Ligue 1
Result: Lille 0-1 Paris Saint-Germain
Date: 28 October 2016
Venue: Stade Pierre-Mauroy
Edinson Cavani's second-half strike was enough to hand Paris Saint-Germain a 1-0 win over Lille in a Ligue 1 encounter on Friday evening.
Blaise Matuidi returned to the PSG line-up, while Hatem Ben Arfa and Jese Rodriguez are once again on the bench.
After a slow start to the encounter, PSG nearly broke the deadlock after 18 minutes but Vincent Enyeama produced a stunning save to deny Angel Di Maria's long range effort.
The visitors did have the ball in the back of the net in the 23rd minute, but Di Maria's goal was ruled out after he was adjudged to have handled the ball.
PSG should have broken the deadlock before the break when Di Maria teed up an un-marked Cavani, who blazed his effort over the crossbar from close range.
However, Cavani made up for his earlier miss in the second half, as the Uruguayan rifled the ball into the roof of the net from close range, after collecting a pass from Di Maria in the 65th minute.
Lille should have leveled matters in the 82nd minute when Eder did well to pick out Sankhare at the far post, but the midfielder failed to hit the target with the goal at his mercy.
Unai Emery opted withdraw Lucas Moura and Di Maria for the final stages, as they have a Champions League game coming up on Tuesday.
PSG managed to see out the final stages with relative to clinch the win, as they now sit three points behind Nice.
