Ligue 1

Jerome Boateng could make his first Ligue 1 Uber Eats appearance of the season with the FIFA World Cup-winning defender part of the Lyon squad set to take ...

"If we don't put in everything, 100% of the ingredients, if we're at 90 or 85%, our position is around tenth or 12th in the table. The former Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen coach added: "We can see in the stats that he's in better shape than last season. The fact his team is one of three — along with UEFA Champions League participants Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille — to be unbeaten coming into Round 9 adds substance to Haise's words, but he admits the margins are very slim for his squad. "After a week, he got injured and has been out of the squad for two months. And now, Thiago Mendes has been playing in that position and Jerome got injured." He's not been lucky this season with his injuries," explained the Lyon boss of Boateng, who made just 27 competitive appearances for the seven-time French champions last season.

SportsBrief.com News ☆ Paris Saint-Germain forward Lionel Messi scored a wonderful freekick for the second game running on Saturday night after he curled ...

In the 27th minute, Messi launched an attack towards the Nice goal area but was hauled down by veteran Brazilian defender Dante. [World Cup](https://sportsbrief.com/tag/world-cup/). [PSG](https://sportsbrief.com/football/paris-saint-germain/).

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PSG kicks off the game and it is without Kylian Mbappe, who has been rested. He wins the freekick and he thumps it in. A rash of late summer signings seemed like a quick fix and created an unbalance to the side that Nice coach Lucien Favre has yet to resolve. PSG has more time on the ball and it builds up the game slowly and smoothly from the back. Nice makes a quick break, but the passing in the buildup wasn’t accurate enough and that move comes to an end. A cross is floated in from the right and it is Laborde who had the composure to take it down and pump it past Donarumma. Nice tries to regain some of the lost momentum, but it is lacking in the final pass. A bit of Messi magic was all it needed for the game’s balance to turn. It is 1-1 and it is game on! Messi and Bernat link up down the left and Messi shoots with venom, but Schmeichel had that in his sights and punched it away. Messi and Neymar stitch together a move before the Argentinian set up Vitinha to shoot. Mukiele, a second half sub, got past the defense into the right hand byline and he cuts it back for Mbappe for a simple finish.

Kylian Mbappé came off the bench to score a late winner after Lionel Messi's opening goal had been cancelled out as Paris Saint-Germain defeated Nice 2-1 on ...

The seven-time Ballon d'Or winner is making up for a mediocre (by his standards) first season in French football with a rip-snorting start to this one. An eighth Ligue 1 Uber Eats goal of the season was the inevitable outcome (83') to move PSG two points clear of Marseille — 3-0 victors over Angers 24 hours earlier — at the top of the table. Galtier did that with 30 minutes to go, and — as so often already this season — the FIFA World Cup winner delivered.

Kylian Mbappe came off the bench to give Paris St Germain a 2-1 home win against Nice as the French champions reclaimed top spot in Ligue 1 on Saturday.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com The goal prompted Galtier to send on Mbappe in place of Ekitike. The Argentine came close to scoring again on the stroke of halftime with a fierce strike, only for Kasper Schmeichel to tip the ball over the crossbar.

Kylian Mbappe was the saviour for Paris Saint-Germain as they left it late to beat a stubborn Nice side 2-1.

Messi steps up to take the free-kick he won on the edge of the box and wow, he curls it into the top corner. PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN 2-1 NICE (KYLIAN MBAPPE): Mbappe to the rescue! Relatively fresh off the bench, the Frenchman is left unmarked to sweep home Mukiele's pull-back. It's a simple cross sent into the box by Atal from the flank that PSG fail to deal with and Laborde is in the right place to slot it home from point-blank range. It seemed to be a question of how many goals they would beat an out-of-sorts Nice by. The manager’s decision was rewarded when he bagged a winner seven minutes from time.