PSG 3-1 Marseille: Dembele and Mendes’ goals maintain hosts’ league dominance

Paris Saint-Germain took a big step in the direction of securing the Ligue 1 title after they searched Rivals Marseille 3-1.

Match report

The Luis Enrique team followed their Champions League-Penalty Shoot-out victory over Liverpool by blowing to the victory over their rivals in Sunday's class.

PSG are unbeaten in the competition and are now 19 points free from Marseille in second place.

In-shape usmane Dembele opened the score after 17 minutes, racing on a folding before he slid home.

Nuno Mendes doubled PSG's lead just before the break and ended up close.

Marseille dragged himself back to Stelling early in the second half when Adrien Rabiot set up a bad pass from the defense and founded Amine Gousiri, who made no mistake.

PSG, however, took a third when Marseille defender Pol Lirola changed to his own net in the 76th minute when he tried to erase the cross of Achraf Hakimi.

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Data Debrief: Cruise Control

PSG should have sewn the title in the coming weeks, and Luis Enrique will just hope that they will not leave if they focus their attention on potential European glory.

They have now won their last Six Ligue 1 matches against Marseille and only surrender one goal in the process.

PSG has demolished seven straight competition profits, on their longest run since a series of eight between October and December 2023.

The match statistics were good in their advantage in the Parc des Princes – PSG ended with 16 shots and 2.73 expected goals, in which Marseille only collected 0.98 xg of 11 attempts.

Match -Events

0 'The game is about to start!

2 'highlight of PSG vs Marseille

11 'Highlight of PSG vs Marseille

17 'goal! PSG 1-0 Marseille (Ousmane Dembélé)

26 'highlight of PSG vs Marseille

31 'Match event for PSG vs Marseille

38 'Match event for PSG vs Marseille

42 'goal! PSG 2-0 Marseille (Nuno Mendes)

51 'goal! PSG 2-1 Marseille (Amine Gouiri)

60 'Match event for PSG vs Marseille

61 'Match event for PSG vs Marseille

63 'Match event for PSG vs Marseille

67 'Match event for PSG vs Marseille

76 'Own goal! PSG 3-1 Marseille (Pol Lirola)

80 'highlight of PSG vs Marseille

Line-ups

PSG XI: Dembele, Fabian Ruiz, Donnarumma, Hakimi, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Vitinha, Pacho, Nuno Mendes, Beraldo, Zaire-Emery, Doue

Subs: Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Lucas, Safonov, Kang-in Lee, Barcola, João Neves, Mayulu, Mbaye

Marseille XI: Gerónimo Rulli, Kondogbia, Rabiot, Derek Cornelius, Rongier, Luiz Felipe, Gouiri, Balerdi, Amar Dedic, Luis Henrique, Bilal Nadir

Subs: Maupay, U.García, Bennacer, Jeffrey de Lange, P.Lirola, Greenwood, Jonathan Rowe, Quentin Merlin, Darryl Bakola

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