Metz 1-2 Monaco result, stats and report

Pape Moussa Fall scored three times as Metz dismantled Rodez 4-1 at home in Ligue 2, delivering the kind of dominant, competitive performance their previous four matches had failed to produce.

Monaco came to Paris and left with all three points, winning 2-1 despite PSG dominating possession and piling up 17 shots. Nazinho and Stanis Idumbo scored the goals that mattered. PSG had no answer for it.

Monaco beat Marseille 2-0 in Ligue 1, with Paris Brunner scoring twice to expose a visiting side that dominated possession but couldn't convert their chances when it mattered.

Saint-Étienne arrive in Moselle as the most clinical side in Ligue 2 this season, but a trip to Stade Saint-Symphorien offers a very different kind of examination from the one they have faced so far.

Monaco welcome Lens to the Principality on Saturday in a Ligue 1 fixture that sets two sides with attacking momentum against one another, though neither has yet demonstrated they can defend consistently away from home.

Red Star host Metz on Monday evening with both sides sitting level on five points, but the patterns behind those numbers tell very different stories about how this match is likely to unfold.

Ismaïla Sarr's agent, Diomansy Kamara, has accused clubs of treating African players as commodities after Crystal Palace blocked a Liverpool bid for Sarr and Monaco reneged on a deal that would have sent Lamine Camara to Chelsea. Both players are Senegalese internationals now left in limbo after chaotic deadline-day breakdowns.

Liverpool are chasing Chelsea's Estêvão and other wide forwards as their deadline-day frontline scramble intensifies, but a more concrete story has slipped under the radar: Chelsea appear to have already beaten Liverpool to Monaco's Lamine Camara.