Football: Falcao Header Fires Monaco Top
Muhammad Rameez Published September 17, 2016 | 10:55 PM
PARIS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -17th Sept,2016) : A towering Radamel Falcao header helped send Monaco top in France on Saturday as a 3-0 home win over Rennes saw them leapfrog Paris Saint Germain.
The win means Leonardo Jardim's Monaco have 13 points from five games ahead of PSG on ten, while Nice can join Monaco at the top with a win at Montpellier Sunday. This was Monaco's seventh consecutive win and follows a slick 2-1 triumph over Tottenham at Wembley in the Champions League in midweek.
Falcao's career has hit the buffers since quitting Atletico Madrid saw him endure unsuccessful injury-blighted loan stints at Manchester United and Chelsea. But on Saturday, the 30-year-old Colombian leapt high at the back post and powered in a header in the 42nd minute to score his first goal for Monaco since August 2014 -- 755 days ago.
Rennes, who had made the long journey from Brittany, rarely had the south coast side in trouble and lost concentration as the slightly built 20-year-old Thomas Lemar scored twice at the end of the game.
His first was a far post tap-in set up by Bernardo Silva and the second a lob which left Rennes keeper Benoit Costil watching the ball drop behind him into the net. Rennes captain Pedro Mendes saluted the winners.
"That is one very good side and we won't be the only ones to suffer here," he said. On Friday, Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani banged four goals past Caen in a 6-0 win for PSG. Lucas Moura and Jean-Kevin Augustin added the other two goals after the break as PSG ended a run of three games without a win in all competitions.
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