Argentine Lionel Messi led his team, Paris Saint-Germain, to victory over defending champion Lille 5-1 on Sunday in the twenty-third stage of the French Football League.

Saint-Germain settled its position in the first half by scoring a hat-trick through Portuguese Danilo Pereira (10), Presnel Kimpebe (32), and Argentine Lionel Messi (38), while he added two goals in the second half through Pereira himself (51) and Kylian Mbappe (67).

And scored for the loser the honorable goal of the Dutch defender Sven Putman (28).

Saint-Germain, who has not tasted defeat in its last 14 matches in “Ligue 1” (9 wins against 5 draws), raised it in first place to 56 points, 13 points ahead of runner-up Marseille.

Watch the goals of the paris saint Germain match – Lille 5-1

The capital club compensated for the failure of losing the French Cup title by losing at home to Nice on penalties 5-6 last Monday, and avenging Lille, who snatched the local title from him last season and won the Champions Cup competition.

Lille coach Joslan Gurvenik made the newcomer, 35-year-old veteran Hatem Ben Arfa, a key player against his former team (he was knocked out in the 70th minute), while Turkish striker Burak Yilmaz was absent from the team.

In terms of the capital club, there were many absences with the Brazilian Neymar, who resumed training a few days ago, the Spanish defender Sergio Ramos, the Dutchman Georgino Wijnaldum, the Spaniard Ander Herrera, and the Argentine striker Mauro Icardi, while the latter’s citizen coached Mauricio Pochettino with the trio of Messi and Angel Di Maria (he was injured in the 44th minute and replaced Instead, the German Julian Draxler) and Mbappe.

At the “Pierre-Morois” stadium, Saint-Germain opened the scoring 10 minutes after the start of the whistle after a mistake by Lille’s Croatian goalkeeper Ivo Grbic, who intervened to cut a ground pass from Portuguese Nuno Mendes, but he slipped the ball to follow the latter’s citizen Pereira in the goal.

And the owners of the land equalized after a wonderful individual effort from Ben Arfa, who manipulated De Maria and passed a ball inside the area, followed by Putman with an exhibition shot, which was touched by Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma without being able to stop it (28).

The capital club regained its lead after a corner kick from Messi passed over the goalkeeper, who failed to stop before Kimbebe intervened to score in the empty goal (32), then added the third Copa America champion, taking advantage of a frenzy in the defense to get the ball and penetrate and find himself in front of Grbich, “Poke “The ball is in the net (38), in his second goal in the “Ligue 1”, to return and take a wonderful free-kick from 20 meters that hit the crossbar (45).

Saint-Germain began the second half with pressure, as Messi starred as a pass for Mbappe in the 50th minute and shot after a minute that was blocked by the goalkeeper, before returning to Pereira after a pass from the young “flea” citizen Leandro Paredes outside the area and hit a creeping ground, scoring his fourth goal in the league this season.

Mbappe wrote his name on the list of scorers for his eleventh goal this season in the league, after an attack led by Messi and from him to Italian Marco Verratti and the French international striker at the edge of the area, who hit a superb ball in the opposite corner (67).