PSG KEEP BID ALIVE

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN maintained their slim Ligue 1 title hopes as the defending champions crushed Bastia.

Lucas put the hosts in front, Marco Verratti scored a controversial goal before the break and Edinson Cavani netted a double with Marquinhos wrapping it up in the second half as PSG moved level with Monaco, who have two games in hand, on 83 points with two games left.

PSG went ahead in the 32nd minute when Lucas latched on to a cross from Blaise Matuidi.

Verratti doubled the tally while Bastia keeper Jean-louis Leca was tending to the injured Matuidi, and Cavani increased the lead when he tapped in from Goncalo Guedes’s cross in the 76th minute.

Marquinhos made it 4-0, just after Cavani had missed a penalty. The Uruguay striker (left) made up for his miss a minute from time with his 33rd league goal of the season.