(Reuters) – Paris St Germain recovered from a shaky begin to regain an 11-point lead in Ligue 1 as targets by Kylian Mbappe and Thilo Kehrer gave them a 2-0 residence victory in opposition to Stade Brestois on Saturday.
Mbappe and Kehrer discovered the again of the web both facet of the interval to put the capital facet on 50 factors from 21 video games a day after second-placed Nice beat Nantes 2-1.
The end result left Brest in thirteenth place on 25 factors.
Third-placed Olympique de Marseille will transfer stage on 39 factors with Nice in the event that they beat champions Lille at the Stade Velodrome on Sunday.
RC Lens are fourth with 33 factors after Seko Fofana’s stoppage-time objective earned the northerners a 2-1 comeback win at backside facet St Etienne earlier on Saturday.
At the Parc des Princes, PSG had been lacking Lionel Messi, who remains to be recovering from a COVID-19 an infection, and had to address the last-minute absence of goalkeeper Keylor Navas, who examined optimistic for the novel coronavirus.
PSG had gained their earlier eight league video games in opposition to Brest however the guests obtained off to begin and it took an important save from Gianluigi Donnarumma to deny Irvin Cardona early on.
Brest, on the lookout for their first top-flight win in opposition to PSG since 1985, had three pictures on course in the opening 20 minutes.
It was Mbappe, nevertheless, who broke the impasse in the thirty second with a scientific low shot from 16 metres for his tenth Ligue 1 objective of the season as PSG elevated the stress.
Marco Verratti got here shut to doubling the lead three minutes into the second half however his angled shot hit the submit.
PSG’s Germany defender Kehrer finally made it 2-0 in the 53rd minute when he fired residence from Nuno Mendes’s cutback.
Kehrer and Mbappe, who was booked for a scuffle with Hugo Magnetti in the first half, had different possibilities however Mauricio Pochettino’s facet had already wrapped a routine victory.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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