PSG sweep aside defiant Strasbourg to continue unbeaten Ligue 1 start | OneFootball

Scorers: Mayulu 18', Asensio 47', Barcola 66', Lee 90'; Mara 58', Diong 90+2'

Goals either side of half time helped PSG to a 4-2 victory over a defiant Strasbourg to keep pace with Monaco atop Ligue 1.

The reigning champions started the game slowly but Strasbourg could not take advantage of their early momentum. 18 minutes in, a nice move ended with PSG teenager Senny Mayulu grabbing his first Ligue 1 goal as he found the top corner from seven yards out to hand his side the lead.

Strasbourg still threatened towards the interval, but could not find a way past Gianluigi Donnarumma and headed into the break a goal behind.

Immediately after the half time break, their hopes of getting back into the game were dealt a major blow as Marco Asensio tapped home his second goal of the campaign virtually on the goal line, leaving the visitors with a mountain to climb.

But just before the hour mark, they pulled one back through former Southampton striker Sékou Mara, who got two chances to beat Donnarumma after good work from Bakwa and made the second count, finding a way past the Italian.

Their hope was fast extinguished though. After Bradley Barcola saw a penalty awarded before VAR overruled it, the Frenchman smashed the ball past Djorde Petrovic to restore his side's two goal advantage and dent any potential comeback hopes.

They added a fourth on the stroke of 90 minutes through Kang In Lee, before Strasbourg rallied once more to reduce it to a two goal deficit in stoppage time when Pape Diong scrambled home a loose ball from a corner, but it was too little, too late for the visitors and PSG kept hold of all three points.