with an obligation to win the competitive group of death.