Marseille rose to the runners-up of the French Football League by defeating its guest Troyes 3-1, while Monaco returned to the winning streak by dropping Lorient by the same result, to rise to fourth place, within the thirty-first stage competitions on Sunday.

Thanks to the double of Portuguese Vitor Oliveira (2 and 64) and a third goal by the Turkish Cengiz Onder (40), Marseille achieved its first victory at its “Velodrome” stadium after three draws and two losses, despite a late goal for Troyes by Mama Baldi from Guinea-Bissau (90 + 1).

Thus, Marseille raised its tally to 64 points in second place, taking advantage of the third Lens fall (63 points) against leaders Paris Saint-Germain (72 points) Saturday 1-3.

Before that, Monaco won a hat-trick, scored by Senegalese Crippen Diata (14), Russian Alexander Golovin (27), and German Kevin Volland (55), while Malian Ibrahima Kone scored Lorient's only goal from a penalty kick (86).

With this victory, Monaco rose to fourth place with 61 points, while Lorient remained in tenth place with 45 points.
Prior to that, Lille overturned its deficit against its guest, Montpellier, with a goal to win 2-1 within two minutes, and regained fifth place in its European race.

Lille raised its score to 55 points and regained fifth place, two points ahead of Rennes, which won 3-0 at home to Reims on Saturday, while Montpellier's balance stuck at 37 points in thirteenth place.

Montpellier advanced through his Guinean defender Isiaga Sela in the 24th minute of the first half, before Lille rose up in the second and snatched two goals in two minutes through Canadian Jonathan David (70), who scored his 20th goal this season and equaled with Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe at the top of the scorers’ ranking. And Remy Kabila's header (72).

On the other hand, Nice suffered a surprising loss to its host, Brest, with a clean goal scored by Jeremy Le Duaron (12).
With this loss, Nice remained in ninth place with 45 points, while Brest rose to sixteenth place with 31 points.

On the other hand, Egyptian international Mostafa Mohamed scored a wonderful goal in the match that his team Nantes lost to Auxerre 1-2.
Mustafa's goal came in the 55th minute with a powerful header from inside the penalty area, knowing that Auxerre was ahead with two goals scored by Brazilian Gobal (5 from a penalty kick) and Nuno da Costa from Cape Verde (43).

With this loss, Nantes remained in fifteenth place with 31 points, behind Auxerre fourteenth with 32 points.
In two other matches, Clermont-Ferrand beat Angers 2-1, and Strasbourg beat Ajaccio 3-1.