Diatta, Diop score as Monaco edges Strasbourg 2-1 in Ligue 1
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Krepin Diatta and Sofiane Diop scored for a weakened Monaco to prevail at Strasbourg 2-1 within the French league on Saturday.
In a conflict between contenders for European spots, Diatta opened the scoring with a strong volley from the sting of the field within the forty third minute. The Senegal winger might have added one other objective within the forty eighth however Strasbourg goalkeeper Matz Sels saved his chip.
Diop, a France Underneath-21 worldwide, doubled the lead by changing a rebound within the 53rd after Sels palmed away a deflected cross from Gelson Martins.
Strasbourg ahead Habib Diallo pulled one again within the sixty fifth by heading in a cross from Thomas Delaine.
Monaco and Strasbourg completed third and sixth, respectively, final season.
Sels restricted the harm by denying Martins within the thirty fifth, diverting onto the put up a close-range effort from Jean Lucas within the 61st, and saving a downward header from substitute Maghnes Akliouche within the eighty fifth.
Monaco goalkeeper Alexander Nubel preserved the win in harm time by stopping a point-blank shot from Adrien Thomasson.
Monaco missed the suspended Kevin Volland and Aleksandr Golovin, the injured Takumi Minamino, Benoit Badiashile and Myron Boadu, and an unwell Caio Henrique.
Later Saturday, defending champion Paris Saint-Germain visited Clermont.
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