Argentine celebrity Lionel Messi starred with a aim as Paris Saint Germain defeated twelfth positioned Toulouse and prolong their lead on prime of the Ligue One desk. Without Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, the accountability of shouldering the PSG assault was sorely on the shoulders of the World Cup winner and he didn’t disappoint.
Messi curled in an beautiful aim into the underside nook from outdoors the realm within the 58th minute and put PSG 2-1 forward, serving to the hosts get well from a woeful begin the place they conceded first. The Argentine additionally got here near finishing his brace in stoppage time solely to hit the put up. This was his third aim in his final 5 league video games and it put PSG on 54 factors from 22 video games.
Achraf Hakimi had cancelled out Branco van den Boomen’s opener within the first half for Christophe Galtier’s aspect, who had solely received two of their final 5 matches in Ligue 1.
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Olympique de Marseille are second on 46 factors earlier than internet hosting Nice on Sunday with third-placed RC Lens travelling to Stade Brestois.
Without the aforementioned Neymar and Mbappe, each injured, Messi was flanked by Hugo Ekitike in assault with Vitinha simply behind.
Renato Sanches was on in midfield following Marco Verratti’s suspension, however the Portugal worldwide left the pitch in tears after sustaining a thigh harm on 12 minutes.
Van den Boomen then opened the scoring within the twentieth minute with a finely taken free kick that left Gianlugi Donnarumma with each ft caught within the floor.
Marquinhos latched onto a Messi free kick, just for his deflection to hit the put up 12 minutes earlier than the break, however Hakimi was extra exact 5 minutes later with an outstanding curled try from outdoors the field.
