PARIS (AP) — Neymar won and scored a penalty as Paris Saint-Germain drew 1-1 at home to Monaco to remain top of the French league on Sunday.
Neymar caught Lionel Messi’s pass on the left and cut inside central defender Guillermo Maripan.
The referee dismissed PSG’s penalty request but awarded the kick after a video review. Neymar used his usual staggered run-up to confuse goalkeeper Alexander his Nouvel before casually guiding the ball inside the left post. This was Neymar’s sixth goal in the league and his eighth in his five appearances overall.
PSG are on 10 points, ahead of rivals Marseille and northern Lens on goal difference.
Monaco got lucky at times, but shut down PSG early on, leaving no space for their famous attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to take the lead on the 20th.
After recently signing Mohamed Kamala After tackling Messi near the halfway line, Russian midfielder Aleksandr Golovin put a pass into the path of German striker Kevin Woland, who held off center defender Presnel Kimpembe with a low shot into the bottom right corner.
PSG’s Strikeforce had scored 17 league goals in their last three games under new manager Christophe Galtier, but it was not until Mbappe struck in the 37th minute.
“They closed out well,” said PSG captain Marquinhos. “They stopped us from taking the ball out from behind.”
PSG then hit the post twice in stoppage time in the first half, when Messi’s curler from 20 meters clipped the left upright and bounced off Mbappe.
Marquinhos conceded an awkward corner just after the start of the second half, and minutes later Monaco striker Wissam Ben Yedder came close with a lob for 12th-placed Monaco after goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma swerved off the line. .
Nouvel made a great stop to hold off Neymar in the 59th inning, but was hit well on his penalty.
Meanwhile, Igor Tudor’s new Marseilles are looking good, with Alexis Sanchez scoring twice in a 3-0 win over southern rivals Nice.
Nice has made a strong acquisition of established Premier League players such as goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, midfielder Aaron Ramsay and forward Nicolas Pepe.but still chasing a win and is 18th.
Marseille have made a strong start under Tudor, who are known as punitive players and whose appointment was questioned by fans, especially when they took veteran playmaker Dimitri Payet out of the first three games. Chopped.
But Tudor has won fans with its fierce football high-octane brand. He also said he will offer his Payet game, 35. This time, he started playing right behind Sanchez — a highly foretold signing from Italian champions Inter Milan..
The Chilean forward scored his first goal in the 10th minute, and after former Arsenal full-back Nuno Tavares scored three goals in four games this season, Tavares paired with Peyet before Sanchez doubled in the 42nd minute. I set an eye goal.
Other games
Marseille were not the only team to score freely away from home, Montpellier scored five goals in the first half in a 7–0 win at Brest.
Nineteen-year-old striker Elie Wahi scored twice while veteran forward Valaire Germain added two second-half goals for eighth-placed Montpellier.
It was a crushing defeat for coach Michel Der Zakarian, who spent 10 years as a defender at Brest and coached them from 2017 to 2021.
Striker Moussa Dembélé’s second-half header saw fourth-placed Lyon draw 1–1 with Lens.
Promoted Toulouse took an early lead through a goal from midfielder Zakaria Abhlal, but conceded three goals in the second half in a 3–1 loss to mid-table Nantes.
Nigerian striker Terem Mofi scored both goals as Lorient beat Clermont 2–1 at home.
Elsewhere, Troyes beat Angers 3-1 in a scrap between the lower teams.
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