Toulouse host Euro heroes PSG

Leaders Paris Saint-Germain face mid-table Toulouse this weekend as they look to extend the gap at the top of Ligue 1.

Fresh from a terrific Champions League win in Germany, Paris Saint-Germain will look to maintain their distance from nearest challengers Monaco in Ligue 1 this weekend.

Laurent Blanc's PSG side are five points clear at the top of the table, and on Sunday they travel to face mid-table opposition in Toulouse.

The capital club have one foot in the Champions League quarter-finals after a Zlatan Ibrahimovic brace helped them to a 4-0 win away to Bayer Leverkusen in the first leg of their last-16 tie on Tuesday.

Coach Laurent Blanc will now be looking for his team to extend a run of nine games without defeat in the league.

"I think that we saw the Paris of the first half of the season, with the desire to create and to take our chances. We maintained our footballing philosophy while also being clinical in front of goal," said Blanc in relation to the display in Leverkusen.

PSG will only be two points clear at kick-off if Monaco beat Reims at the Stade Louis II on Friday.

Monaco are still unbeaten in nine matches in 2014, but they may find life tough against a Reims side who held them in the reverse fixture in September and then won when the teams clashed in the League Cup in October.

The current top two have opened a significant gap on the rest, with Monaco eight points clear of Lille in third, but the northern side's grip on the final Champions League qualifying berth is far from secure.

Saint-Etienne, Marseille and Lyon all lie within five points of Rene Girard's team and Sunday night sees Lille host OL at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.


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