Paris Saint-Germain cruised to a 4-1 win over Lille on Saturday to increase their lead in France to 16 factors forward of their heavyweight Champions League conflict with Liverpool.
Bradley Barcola, Marquinhos, Ousmane Dembele and Want Doue all struck within the first half on the Parc des Princes as PSG prolonged their unbeaten run in Ligue 1 this season to 24 matches.
“It’s an ideal state of affairs forward of a sport just like the one towards Liverpool,” stated PSG captain Marquinhos.
“We’re in nice form and all of the indicators are good. We’re profitable and we’re stuffed with confidence. We should not cease and the employees are pushing us onerous to offer it our all.”
Jonathan David grabbed a comfort after approaching as an alternative choice to Lille, who go to Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday within the first leg of their final 16 tie.
PSG are cantering in the direction of an eleventh league title in 13 years however will face the most important take a look at of their season over the subsequent two weeks towards runaway Premier League leaders Liverpool, who had a uncommon weekend off.
“I don’t know if we despatched a message immediately, we’ve been in good type for some time,” stated Marquinhos. “We actually needed to organize effectively for the Champions League and that’s what we’ve carried out.”
Luis Enrique picked a robust group to face Lille together with quite a lot of possible starters towards Liverpool on Wednesday, and PSG put the consequence past doubt contained in the opening half hour.
Barcola turned within the rebound to offer PSG a sixth-minute lead after Lille goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier parried Dembele’s effort proper into his path.
Marquinhos headed in a second from Doue’s cross and Dembele drilled in to make it 3-0 on 28 minutes, notching his league-leading 18th aim of the marketing campaign.
A superb strike from Doue made it the fourth time in 5 video games PSG have scored 4 at dwelling because the hosts clinched their fifteenth win in 16 matches for the reason that flip of the 12 months.
David’s late aim was his twelfth this time period though he has solely scored twice since early December within the league.
“I’m not going to cry however the scheduling is scandalous and questions must be requested,” stated Lille coach Bruno Genesio, who had hoped the fixture could be rearranged given their sport in Dortmund simply 72 hours later.
– Good put stress on Marseille –
Good pulled stage on factors with second-placed Marseille earlier within the day after a 3-1 win away to Saint-Etienne.
Pablo Rosario opened the scoring for Good however Lucas Stassin levelled for Saint-Etienne, who had been thrashed 8-0 within the first assembly between the groups in September.
An personal aim from Mickael Nade put Good again forward early within the second half earlier than Evann Guessand wrapped up a fourth successive victory for Franck Haise’s males.
Saint-Etienne dropped into the underside two after Le Havre got here from two objectives right down to beat Lens 4-3.
The hosts led by Neil El Aynaoui’s penalty and a aim from Ruben Aguilar, however Le Havre levelled earlier than half-time because of Issa Soumare and Andre Ayew.
Lens went again in entrance by Florian Sotoca just for Josue Casimir to equalise, with Ahmed Hassan changing a stoppage-time penalty to win it for Le Havre.
Marseille host Nantes on Sunday, making an attempt to shake off a 3-0 defeat by Auxerre, with membership president Pablo Longoria serving the beginning of a 15-match ban for claiming his membership had been victims of “corruption”.
