Match Reports
PSG continue hot streak in win over Sainté
In-form stassin stuns the leaders...
With one eye on Tuesday's Coupe de France semifinal against Dunkerque, Luis Enrique rotated his side. The likes of Marquinhos, Ousmane Dembélé and Vitinha were all on the bench to start the match, and it looked from the off that the Spaniard had perhaps made a mistake, as Lucas Stassin scored the opener with just nine minutes on the clock. The in-form Belgian youngster (eight goals in 2025) found the net with a cushioned header from Zuriko Davitashvili's cross to give the hosts an early lead, and it would take the capital side some time to respond.
Just before the break, Gonçalo Ramos, starting in place of Dembélé, was brought down in the box, and the Portuguese striker duly converted, finding the top corner past Gautier Larsonneur to level the match. It stayed that way until the break, leaving PSG with it all to do if they hoped to capitalize on an earlier loss by Olympique de Marseille.
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But Doué makes the difference!
In the second half, PSG were quick to make the difference, though, as they scored four times in the span of a fifteen minutes to take a 5-1 lead just after the hour mark. First, they had to withstand a scare as Stassin nearly allowed his side to retake the lead on the counter, but Matvey Safonov was quick off his line to prevent the Belgian getting his double. Just moments later, it was Khvicha Kvarastkhelia who did give his team the lead, pressing Mickaël Nadé and scoring. Doué did more of the same three minutes, later, capitalizing on another Sainté mistake and doubling the lead with a low shot.
Eight minutes later, João Neves got in on the act, scoring from Bradley Barcola's cutback before Doué had himself a brace, scoring a fine solo goal by skipping through the home defence and lashing a shot into the roof of the net. The coup de grace would come from teenage substitute Ibrahim Mbaye, with Barcola playing an unselfish square ball to the youngster to make it 6-1, a result that sees the leaders 22 points clear of Marseille with seven matches to play, meaning that a draw in this evening's Côte d'Azur derby between AS Monaco and OGC Nice would see PSG champions for the fourth straight season.
The stat: 17
Ibrahim Mbaye netted his first goal for the capital side, making him the third-youngest scorer in club history at 17 years and 64 days.
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