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Dembélé at the double as league leaders PSG down Toulouse – Sports

Dembélé at the double as league leaders PSG down Toulouse – Sports

Paris Saint-Germain went four points clear at the top of Ligue 1 with a 3-1 win at home against Toulouse on Friday night. Ousmane Dembélé scored the first of his two goals of the evening midway through the first half with an impressive long-range volley. Across the Channel, Chelsea have sidelined vice-captain Enzo Fernández after the midfielder fuelled speculation of a summer transfer to Real Madrid with comments he made over the international break. The Argentine’s two-game suspension starts from this weekend’s FA Cup quarter-final ties. The fallout from Italy’s failure to qualify for a third straight World Cup has now seen Gennaro Gattuso resign as national team head coach after less than a year in charge. Italian FA president Gabriele Gravina as well as the team’s delegation head Gianluigi Buffon have also stepped down from their positions in the wake of the play-off defeat. One of Britain’s longest-running annual sporting events, consisting of a series of boat races between students from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, takes place on the River Thames in …

Doué, Dembélé shine for PSG in first Paris derby since 1990

Doué, Dembélé shine for PSG in first Paris derby since 1990

Desire Doué and Ousmane Dembélé marked their returns to the Paris Saint-Germain starting XI by securing a 2-1 win over Paris FC on Sunday as the French capital enjoyed its first top-flight derby since 1990. Victory for Luis Enrique’s second-placed PSG, thanks to goals either side of half-time by Doué and Dembélé, took them back to within one point of surprise league leaders Lens. “I think it was Ousmane’s best game (of the season) tonight, he’s back to his best,” Luis Enrique said of his star attacker who has endured an injury-plagued campaign. Read moreFrance’s Dembélé named FIFA player of 2025, Spain’s Bonmati scoops women’s award The last time PSG lost at home to a newly-promoted side was in May 2010 when they went down 3-1 to Montpellier. But there were few chances of that streak being broken in the first top-division Paris derby since February 25, 1990, when Racing Paris 1 beat PSG 2-1 at the Parc des Princes home that they shared. None of the starters on either side at the Parc on …