Paris Saint-Germain extended their lead at the top of the Ligue 1 table to 11 points with an emphatic 4-1 victory over Lyon on Sunday. All five goals came in the first half as Goncalo Ramos helped himself to a fine double after Nemanja Matic’s own goal gave the hosts a superb start. Lucas Beraldo was also on the scoresheet for the Parisiens while Ernest Nuamah scored a consolation for Lyon.
A rampant Paris Saint-Germain surged to a barnstomring 4-1 victory over Lyon despite missing UEFA Champions League heroes Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele, with all five goals coming in the first half.
The league leaders were 2-0 up within six minutes as a blockbuster first half produced 20 attempts on goal, with Pierre Sage clearly determined to take the game to the league leaders.
The problem with that approach was they gave the game to PSG, with the visitors going close on several occasions and even scoring through Ernest Nuamah’s effort from outside the box but leaving themselves hideously exposed at the back.
Bradley Barcola starred but failed to get on the scoresheet as Gonaclo Ramos hit a brace, Lucas Beraldo nabbed his first of the season and a Nemanja Matic own-goal opened the scoring before PSG comfortably saw out an uneventful second half.
Monaco’s 2-0 defeat of Brest earlier means that PSG will have to wait at least one more week to clinch the Ligue 1 title but they remain on track to secure it at the Parc des Princes next week against Le Havre regardless of what Les Monegasques can do.
PSG were much too strong for a Lyon side chasing European football after a catastrophic start to the season, who at least came to try and win at the in Paris.
They did create chances too, only the post denied Nuamah scoring two goals in the space of a few minutes which would’ve made the score 3-2 heading into the final moments of the first half while Alexandre Caqueret and Gift Orban also had late chances to make the end of the game more of a contest.
But PSG were completely ruthless by contrast. All four of their goals gave Anthony Lopes no chance to react, such was the perfection of their build-up play.
The only concern was Gianluigi Donnarumma between their own posts as the Italian reacted too slowly to stop Nuamah’s somewhat pedestrian shot and continued to look slightly off the pace after also struggling at home against Barcelona.
