Monaco 3-1 PSG: Wissam Ben Yedder nets twice to sweep aside visitors
Monaco 3-1 PSG: Wissam Ben Yedder nets a double to help sweep aside much-changed Ligue 1 leaders ‘after the squad were hit by a virus with players left VOMITING’ – just days before Champions League clash against Bayern Munich
- Monaco inflicted a third league defeat of the season on PSG in their 3-1 rout
- The hosts controlled proceedings against a much-changed PSG side
- The Ligue 1 leaders had been hit with a vomiting bug in the build-up to the game
PSG suffered just their third defeat of the season as Monaco inflicted a dent in the Parisians title hopes with a 3-1 home victory over their sickness-hit visitors.
Aleksandr Golovkin opened the scoring for the hosts inside five minutes as his shot nestled in the back of the net to stun a much-changed PSG.
Wissam Ben Yedder scored the first of his brace in the 18th minute to double Monaco’s advantage before 16-year-old Warren Zaire-Emery pulled one back for the struggling league leaders.
PSG had been hit with a sickness bug in the days leading up to Saturday’s classic clash with some players throwing up and claiming of stomach aches. Neither Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappe featured in Saturday’s heavy loss.
Ben Yedder restored Monaco’s two-goal cushion in additional time at the end of the first-half as his powerful strike went in off the post. A lacklustre second-half was merely a formality as the European-chasing victors secured an impressive victory over PSG.
Monaco’s Wissam Ben Yedder scored twice in the dominant victory over PSG on Saturday
Neymar (black shirt) was PSG’s sole superstar on show with Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi unavailable through injury
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