Champions in waiting stunned by five-star LOSC performance

Paris St Germain should wait to safe the Ligue 1 title after a humbling 5-1 defeat at Lille on Sunday.

Second-half targets from Nicolas Pepe, Jonathan Bamba, Gabriel and Jose Fonte noticed the second-placed facet inflict a painful defeat on the champions in ready, who had Juan Bernat despatched off within the 37th minute after shedding Thiago Silva and Thomas Meunier to damage.

Kylian Mbappe had two targets disallowed for offside within the first half, which noticed Lille lead via a Meunier personal purpose earlier than Bernat replied.

PSG’s eighth Ligue 1 title stays a matter of time however they’ve now handed up probabilities to substantiate it on consecutive Sundays after final week’s 2-2 draw with Strasbourg.

The Parisiens thought that they had taken an early lead when Mbappe touched house Meunier’s cross, however the purpose was appropriately disallowed for offside, and moments later it was Lille who went forward.

With their first actual assault, Jonathan Ikone crossed from deep on the best and Meunier inadvertently turned it into his personal web with Alphonse Areola wrong-footed.

PSG wanted 4 minutes to reply as Mbappe managed a bouncing ball and floated over a looping cross for Bernat to complete.

They thought that they had turned it round completely minutes later when Mbappe had the ball within the web, arrowing a end previous Mike Maignan after turning on the after-burners to get away from the Lille defence.

The assistant’s flag had stayed down however the Video Assistant Referee intervened, appropriately ruling Mbappe had been offside when he collected the ball simply contained in the Lille half.

PSG’s issues started to mount as they misplaced first Silva after which Meunier to damage, however the greatest blow to Thomas Tuchel’s game-plan got here eight minutes earlier than the break when Bernat was despatched off for a tug on Pepe.

It regarded smooth – with the contact absolutely not sufficient to ship the Lille man to the ground – however with Pepe via on purpose the referee caught by his choice after session with VAR.

Regardless of the setback, PSG had the following nice likelihood however Maignan made an incredible save low to his left to maintain out Julian Draxler’s close-range effort.

The primary half ended with PSG surrounding the referee as soon as once more as Thiago Mendes was booked for what they felt was a swipe at Marco Verratti, who was fast to benefit from it.

Whereas they argued, Lille captain Adam Soumaoro hobbled off to get replaced by Gabriel.

If that was a setback, you wouldn’t have recognized it from Lille’s second-half efficiency.

5 minutes after the break they struck on the counter-attack, with Pepe slipping the ball below Areola after Ikone’s ball break up the PSG defence.

Additional probabilities got here as the sport opened up. A scarcity of energy value Bamba a purpose when he beat Areola solely to see Thilo Kehrer collect the ball wanting the road, so he made certain that was not a problem within the 65th minute when he rifled the ball previous the keeper at his close to submit after breaking the offside entice.

PSG regarded misplaced and have been additional punished within the 71st minute when Gabriel headed in Pepe’s free-kick for his first Ligue 1 purpose.

Pepe was denied by Areola earlier than Dani Alves made an important intervention as Loic Remy went for purpose, however it could nonetheless worsen for the champions as ex-Southampton defender Fonte headed in Pepe’s nook for a fifth.