PSG win; Nice slump to first defeat

PSG went ahead thanks to Gelson Fernandes’s own goal and Cavani doubled the tally before the break, three minutes before limping off the pitch with an injury. Adrien Rabiot and Marco Verratti scored the other two goals after the interval as PSG also hit the woodwork three times in an awe-inspiring display.

Benoit Costil deflected Cavani’s header on to Fernandes, the ball bouncing off the midfielder into the goal after 31 minutes. Cavani made it 2-0 in the 42nd minute with a splendid 20-metre lob but was forced to leave the field with a thigh injury. Rabiot put the result beyond doubt in the 67th minute with a long-range effort and Verratti rounded it off with a neat half-volley from inside the box from Hatem Ben Arfa’s cross. Nice had their first defeat of the season as Ivan Santini’s first-half penalty secured a 1-0 victory for strugglers Caen on Sunday.