Early Edinson Cavani goal eases PSG past Toulouse
Relive all the action from the Ligue 1 fixture at the Parc des Princes
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Your support makes all the difference.Champions Paris St Germain continued their perfect start to the Ligue 1 season as an early Edinson Cavani strike earned them a 1-0 win at home to Toulouse on Saturday, their 14th straight victory.
Uruguayan striker Cavani notched his ninth league goal of the campaign with a close-range finish just nine minutes into the game at the Parc Des Princes, but PSG's much-vaunted attack misfired for much of the rest of the match.
With attacking duo Neymar and Kylian Mbappe both sidelined after picking up knocks on international duty last week, PSG coach Thomas Tuchel started with Julian Draxler and Angel Di Maria up front alongside Cavani.
Despite starting the day two points above the drop zone, Toulouse showed no fear of a PSG side that has been averaging over three goals a game at home, and their strong defending provided a springboard for plenty of attacks of their own.
Substitute Jimmy Durmaz was the driving force behind several promising second-half counter-attacks for the visitors, but the PSG backline, marshalled by Gianluigi Buffon in goal, managed to hold firm.
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Relive all the action below.
What time does it start?
Paris Saint-Germain vs Toulouse kicks off at 4pm (BST)
Where can I watch it?
The match will not be shown live on TV or online in the UK.
Independent Sport will keep you up to date with all the goals as they fly in via our live blog.
Highlights will be shown at 1am on BT Sport 1.
Player to watch…
Edinson Cavani: The Uruguayan heaped more misery on Monaco with a hat-trick last time out. The three goals saw the 31-year-old take his tally to eight goals from as many league games so far this season, and with both Kylian Mbappe and Neymar likely to miss the game after sustaining injuries on international duty, the attacking burden will solely fall on the former Napoli man.
Form guide…
Paris Saint-Germain: WDWWDW
Toulouse: DLLLDL
Odds…
Paris Saint-Germain to win: 1/9
Toulouse to win: 16/1
Draw: 8/1
(Odds provided by 888 Sport)
Prediction
PSG 2-0 Toulouse: Home win. What? Did you expect me to say anything else?
5 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
Fairly even start at the Wanda. While Barcelona have seen more of the ball, Griezmann has dropped back to really crowd the midfield when the Catalans are in possession.
10 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
Atletico have lost the fewest amount of matches of any La Liga side this season, and they show why as they have so far managed to frustrate the likes of Messi and Arturo Vidal who have seen plenty of the ball so far.
15 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
Huge tactical battle ongoing at the Wanda. Barcelona are being invited to come forward but Atleti have not been troubled by what the Catalans have had to offer so far.
Griezmann and Costa have seen little of the ball so far though for the hosts.
20 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
Messi has 26 goals in 18 games against Atletico Madrid, and he is starting to weave his magic down the right-hand side here. His corner is eventually fed to Sergi Roberto, but the Spaniard's cross is poor and Oblak claims easily.
25 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
It's been a rather passive half of football so far and Atletico Madrid's approach so far is bordering on negativity very rarely seen under Diego Simeone.
It's been so tepid that the ever-reliable Koke overhits his pass to spread the play to Santiago Arias.
29 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
It is his 500th appearance in a Barcelona shirt tonight, but I don't think this is quite his 500th yellow card (just yet anyway).
But Sergio Busquets does go into the book, despite trying to pull away in a challenge with Lucas Hernandez.
36 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
Ten minutes until half-time and goalmouth action has been extremely limited, to say the least.
Barcelona are the side to have inflicted the most defeats on Diego Simeone's Atletico and a more conservative approach from the hosts is therefore expected.
But they have been slow in possession and have not exploited a at times weak Barcelona defence, who have welcomed Samuel Umtiti back at centre-back this evening following injury.
40 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
Lucas Hernandez turns from victim to perpetrator. He gets the ball when challenging with Messi after Oblak's poor clearance, but the referee books the Frenchman nonetheless.
It may be an evening to forget so far for both sides, but Sergio Busquets will remember it for a long time to come.
42 min: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Barcelona
That's a real collector's item, as Messi blazes over a free-kick from the right. No attempt on goal yet with the Argentine, Luis Suarez, Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa all on the pitch.
It's nearly an embarrassing moment at the other end of the pitch, but ter Stegen claims his miscued clearance.
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