Paris St Germain suffered more injuries by beating Stade Rennes 3-0 to increase their ligue 1 lead to five issues on Saturday.
Angel Di María scored two goals after a first match by Italian striker Moise Kean, who joined a long list of injured players, leaving coach Thomas Tuchel without all his great strikers the Argentine.
The result put French champions in 24 matches in 10 games before second-placed Lille Brest on Sunday, while Rennes remains third with 18 problems.
Moise Kean and Angel Di Maria in Paris Saint-Germain’s 3-0 win over Rennes
Kean, on loan from Everton, scored his fifth goal in four games for the French champion
Di Maria made the for the hosts as her quality shone in the 3-0 win
Kean scored his third goal in Ligue 1 in 4 games to give the hosts the lead in the 11th minute on a cross-goal after being set up through Di Maria, who used Rennes’ sloppy game.
PSG, already unscathed Neymar, Kylian Mbappé, Presnel Kimpembe, Mauro Icardi, Marco Verratti, Julian Draxler, Juan Bernat and Pablo Sarabia, suffered more misfortune when Idrissa Gueye took over the pitch to be replaced by Rafinha a minute later.
Di Maria then doubled his general 10 minutes later with a delicious balloon for his 85th PSG purpose before side Thilo Kehrer was ejected injured and replaced by Mitchel Bakker.
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