- Julian Palmieri (90')
- Djibril Sidibé (2')
- Adama Noss Traoré (17')
- Fabinho (47')
- Kamil Glik (71')
Lille 1-4 AS Monaco
Monaco returned to the top of the Ligue 1 table thanks to a thumping 4-1 win in Lille.
Goals from Djibril Sidibe, Adama Traore, Fabinho and Kamil Glik ensured a comfortable evening in Lille for Leonardo Jardim's men, who underlined their title ambitions with a 3-1 victory over Paris St Germain before the international break.
Defeat for Lille means they have still only won once in the league this season, a slender 1-0 triumph against Dijon.
The visitors made a thrilling start when Sidibe, against his former employers, sent a superb free-kick beyond a static Vincent Enyeama after two minutes.
And another former Lille employee, Adama Traore, made it 2-0 on 17 minutes after tapping in Nabil Dirar's deflected delivery.
Lille tried to offer a response and Younousse Sankhare almost reduced the deficit after capitalising on some poor defending, but his volley crashed against Morgan De Sanctis' crossbar.
That proved to be a false dawn, though, as Monaco added a third shortly after the restart.
It came in some style when Valere Germain nodded Dirar's cross down for Fabinho and the Brazilian rifled a shot beyond Enyeama to prompt a furious reaction from the hosts' fans.
And the scoring did not finish there as the visitors added a fourth on 71 minutes when Glik grabbed his first Monaco goal, heading Joao Moutinho's delivery beyond Lille's Nigerian goalkeeper.
Julien Palmieri added a late consolation for Lille, hammering a lovely volley beyond De Sanctis from the edge of the area, but it did nothing to quell a disappointing night all round for the hosts.
Game Information
French Ligue 1 Standings
Team | GP | W | D | L | GD | P |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paris Saint-Germain | 31 | 20 | 10 | 1 | +47 | 70 |
AS Monaco | 31 | 17 | 7 | 7 | +17 | 58 |
Brest | 31 | 16 | 8 | 7 | +16 | 56 |
Lille | 31 | 15 | 10 | 6 | +18 | 55 |
Nice | 31 | 14 | 9 | 8 | +11 | 51 |
Lens | 31 | 13 | 7 | 11 | +6 | 46 |
Marseille | 31 | 11 | 11 | 9 | +9 | 44 |
Lyon | 31 | 13 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 44 |
Stade Rennais | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 | +7 | 42 |
Toulouse | 31 | 10 | 10 | 11 | -2 | 40 |
Stade de Reims | 31 | 11 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 40 |
Montpellier | 31 | 9 | 11 | 11 | -4 | 37 |
Strasbourg | 31 | 9 | 9 | 13 | -10 | 36 |
Nantes | 31 | 9 | 5 | 17 | -20 | 32 |
Le Havre AC | 31 | 6 | 11 | 14 | -11 | 29 |
Metz | 31 | 8 | 5 | 18 | -19 | 29 |
Lorient | 31 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -24 | 26 |
Clermont Foot | 31 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -25 | 25 |