Paris Saint Germain 5-1 Montpellier: result and report
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 20 February 2019
Result
Paris Saint Germain 5-1 Montpellier
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 20 February 2019, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Paris Saint Germain 5-1 Montpellier: match report
Paris Saint Germain won against Montpellier 5-1 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 20 February 2019. The half-time score was 2-1.
Layvin Kurzawa opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Paris Saint Germain's goals came from Layvin Kurzawa (13'), Ángel Di María (45+1'), Christopher Nkunku (73'), an own goal by Vitorino Hilton (78') and Kylian Mbappé (79'). Montpellier scored through Florent Mollet (31').
Discipline: Paris Saint Germain received 2 yellow cards; Montpellier received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Paris Saint Germain were 1st on 62 points from 23 and Montpellier 6th on 38 points from 24. Paris Saint Germain went on to finish that season 1st with 91 points, and Montpellier 6th with 59.
Paris Saint Germain lined up in a 4-4-2 and Montpellier in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Layvin Kurzawa of Paris Saint Germain (8.5), ahead of Christopher Nkunku (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Paris Saint Germain wins, 4 draws and 1 for Montpellier.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Layvin Kurzawa
- 31'Goal · Florent Mollet
- 45+1'Goal · Ángel Di María
- 59'Yellow card · Ambroise Oyongo
- 64'Yellow card · Dani Alves
- 67'Yellow card · Marco Verratti
- 73'Goal · Christopher Nkunku
- 78'Own goal · Vitorino Hilton
- 79'Goal · Kylian Mbappé
Head-to-head
Team news
Paris Saint Germain line-up (4-4-2)
Gianluigi Buffon, Thilo Kehrer, Marquinhos, Presnel Kimpembe, Layvin Kurzawa, Christopher Nkunku, Dani Alves, Marco Verratti, Julian Draxler, Ángel Di María, Kylian Mbappé
Montpellier line-up (3-4-2-1)
Benjamin Lecomte, Pedro Mendes, Vitorino Hilton, Daniel Congré, Ruben Aguilar, Ellyes Skhiri, Damien Le Tallec, Ambroise Oyongo, Gaëtan Laborde, Florent Mollet, Petar Skuletic