Marseille closed the hole on leaders Paris Saint-Germain to seven factors on the prime of Ligue 1 after crushing strugglers Le Havre 5-1 on the Velodrome on Sunday because the season approaches the midway level.
Valentin Rongier, Bilal Nadir, Neal Maupay, Elye Wahi and Ulisses Garcia scored the objectives for Roberto De Zerbi’s staff, who additionally moved three factors away from third-placed Monaco with the victory.
Marseille have received 5 and drawn certainly one of their final six outings in all competitions, and have scored 9 objectives in two matches both facet of the fortnight-long winter break.
Rongier drove within the first from distance on 25 minutes and Nadir fired a low shot into the far nook to make it two, the 21-year-old scoring his first senior objective on simply his second Ligue 1 begin.
Maupay, who’s on mortgage from Everton in a deal that can grow to be a everlasting switch on the season’s finish, headed in Marseille’s third objective earlier than the interval.
Nadir, who was beginning within the absence of the ailing Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, didn’t reappear for the second half as Marseille added a fourth objective on 66 minutes when Mason Greenwood squared for substitute Wahi to faucet in.
Garcia, additionally on from the bench, accomplished the scoring for the house facet as De Zerbi’s males scored 5 in a Ligue 1 sport for the third time this season.
Le Havre, who’re within the relegation zone, pulled one again late on when former Marseille participant Andre Ayew headed in.
PSG beat Monaco 4-2 away in December, simply earlier than the winter break, in a fixture that was introduced ahead as a result of the edges met within the Champions Trophy in Qatar on Sunday.
The Parisians received that sport 1-0 to say the primary trophy of the French marketing campaign.
Elsewhere on Sunday, Champions League revelations Brest slumped to a 2-0 defeat away at Angers, a end result which leaves them twelfth in Ligue 1 because the season reaches its halfway stage subsequent weekend.
Toulouse have been shock 1-0 winners at Lens because of a Zakaria Aboukhlal penalty, whereas Strasbourg got here from behind to beat Auxerre 3-1 in Alsace.
Lyon, Good and Saint-Etienne additionally received over the weekend.
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