Marseille closed the hole on leaders Paris Saint-Germain to seven factors on the high of Ligue 1 after crushing strugglers Le Havre 5-1 on the Velodrome on Sunday because the season approaches the midway level.
Valentin Rongier, Bilal Nadir, Neal Maupay, Elye Wahi and Ulisses Garcia scored the objectives for Roberto De Zerbi’s staff, who additionally moved three factors away from third-placed Monaco with the victory.
Marseille have gained 5 and drawn one among their final six outings in all competitions, and have scored 9 objectives in two matches both aspect of the fortnight-long winter break.
Rongier drove within the first from distance on 25 minutes and Nadir fired a low shot into the far nook to make it two, the 21-year-old scoring his first senior objective on simply his second Ligue 1 begin.
Maupay, who’s on mortgage from Everton in a deal that can develop into a everlasting switch on the season’s finish, headed in Marseille’s third objective earlier than the interval.
Nadir, who was beginning within the absence of the sick Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, didn’t reappear for the second half as Marseille added a fourth objective on 66 minutes when Mason Greenwood squared for substitute Wahi to faucet in.
Garcia, additionally on from the bench, accomplished the scoring for the house aspect as De Zerbi’s males scored 5 in a Ligue 1 recreation for the third time this season.
Le Havre, who’re within the relegation zone, pulled one again late on when former Marseille participant Andre Ayew headed in.
PSG beat Monaco 4-2 away in December, simply earlier than the winter break, in a fixture that was introduced ahead as a result of the perimeters met within the Champions Trophy in Qatar on Sunday.
The Parisians gained that recreation 1-0 to say the primary trophy of the French marketing campaign.
Elsewhere on Sunday, Champions League revelations Brest slumped to a 2-0 defeat away at Angers, a consequence which leaves them twelfth in Ligue 1 because the season reaches its halfway stage subsequent weekend.
Toulouse have been shock 1-0 winners at Lens due to a Zakaria Aboukhlal penalty, whereas Strasbourg got here from behind to beat Auxerre 3-1 in Alsace.
Lyon, Good and Saint-Etienne additionally gained over the weekend.
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