Scorers: Cherki 83′, Tolisso 90+2′; Hakimi 53′, 85′, Dembélé 59′
PSG survived a late Lyon comeback to proceed their unbeaten run in Ligue 1 and transfer additional away from Marseille within the race for the title.
Dominating the ball from the off, the Ligue 1 leaders ought to have taken the lead simply 12 minutes in as in-form Ousmane Dembélé rounded the goalkeeper, just for his effort to be cleared off the road by Clinton Mata.
January signing Kvicha Kvaratskhelia was on the coronary heart of all of PSG’s good work, and went shut himself as he fired large after half an hour.
Regardless of their dominance although, it took till eight minutes into the second half for the guests to take the lead, with their opening objective lastly coming from flying fullback Achraf Hakimi.
The Moroccan defender ran onto a Bradley Barcola cross to aspect foot first time into the far nook of the web.
5 minutes later that they had doubled their benefit, with Dembélé offering the end.
Choosing the ball up 30 yards from objective, the winger surged into the Lyon penalty space earlier than selecting out the highest nook with a pinpoint effort, persevering with his impressing goalscoring run.
Lyon pulled one again seven minutes from time after some wonderful work from substitute Georges Mikautadze finally noticed the ball fall to Rayan Cherki, who slotted dwelling from 10 yards out.
However any hopes of finishing a comeback appeared nearly instantly extinguished as Achraf Hakimi added his second of the evening, however Lyon refused to be overwhelmed, with Corentin Tolisso scoring two minutes into stoppage time to arrange a nervy closing jiffy.
Nevertheless, they may not discover an equaliser, with three factors for PSG transferring them 13 factors clear on the summit of French soccer.
📸 OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE – AFP or licensors