{"id":239714,"date":"2025-10-25T18:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239714\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:11:20","slug":"achraf-hakimis-double-lifts-psg-to-win-over-brest-putting-pressure-on-marseille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239714\/","title":{"rendered":"Achraf Hakimi\u2019s double lifts PSG to win over Brest, putting pressure on Marseille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BREST, France (AP) \u2014 Achraf Hakimi\u2019s great attacking flair was on display Saturday as the Morocco defender\u2019s two goals led Paris Saint-Germain to a 3-0 win at Brest, moving it two points clear of Marseille at the top of Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After routing Bayer Leverkusen 7-2 midweek in the Champions League, PSG carried that momentum into domestic competition with another commanding performance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hakimi, a rock-solid right-back who also scored in the Champions League final last season, put PSG in front in the 29th minute with a right-footed volley from Vitinha\u2019s clever pass over the defense. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hakimi then doubled the lead 10 minutes later with a powerful strike from close range after Khvicha Kvaratskhelia caused havoc. They were his first league goals of the season and his third brace in the French topflight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Desire Dou\u00e9 sealed victory in added time, a few minutes after hitting the post, as the defending champion got back to winning ways in the league after two consecutive draws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marseille can reclaim the lead with a win at Lens later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brest, which slumped to a fourth defeat in nine league matches, had a good chance from the penalty spot around the hour mark but Romain Del Castillo lost his footing, slid and fluffed his shot, sending the ball over the bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREST, France (AP) \u2014 Achraf Hakimi\u2019s great attacking flair was on display Saturday as the Morocco defender\u2019s two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-239714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}