Paris (AFP) - Paris Saint-Germain endure the nonattendance of Neymar and a Lyon fightback to win Sunday night's Ligue 1 conflict 4-2 at a stormy Parc des Princes, helped by Fernando Marcal's genuinely staggering second-a large portion of possess objective.
Runaway pioneers and safeguarding champions PSG were cruising at half-time with Angel Di Maria and Kylian Mbappe giving them a two-objective favorable position against a Lyon side bearing a baffling season.
At that point Marcal hilariously shot the ball into the top of his own net soon after the break, leaving Lyon taking a gander at another overwhelming annihilation in Paris, where they lost 5-0 right now season.
Notwithstanding, Martin Terrier and Moussa Dembele immediately pulled objectives back, leaving PSG requiring a late strike by substitute Edinson Cavani to verify the focuses.
It was an exhibition that displayed why they would ill be able to stand to be careless heading into their Champions League last 16, first leg away to Borussia Dortmund on February 18, despite the fact that they will want to have Neymar back by at that point. The world's most costly player passed on a second sequential match here because of a rib protest.
Without the Brazilian - just as his harmed comrades, Thiago Silva and Marquinhos, in safeguard - Thomas Tuchel's side made it eight straight successes and extended their unbeaten hurry to 21 games in all rivalries.
Lyon, then, have not won in three trips and this outcome leaves the seven-time previous victors in a modest ninth spot.
They are eight focuses loose of the Champions League qualifying spots and their up and coming European twofold header against Juventus looks sure to be out of line for them.
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How Rudi Garcia's side probably wished this match had been delayed because of the whirling wind and downpour brought about by Storm Ciara - which left ticker-tape from pre-coordinate fan shows strewn everywhere throughout the pitch - as they battled to stay aware of PSG in the primary half.
PSG tore forward to open the scoring halfway through the principal half as Idrissa Gueye bolstered Di Maria to cut in from the privilege and beat Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes with a low strike at his close to post.
Thomas Meunier then squared for Mbappe to score his fifteenth association objective of the period in the 38th moment after fine work by Mauro Icardi down the right, and both Icardi and Mbappe likewise had objectives prohibited for offside before the interim.
At that point, two minutes after the break, came what resembled the final blow.
An endeavored reduction by Julian Draxler was going no place before Thiago Mendes interceded, permitting Draxler to keep the ball in play and return it to the edge of the six-yard box, where the hapless Marcal pummeled it into the top of his own net.
In any case, Lyon hit back with Terrier's shot squirming under the assortment of Keylor Navas before Karl Toko Ekambi teed up Dembele to change over his thirteenth in the association this season only preceding the hour mark.
Mbappe had another exertion precluded and afterward hit the woodwork, and it was not until the presentation of Cavani - the fans' preferred diminished to job of bit-part player nowadays - that the home side ensured the focuses.
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Di Maria set up the Uruguayan to finish the scoring a short ways from time with what was his 199th objective for PSG.
They are 12 focuses away from Marseille, who beat Toulouse 1-0 on Saturday with a Dimitri Payet objective. Somewhere else on Sunday, Montpellier beat battling Saint-Etienne 1-0 and Strasbourg won 3-0 against Reims, with the two sides keeping in contact with the European spots
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