Sentence examples for top of the ligue from inspiring English sources

Lyon are currently equal on points with PSG at the top of the Ligue 1 table.

Ibrahimovic scored twice but it was not enough to get PSG the win and they trail Lyon by two points at the top of the Ligue 1 table.

The club underwent a major revival with finishes near the top of the Ligue 1 table between 2006 07 and 2008 09, which led to another top-division championship in 2009 10.

Despite sitting top of the Ligue 1 table, PSG have been far more impressive in the Champions League than they have domestically and it is hard to argue with Leanardo's claims.

PSG, nowadays the perennial winners of the domestic title, started the season with a couple of unexpected defeats and have since had to work hard to find a way back towards the top of the Ligue 1 table.

The win restored PSG's three-point lead at the top of the Ligue 1 standings over Lyon, who beat Lorient earlier in the day, while third-placed Marseille are now eight points adrift of the leaders, who are chasing their first title in almost two decades.

Having played the full 90 minutes on Saturday afternoon, Sakho then flew back to Paris to watch their Ligue 1 top-of-the-table clash with newly promoted Monaco, in what was being billed as a clash of the titans in a new age of French football.

The substitute Emmanuel Rivière scored a 79th-minute winner as big-spending Monaco moved to the top of the fledgling Ligue 1 table and handed Marseille their first defeat of the season with a 2-1 win at the Stade Vélodrome.

Last weekend's 2-1 win over Lens ended a run of two straight losses for Marseille as they sit top of the pile in Ligue 1. Their striker Andre-Pierre Gignac is Ligue 1's joint top-scorer with 10 goals but has not netted in his last three outings.

Lacazette has been at the top of the game in Ligue 1 for the past three years and there are those in Lyon who think that the 2014-15 season was his best one, when he formed an irrepressible partnership with Nabil Fekir, a touch player, who shares certain qualities with Mesut Özil.

Back under way in Marseille, who will go two points clear at the top of Ligue 1 if the score stays the same.