(AFP) - French football star Kylian Mbappe saved his team, Paris Saint-Germain, from a new disappointment when he scored the winning goal against Brest 2-1 in the last minute, Saturday, in the twenty-seventh stage of the local league.
Saint-Germain, who was eliminated from the French Cup competition by losing to arch-rivals Marseille last month, moved away by 11 points from the latter, which hosts Strasbourg on Sunday.
Mbappe took the captain's armband in the absence of Brazilian defenders Marquinhos and Presnel Kimpembe due to the injury that also kept Moroccan international defender Ashraf Hakimi from today's match.
Saint-Germain entered the match, dragging behind him the disappointment of being knocked out of the final price of the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich, who beat it 1-0 and 2-0 away.
The victory is the eleventh in a row for Saint-Germain over Brest, and the last time he wasted points in his confrontation was the 2010-2011 season when they tied 2-2.
The first chance in the match was for Saint-Germain, when Spaniard Fabian Royce passed the ball into the area, and Argentine Lionel Messi missed it, before Spaniard Carlos Soler hit it hard and was on its way to the top corner, but Brest goalkeeper Marco Bezu brilliantly pushed it away (11).
But Bezu made a mistake when he mishandled a powerful ball that Mbappe fired from 30 meters, so he lost sight of Soller, who followed it into the roof of the net (36), scoring his third goal since his move from Valencia early this season.
The capital team did not enjoy a long lead, because Brest responded with the equalizer by Frank Honora, who fired into the net of Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma (43).
The goal is Honora's fifth this season, making him the second best scorer in the team, behind Jeremy Le Duaron (6 goals).
The goal is the fourteenth that enters Saint-Germain's goal in the last 8 matches in various competitions.
The match was stopped for a few minutes after the Brest fans threw firecrackers, causing thick smoke that obscured the vision.
In the second half, Mbappe missed an easy opportunity when he hit outside the three woods from a good position (62), then Bezu saved Messi's spiral shot with his left (65).
The Portuguese left back, Nuno Mendes, missed the Brest goalkeeper, who saved his attempt (78).
And when the match was heading towards a tie, Mbappe broke the offside trap after an elaborate pass from Messi, so he singled out the goalkeeper, dribbled him, and scored into the empty goal in the last minute.
The goal is the nineteenth for Mbappe in the league this season, so he is equal at the top of the scorers’ ranking with Canadian Lille striker Jonathan David, who scored a hat-trick against Lyon (3-3) on Friday at the opening stage.

On the other hand, fifth-placed Rennes failed to put pressure on third-placed Monaco and fourth-placed Lens by falling into a goalless draw against Auxerre.
Rennes now scores 47 points, compared to 51 for Monaco and Lens, who face Reims and Clermont-Ferrand, respectively, on Sunday.
Auxerre got out of the relegation zone temporarily and climbed to the sixteenth place with 23 points, noting that it is going through a good period as it did not lose in the last six matches, with two wins and four draws.
Rennes, who lost 0-1 at home to Marseille last week, played the match in the absence of Belgian striker Jeremy Duques, and his attempts were shy and did not pose a threat to the Auxerre goal.
Auxerre almost opened the scoring, but Gauthier Hen's ball bounced off the crossbar (17), then the same player tried again and hit the side of the post (25).
Having withstood the attacks of Auxerre in the first half, Rennes appeared with a different and more dynamic face in the second, and despite its high possession rate (68 percent), its attackers did not succeed in finding its way to the goal, despite the attempts of Batiste Santamaria (55) and Amine Guerre (62). ).
Auxerre responded with Isaac Toure's header from a corner kick (67'), while Nuno da Coste's ball passed over the crossbar of former Rennes international goalkeeper Steve Mandanda (77').