Ousmane Dembele’s second-half brace and a primary Paris-Saint Germain objective for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia helped the Ligue 1 leaders blow Monaco away with a 4-1 win on Friday.
PSG, who introduced contract extensions for coach Luis Enrique, Achraf Hakimi, Nuno Mendes and Vitinha earlier than the match, secured their sixteenth win in 21 league video games to succeed in 53 factors, 13 forward of second-placed Marseille, who’ve a recreation in hand.
Vitinha celebrated his new cope with the opener after simply six minutes, sending a low free-kick contained in the close to put up, however Denis Zakaria equalised for Monaco by scoring from a good angle following Soungoutou Magassa’s superb throughball within the seventeenth minute.
Whereas each side had probabilities to seize the lead earlier than half-time, it was PSG’s new signing Kvaratskhelia who restored their benefit, brilliantly reducing inside a defender within the field earlier than blasting dwelling 9 minutes after half-time.
Ligue 1’s main scorer Dembele prolonged the benefit simply three minutes later after a one-two with Want Doue, and the 27-year-old winger sealed the rout in stoppage time together with his sixteenth league objective of the season.
The French champions subsequent play at fellow Ligue 1 outfit Brest within the first leg of their Champions League knockout-stage play-off tie on Tuesday.
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Dembele has now scored 13 objectives in seven matches in all competitions for the reason that flip of the yr, as many as he netted in his earlier 42 outings.
PSG have additionally scored a minimum of three objectives in 5 of their final eight dwelling matches towards Monaco in all competitions, having solely accomplished so twice of their first 44 such video games.
