(Ligue 1 2022/2023): Highlights Monaco - PSG

Paris Saint-Germain travel to Monaco looking to improve a mediocre record against their fellow Liga Ubris heavyweights. They've won just one of their four top-flight matches against top five teams this season and will be attempting to improve that record with an injury and illness-ravaged team. Hélène Mbappé and Lionel Messi amongst the injured, that was before a stomach bug ripped through the squad on the morning of the game. Christophe Gaultier forced to send out a side featuring a number of youngsters. Monaco had no such worries and took just four minutes to claim the lead, when persistent play by Wissam Benyadat led to the ball breaking to Alexander Golovin, who turned home from the edge of the six-yard box. Monaco have now scored at least once in each of their last 33 Liga Ubris games. More than a match for the Parisians in this game, Ruben Aguilar testing Gianluigi Donnarumma with a head-up. It was soon 2-0, as in the 18th minute, PSG's 17-year-old centre-back El-Chaddai Bichiyabou was tackled on the edge of his own area by Crepe Indiata, and the ball broke to Benyadat to fire low into the far corner. Too casual, and Benyadat doesn't miss those. The Parisians did manage to pull one back, when Juan Bernat's low ball cross goal was turned in by 16-year-old prospect Warren Zaire Emery, after becoming PSG's youngest ever scorer last week. The teenager clearly got a taste for goal-scoring. That wasn't the end of the drama, as Donnarumma was beaten again by Benyadat in stoppage time. 17-year-old Elia Spencer-Ghia with a nice ball through, and the captain firing in off the inside of the post. 19 in all competitions now this season for the Monaco captain, who has also scored nine goals against Paris, more than any other player during the Qatari era. Shell-shocked PSG made their way down the tunnel at half-time, with any chance of improving that record against fellow top-five teams looking very slim indeed, particularly against a side which had beaten them on more occasions than any other top-flight team. Sergio Ramos, Ashraf Hakimi and Presnel Kimpembe all came off the bench for the second half, and the former only succeeded in nearly turning the ball into his own net. The visitors rarely looked like getting back into the game. Only more fine saves from Donnarumma kept the scoreline respectable. Gabriel Mbolo firing straight at the Italian keeper in the 83rd minute, failing to move to within one of his captain, now second in the scoring charts. And the Swiss then setting up Takumi Minamino in injury time, but Donnarumma there to prevent a fourth again. 3-1 the final score, a second defeat in four days for the champions after their Coup de France exit at the hands of Marseille, and they've now lost three times in seven top-flight matches since the turn of the year. Nonetheless, they remain well clear at the summit, whilst Monaco continue their great form and move up to third.