Kylian Mbappe marked his 25th birthday with a brace as Paris Saint-Germain beat Metz 3-1 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday to reach the halfway stage of the season five points clear at the top of the table.... more »
Aleksandr Golovin scored twice as Monaco battled back from a goal down to defeat Metz 2-1 on Sunday and return to the Ligue 1 summit, as winless Lyon slumped to the foot of the table.... more »
French champions Lille staggered to a toothless 0-0 draw at home to lowly Metz on Friday ahead of their midweek Champions League clash at Chelsea.... more »
Claude Puel became the first Ligue 1 coach to be dismissed this season after bottom side Saint-Etienne suffered a 5-0 loss at home to Rennes on Sunday.... more »
Talsmanic Turkish striker Burak Yilmaz was hailed 'a true leader' after forcing home a last gasp goal as Lille fought back to a 3-3 draw at Metz where the French champions opened their title defence on Sunday.... more »
Kylian Mbappe scored twice for the second game in a row but picked up a thigh injury as Paris Saint-Germain climbed top of Ligue 1 on Saturday with a 3-1 victory at Metz.... more »
Marseille suffered their first defeat under Jorge Sampaoli with a 3-0 loss at Nice on Saturday, while Bruno Genesio's Rennes made it back-to-back wins by beating Metz.... more »
Lyon slumped to a shock 1-0 home defeat to Metz on Sunday that ended a long unbeaten run and allowed Paris Saint-Germain to stay top of Ligue 1.... more »
Julian Draxler scored in added time on Wednesday night to give depleted Paris Saint-Germain their first league win of the season, 1-0 at home against Metz.... more »
Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane were the African stars in Europe at the weekend, with both scoring as Premier League leaders Liverpool snapped a mini all-competitions slump by beating Bournemouth 2-1 at Anfield.... more »
Five days out from facing Juventus in the Champions League last 16, Lyon clinched a morale-boosting 2-0 win at Metz on Friday in French Ligue 1.... more »
Egypt forward Mohamed Salah's double helped Liverpool equal Manchester City's record of 20 consecutive Premier League wins and move Jurgen Klopp's side ever closer to the title.... more »
Monaco saw their season take another turn for the worse with a shock 3-1 home defeat by Metz in the French Cup Tuesday on a sombre night for football in the country after the suspected death of former Nantes striker Emiliano Sala.... more »
Memphis Depay continued his hot streak of form as Lyon turned up the pressure in the fight for Champions League qualification in France with a 5-0 win at bottom side Metz on Sunday.... more »
Embattled Unai Emery's Paris Saint-Germain must put aside the pain from their prosaic Champions League exit to drag their focus back to domestic affairs with an unglamourous Ligue 1 tie against Metz on Saturday.... more »
Rony Lopes struck a dramatic late winner as Monaco recovered from two goals down and overcame the first-half dismissal of Keita Balde to stun Lyon 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Sunday.... more »
Andre-Pierre Gignac's double fired Marseille to a 2-0 win over relegation-bound Metz on Friday to boost the south coast giants' prospects of competing in next season's Champions League.... more »
Saint-Etienne kept up their bid for European football next season and added to relegation fears for Metz with a 3-2 victory in Ligue 1 on Saturday.... more »
Metz midfielder Florent Malouda will be out of action for at least three weeks after picking up a thigh muscle strain in the 2-0 defeat at Lyon at the weekend, the club announced on Wednesday.... more »