Paris Saint-Germain, the leaders, continued wasting points after falling for the second consecutive match at home, this time against Lyon 0-1 on Sunday in the 29th stage of the French Football League .
And Saint-Germain, who suffered its fifth loss this season, fell to Rennes zero-2 in the “Parc des Princes” during the last stage before the international stoppage, to freeze its score at 66 points, 6 points ahead of its new runner-up Lens, who beats Marseille III by goal difference.
Monaco, who beat Strasbourg 4-3, are fourth with 57 points.
Portuguese Saint-Germain defender Danilo said after the loss, "We do not respect the system, and we do not do everything we can. Even on our land, we do not give everything."
He added, "We have to do our best, it is difficult for us to win. We are in a difficult stage, we have to get out of it because our opponents are six points behind. We have to wake up. The title is not guaranteed at all, there are still a lot of matches...".
Lyon started as a defender, but he gave up his caution to get a penalty kick after a mistake by Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma on Alexandre Lacazette (39), who executed it himself and wasted it (39).
Lacazette missed 23 percent of the penalty kicks he took with Lyon in official competitions (7 out of 31), according to the "Stats Foot" statistics agency.
On the other hand, Saint-Germain searched for depth, similar to the move of the Portuguese Nuno Mendes, as the ball hit the hand of Lyon’s Croatian defender Dejan Lovren inside the area without the referee awarding a penalty kick (45 + 2).
Lyon compensated for the wasted penalty kick with a team game, which was started by Brazilian defender Thiago Mendes to Sail Combedi inside the area on the right side, and from him a cross passed in front of the goal and reached the young attacking substitute, 20-year-old Bradley Barkola, so the latter followed it up in the net (56) in his fourth goal in the match. 19 matches played in the league this season.
Moussa Dembele, substitute for Lacazette, hit a powerful ball that Donnarumma blocked in the second half (70), Moroccan Ashraf Hakimi responded to it from inside the area with a shot that passed by the post (81).
With this victory, Lyon advanced to ninth place with 44 points.
And for the second time in a row, the Argentine star in Saint-Germain, Lionel Messi, was booed by some of the “Parc de Princes” fans during the match, whose start was postponed for a period of 10 minutes from the scheduled time due to the late arrival of the bus that was carrying the Lyon team, according to what the Parisian club reported.
While announcing the team's squad over the loudspeaker, some fans booed when the Argentine star was mentioned, while some of them chanted "Messi!" Welcome to the Qatar World Cup champion.
The owner of the number 30 shirt was also subjected to whistles by spectators who were in the stands an hour before the starting whistle.
Messi played his 50th match with the capital club in the league, and last year he was a victim of whistles with his Brazilian colleague Neymar after the Champions League exit against Real Madrid.
The same scene was repeated this season after a new fall in the main continental competition against Bayern Munich, which leaves more than one question mark about the fate of the little “flea” in Paris.
During two seasons, Messi played 67 matches in various competitions, scoring 29 goals.
Monaco maintained its chances of booking a ticket to the Champions League competition, with a difficult victory over Strasbourg.
The Emirate club's quartet, which trailed 1-2 at the end of the first half, scored the Brazilian Fanderson (19), the French-Moroccan Elias Ben Saghir (54), substitute Aidan Diop (58) and Youssef Fofana (65), before the latter was sent off after 13 minutes. scoring his goal.
And he alternated with the Strasbourg trio, South African Lippo Motiba (32), Chilean Guillermo Maripan by mistake in his team’s goal (41), and Senegalese Habib Diallo (90 + 3).
Lille imposed its supremacy on its stadium, “Pierre-Moroy”, where it had not tasted loss since last August, thanks to two late goals from Kosovar substitute Idon Zegrova in the 89th and 90th + 1 minutes, after Remy Kabila opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Ibrahima scored for the loser, the financial substitute. Konya (78).
Lorient continued the meeting with ten players, after midfielder Laurent Abergil was sent off in the 79th minute.
This victory allowed Lille to monopolize the last fifth place that qualifies for European participation, with 52 points at the expense of Rennes, who lost 0-1 to Lens on Saturday, to freeze its score at 50 points in sixth place.
Reims returned to the winning streak by defeating Nantes 3-0, which was scored by Alexis Phillips (38 and 39) and Marshall Munetsi from Zimbabwe (58).
Nantes suffered a moral blow, as he fell three days before his match against Lyon in the semi-finals of the local cup.
The "Canary" team is only 4 points away from the relegation zone, as it occupies the fourteenth place with 30 points.
Reims, who had lost at home to Marseille 1-2 in the last stage before the international break, achieved its fifth victory in its last seven matches in the league, raising its score to 46 points in seventh place, a point ahead of Nice, which tied against its host Angers, bottom of the standings 1-1. .
Angers, who suffered 22 defeats this season, lost their chances of remaining in the first division, 9 stages before the end.
Clermont-Ferrand overturned its delay with a goal against its guest, Ajaccio, scored by Monem El-Idrissi from Moroccan roots (25) to a fatal victory 2-1, thanks to two goals by Gregan Key in the 60th and 90th + 3 minutes from two penalty kicks.
The match witnessed the expulsion of Mohamed Youssef from the Comoros with a red card, nearly 12 minutes after he entered the field.
Toulouse lost to Brest 1-3.