Ligue 1 round-up: Mbappe lights up France with four-goal display

Paris Saint-Germain ran riot over rivals Lyon to prolong their perfect start to the season and maintain an eight-point lead at the top of Ligue 1. Thomas Tuchel’s side finished 5-0 winners at the Parc des Princes but the game was actually in the balance for 60 minutes.

Both sides were reduced to 10 men in the first half, with a Neymar penalty the only thing separating the two sides until Kylian Mbappe scored four times in a devastating 13-minute spell after the hour mark.

Mbappe unsurprisingly finished the match with a perfect WhoScored 10 rating. No player in Ligue 1 could equal the teenager’s achievements this weekend.  The France international hit the target with six of his nine shots and was even denied a fifth goal by the woodwork.

He created three goalscoring chances for his team-mates but it was his lethal finishing that finished Lyon off. The 19-year-old isn’t the only youngster that has caught the eye in France this season. Lille forward Jonathan Bamba’s fine start to the campaign continued at the weekend, scoring a brace for the second game in a row.

Bamba, 22, has now scored seven league goals this season and even provided his first assist of the season in a 3-1 win over Saint-Etienne on Saturday. The French attacker scored twice from three shots and impressively completed 91.3% of his passes. A WhoScored rating of 9.13 ranks second among Ligue 1 players over the weekend.

Rounding off the top three is Bordeaux starlet Francois Kamano (8.89), who was also among the goals this weekend. The 22-year-old, like Bamba, has seven for the season after a two-goal salvo against Nantes on Sunday. Kamano was a constant threat, attempting five shots in total, while also completing three dribbles and drawing two fouls.

Unsurprisingly, the lowest WhoScored rated player from the weekend’s action in Ligue 1 comes from Lyon’s crushing 5-0 defeat against PSG. Lyon looked to have found a way back into the tie when Presnel Kimpembe was sent off with PSG leading 1-0 before Lucas Tousart was shown his marching orders on the stroke of half-time.

Tousart, who has now been sent off in his last two league appearances, had made two tackles and registered one key pass prior to his dismissal. Nevertheless, Tousart finished with a WhoScored rating of 4.97.