Nice are unbeaten following Paris Saint-Germain and closed the first round five points behind the capital’s most powerful team, after beating Lens 2-0 on Wednesday with a double by Nigerian striker Terem Moffi, the first from a penalty, in the last fifteen minutes of the game.
The former Sevilla player also scored two goals, the second of them from the penalty spot. Wissam Ben Yedder, who led the victory (1-2) of Monaco, third place, on the field against Toulouse.
Monaco won with ten
A match in which Austrian Adi Hütter’s men survived the expulsion of Aleksandr Golovin, which left Monaco a man down in the 51st minute after seeing a straight red card.
But if one player stood out on the day that served to close out the first round, it was this one the Malian attacker of Brest Kamory Doumbia, needing only 45 minutes to score four goals (4-0) as Brest beat Lorient.
Doumbia, who has so far scored only one goal in the current championship, He retaliated in the first half where the Malian converted almost every ball he touched into the goal.
A sample of the state of grace in which the surprising Brest lives, which has adapted to fourth place in the classification, from Lille, which despite leading after 20 minutes of play on the scoreboard with an own goal from the Ivorian Abakar Sylla, lost 2-1 against Strasbourg.
Stumbled that he could not profit Marseille (sixth), which saw its streak of four successive victories snapped, after drawing 1-1 this Wednesday in their visit to the Montpellier field.
End Marseille’s streak
The one in Gennaro Gattuso who handed the title back to Panamanian Michael Amir Murillo, they matched Khalil Fayad’s initial goal for the locals with a goal seven minutes into the second half of Jordan Beretout which headed a Jonathan Clauss cross into the nets.
WHO Olympique de Lyon is still on a roll, who left the playoff position for permanence after chaining a third straight victory, by winning with a goal from Alexandre Lacazette 1-0 against Nantes, in a clash in which the Lyonnais finished with ten players for sacking of centre-back Dejan Lovren.
Source: La Verdad
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