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.
Jonathan David grabbed a comfort after approaching as an alternative 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 largest check of their season over the following two weeks in opposition to runaway Premier League leaders Liverpool, who had a uncommon weekend off.
Luis Enrique picked a powerful group to face Lille together with quite a lot of possible starters in opposition to Liverpool on Wednesday, and PSG put the end result 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.
An excellent 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 because the 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.
Good pulled degree 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 targets all the way 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 due to 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.
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