Mbappe & Neymar Sink Dolly's Montpellier TO GO Top
23 January, 2021
Ligue 1
Result: Paris Saint-Germain 4-0 Montpellier
Date: 22 January 2021
Venue: Parc des Princes
Paris Saint-Germain opened a good three-point lead near the top of the Ligue 1 desk after thrashing ten-gentleman Montpellier 4-0 on Friday night.
Mauro Icardi was favored over Moise Kean to business lead the series for PSG, with Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Angel Di Maria behind him while Bafana Bafana midfielder Keagan Dolly started from the bench for Montpellier.
Montpellier were reduced to ten men in the 19th minute after goalkeeper Jonas Omlin, who was primarily given a yellow card, was red-carded carrying out a Video Associate Referee (VAR) assessment after denying Mbappe a good clear goal-scoring opportunity.
Mauricio Pochettino's charges eventually broke the deadlock with 11 minutes kept of the initially stanza after Mbappe raced sharp on goal within the box from Di Maria's move and chipped a lovely hit over the on-rushing substitute goalkeeper Dimitry Bertaud.
Montpellier were dropping deep in the first stages of the next stanza but that didn't help matters, as Neymar doubled the business lead for the Parisians in the hour-mark with a good close range end after a square go by Mbappe.
Icardi quickly added a good third target for Pochettino's men one minute later with a good smashing strike past Bertaud a good deflection fell on his route inside the box.
Montpellier were capitulating, simply because Mbappe made it 4-0 immediately after with a simple tap-found in to complete his brace after a good square pass by Icardi.
Layvin Kurzawa came very near getting his brand on the score-sheet minute with an acrobatic overhead kick inside the container that came off the crossbar.
Mbappe was denied a good hat-trick in the last two moments after skipping history two defenders inside box before viewing his work turned away by Bertaud, however the four goals were plenty of to send PSG top.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za