PSG played more than a half with ten men. Sergio Ramos was shown a yellow card after 41 minutes and protested so violently to the referee that he was penalized with another print. The 36-year-old defender was sent off for the 28th time in his career.
Lionel Messi missed PSG with a calf injury. Trainer Christophe Galtier let Neymar come in in the 57th minute. Azor Matusiwa, former player of Ajax, De Graafschap and FC Groningen, played the entire match for Stade Reims. Mitchell van Bergen, active in the past for Vitesse and sc Heerenveen, came in in the 76th minute.
League-leader PSG now has a 3-point lead over Olympique Marseille, which lost its undefeated status in the top French football league. Closer AC Ajaccio was surprisingly too strong for the team of trainer Igor Tudor in Marseille: 1-2. View the state of play in Ligue 1 here.
