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Ligue 1: Mbappe on target twice in PSG cruise

Kylian Mbappe scored twice to take his tally to 18 goals in Ligue 1 this season as Paris Saint-Germain eased to a 4-0 victory at bottom club Dijon on Saturday to keep the pressure on leaders Lille in the title race.

Moise Kean and Danilo Pereira also scored for Mauricio Pochettino’s team, who bounced back from a 2-0 home defeat by Monaco last weekend and moved back up to second place in the table, a point behind by Lille.

The leaders play on Sunday at home to Strasbourg, while Lyon are two points behind the capital club but can leapfrog them again with a win at Marseille, also on Sunday.

Fourth-placed Monaco are six points off top spot but can extend their unbeaten run to 12 games when they face Brest in the principality.

Former Monaco striker Mbappe had been kept quiet by his old club last weekend but he got back among the goals against the division’s bottom side, who have now lost their last seven games.

Mbappe had scored twice when PSG beat Dijon 4-0 at home in October and repeated the feat here to move onto 23 goals for the season in all competitions.

The victory was achieved in the ongoing absence of Neymar, with the world’s most expensive player missing a fourth consecutive game with a groin injury.

He has returned to individual training but, having already missed the first leg, he remains a doubt for the Champions League last-16 return match at home to Barcelona on March 10.

Angel Di Maria, Marco Verratti, Mauro Icardi, Leandro Paredes and Alessandro Florenzi were also missing at the Stade Gaston-Gerard along with long-term injury victim Juan Bernat.

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On-loan Everton striker Kean kept his place and he opened the scoring inside six minutes, taking a touch and poking the ball home from close range after being set up by Abdou Diallo.

Kean, who was also on target twice in the last meeting of the sides, has now scored 15 times for PSG, who could well be convinced to make his loan move into a permanent transfer come the season’s end.

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