Ligue 1 Roundup: Ben Yedder scores twice as Monaco draws at Troyes

PARIS (AP) — Wissam Ben Yedder scored twice Sunday within the French league however couldn’t forestall Monaco from drawing 2-2 at struggling Troyes and dropping factors within the race for the Champions League.

Fighting with second-placed Marseille for the runner-up spot behind PSG, Monaco remained in third place, one level behind its southern rival.

Runaway chief Paris Saint-Germain has an 11-point lead over Marseille, which performed later at Rennes.

Marseille travels to Brittany on the again of a shock elimination within the French Cup midweek in opposition to second-tier Annecy, which adopted a bitter 3-0 house loss to PSG. That heavy defeat all however terminated its hopes of successful the league title.

Monaco trailed 1-0 with 10 minutes left within the Champagne city after Rominigue Kouame put the hosts within the driving seat with a first-half objective earlier than Ben Yedder struck twice within the area of 4 minutes.

Ben Yedder leveled within the 79th with a left-footed low shot, then doubled his tally from Aleksandr Golovin’s cross. Ben Yedder’s sixteenth objective this season was initially disallowed however finally given after a VAR examine.

Only PSG star Kylian Mbappe, who’s the league prime scorer with 18 objectives, has bagged greater than Ben Yedder within the French league this season.

Monaco couldn’t maintain onto its lead and conceded in added time as Ike Ugbo, left unmarked near the the objective, headed the ball house previous goalkeeper Alexander Nubel. Troyes remained in nineteenth place.