AS Monaco continued their recent revival as they stunned Lille 1-0 away from home in this Friday Ligue 1 clash. The loss was LOSC’s first of 2019, and could potentially allow third place Lyon to cut the gap between them and Les Dogues to only four points if OL win against Montpellier.

Monaco are now on a seven game unbeaten streak in Ligue 1 and are nine points above the drop zone. ASM’s victory was secured thanks to a late, late goal from Brazilian Carlos Vinicius.

Highest rated players of the game: Adrien Silva and Jemerson (ASM) and Mike Maignan (LOSC)
Worst player of the game: Aleksandr Golovin (ASM).

Nicolas Pepe, linked with a summer move to several big name clubs as Barcelona and Bayern, was Lille’s best rated outfield player (6/10)

Paris Saint-Germain extended their lead at the top of Ligue 1 to 17 points as they secured an easy win over Dijon. This was PSG’s first game since their loss to Manchester United, and Thomas Tuchel’s men responded with a 4-0 hammering of lowly Dijon, who had been thrashed 8-0 by the Parisians last season.

Brazilian Marquinhos started the rout from an Angel di Maria corner, before Kylian Mbappe doubled the lead with his strike- his 30th goal of the season. Di Maria himself added a third with a nice free kick, and Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, the club’s shock signing from Stoke, netted only his second goal in PSG colours to round off proceedings.

PSG weren’t really troubled for this victory, and the player ratings below would testify to that. There were perhaps more eyeballs on the Juventus-Atleti clash which also featured three Frenchmen- Matuidi, Lemar and Griezmann.

Nevertheless, a nice win for PSG. Their next clash, against Marseille, should provide stiffer opposition.

L’Equipe ratings Dijon vs PSG

Le Parisien ratings from Dijon 0-4 Paris SG

After having just one player in Round 25’s TOTW, PSG have bounced back to dominate this Game Week’s TOTW, with as many as four representatives coming from Thomas Tuchel’s side, who comfortably beat Nimes 3-0 over the weekend.

Ligue 1 results:- Round 26

Dijon 0-1 Saint Etienne
Strasbourg 1-1 Lille
PSG 3-0 Nimes
Amiens 1-0 Nice
Guingamp 1-0 Angers
Montpellier 2-4 Reims
Nantes 1-0 Bordeaux
Toulouse 1-1 Caen
Rennes 1-1 Marseille
Monaco 2-0 Olympique Lyonnais

Ligue 1 Team of the Week: Subasic (Monaco); Traore (Rennes), Silva (Paris SG), Pallois (Nantes), Lala (Strasbourg); Verratti (Paris SG), M’vila (ASSE), Nkunku (Paris SG), Lopes (Monaco), Oudin (Reims); Mbappe (Paris SG)

Team of the Week: Paris SG

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Kylian Mbappe was again named in the Team of the Week, this time as the solitary Paris SG representative, after his goal helped Thomas Tuchel’s side beat Saint-Etienne away in a tricky clash in Game Week 25. Mbappe had scored in the midweek Champions League game against Manchester United, and netted a stunner at Stade Geoffrey Guichard to give his team a 1-0 win.

Angers had three representatives in last week’s TOTW, and they continued their nice run of a form with a 3-0 win over Nice, which has earned goalkeeper Ludovic Butelle and midfielder Baptiste Santamaria nominations in GW 25’s Team of the Round.

The interesting bit about this week’s players- with the exception of Reims forward Boulaye Dia, they’ve all appeared in the Team of the Week earlier this season. The only played to be nominated both this week and the last one is Monaco’s Gelson Martins, whose goal against Nantes lifted ASM out of the drop zone.

Ligue 1 TOTW Round 25: Butelle (Angers); Alakouch (Nimes), Kounde (Bordeaux), Abdelhamid (Reims), Marcal (Lyon; Savanier (Nimes), Santamaria (Nimes), Thauvin (Marseille), Martins (Marseille); Mbappe (PSG), Dia (Reims)