Published September 22,2024
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Monaco noticed off a battling Le Havre 3-1 on Sunday to maintain tempo with Paris Saint-Germain on the prime of the Ligue 1 desk and protect their unbeaten file.
The Principality aspect backed up their spectacular midweek victory within the Champions League in opposition to Spanish giants Barcelona by profitable their fourth sport in 5 league outings this time period and transferring as much as second within the standings, behind PSG on aim distinction.
Strikes in fast succession halfway by means of the second half by Eliesse Ben Seghir and Folarin Balogun ensured Monaco claimed all three factors, after Le Havre’s Daler Kuzyaev had cancelled out Jordan Teze’s early opener.
“I’m very pleased with the win, even if it wasn’t the best game of the season,” mentioned Monaco coach Adi Huetter.
Dutch right-back Teze gave the house aspect the lead inside 10 minutes when he tucked away Takumi Minamino’s cross from two yards out after the ball had ping-ponged across the field.
Le Havre then grew into the match and on the half-hour Kuzyaev obtained the equaliser with a wise end with the surface of his proper foot that crept into the far nook.
Monaco’s beginning XI was very totally different from the one which beat Barcelona, and tied 1-1 on the break Huetter rang the modifications and despatched on Ben Seghir and Denis Zakaria.
But it was the away staff that regarded to have taken the lead early within the second half, just for VAR to rule that Josue Casimir had been in an offside place earlier than he slotted the ball previous Philipp Koehn.
Rising star Ben Seghir then did handle to divide the edges with a second of particular person inspiration within the 66th minute.
Receiving the ball 25 yards from aim, he superior on the packed defence earlier than standing up Arouna Sangante and bending the ball past the goalkeeper together with his proper foot.
Balogun wrapped up the factors 4 minutes later when he swept house from George Ilenikhena’s move.
Elsewhere, Montpellier emerged victors in a topsy-turvy 3-2 win in opposition to Auxerre with 4 of the targets coming within the area of 10 second-half minutes.
Hamed Traore gave Auxerre the lead within the 18th minute, earlier than the floodgates opened simply after the hour.
Montpellier flipped the sport on its head when Akor Adams equalised within the sixty fifth minute and Modibo Sagnan then gave them the lead within the 71st minute.
Ado Onaiwu levelled for Auxerre one minute later, however Adams struck once more with quarter-hour remaining to win it for the house aspect.
Brest adopted up Thursday’s victory on Champions League debut by beating Toulouse 2-0 and Angers drew 1-1 at house to Nantes.
Later on Sunday, Lyon host Roberto De Zerbi’s resurgent Marseille within the weekend’s greatest conflict that includes two of France’s most bitter rivals.
Source: www.anews.com.tr