Mbappe on target again as PSG crush Montpellier

PARIS (Reuters) - Kylian Mbappe scored his 20th goal in 19 Ligue 1 appearances this season as French champions Paris St Germain thrashed Montpellier 5-1 at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday to go 15 points clear at the top.

Mbappe on target again as PSG crush Montpellier

(Reuters)





PSG now have 65 points after the rescheduled week 17 match, and a game in hand over second-placed Lille on 50.

It is the first time the 20-year-old France striker, who scored PSG's final goal of the night right-footed from the left of the box in the 79th minute, has netted 20 league goals in a single season.

Full back Layvin Kurzawa had opened the scoring for the runaway leaders with a 13th-minute header but Florent Mollet equalised in the 31st for the sixth-placed visitors when he fired into the top right corner from a free kick.

Angel Di Maria made it 2-1 from another free kick on the stroke of halftime before a sudden rush of goals in a six-minute spell after the break.

Christopher Nkunku scored in the 73rd with a header off a corner and PSG went 4-1 up after an own goal by Brazilian defender Vitorino Hilton, who deflected in a shot from Mbappe.

The PSG striker made sure his name was on the scoresheet with the home side's fifth a minute later.





(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in Barcelona, editing by Ed Osmond)


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