avenged their League Cup loss to Guingamp by
demolishing them 9-0 in an almost perfectly great displa.
PSG, who prevailed through trebles by Edinson
Cavani and Kylian Mbappe, a Neymar double and a
Thomas Meunier goal, however, suffered the loss of
Marco Verratti.
The midfielder left the pitch after 13 minutes when
a Guingamp player stepped on his ankle.
There was another injury scare a few minutes later
when Neymar stepped off the field holding his
thigh, but he came back on and finished the match,
helping PSG stretch their lead to 13 points with two
games in hand.
placed Lille's 40 from 21.
Nine days after being knocked out of the League
Cup quarterfinals with a 2-1 defeat by Guingamp at
the Parc des Princes, PSG were on fire and came
close to claiming the largest home win in the
French top flight.
The record was set in the 1935-36 season when
Sochaux beat Valenciennes 12-1.
Neymar opened the scoring in the 12th minute after
collecting a superb through ball from Dani Alves,
beating Marc-Aurele Caillard from close range.
Mbappe made it 2-0 eight minutes before the break
with a cool finish after a one-two with Neymar and
doubled his tally on the stroke of halftime after
Cavani dispossessed Felix Eboa Eboa in the box.
He made it 4-0 in the 59th minute when he tapped
in from Juan Bernat's cross.
Cavani added another eight minutes later from
Angel Di Maria's pinched cross, and only two
minutes later, Neymar, perfectly set up by Mbappe,
found the back of the net again.
Guingamp's ordeal was far from being over, though.
Cavani beat Caillard when he tapped in from Layvin
Kurzawa's cross in the 76th, five minutes before
Mbappe also secured a hat-trick after making use of his
teammate's through ball.
Defender Meunier rounded off the humiliation with a
shot from inside the box.
Mbappe, Neymar and Cavani have now netted a
total of 44 goals in Ligue 1 with the Frenchman
leading the scoring charts with 17 goals.
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