{"id":288477,"date":"2026-01-17T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288477\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:43:09","slug":"psg-3-0-lille-ousmane-dembele-scores-twice-as-ligue-1-champions-move-back-to-top-of-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288477\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG 3-0 Lille: Ousmane Dembele scores twice as Ligue 1 champions move back to top of table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ousmane Dembele scored twice as Paris St-Germain moved back to the top of Ligue 1 with a confident victory over Lille.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The French forward opened the scoring early on with a fine strike, curling a low effort into the corner of the net from 20 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dembele notched a spectacular second at the Parc des Princes just after the hour mark with an audacious chip from just inside the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradley Barcola added a third in injury time after capitalising on a mix-up in the Lille defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dembele won the Ballon d&#8217;Or last season but has suffered an injury-hit campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PSG coach Luis Enrique said despite the 28-year-old&#8217;s impressive attacking display he still needs to contribute in other areas of his game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone will say that Ousmane is the best player but for me, no, we still need to see the best version of Ousmane defensively,&#8221; Enrique said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because we need a player like him with a defensive mentality. He showed that last year and this year, he needs to continue that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PSG are two points above Lens, who will return to the Ligue 1 summit should they beat Auxerre on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ousmane Dembele scored twice as Paris St-Germain moved back to the top of Ligue 1 with a confident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-288477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115907906954981997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}