Brunner bags brace to take Monaco past Marseille and to the top of Ligue 1

[p]These two French top-flight heavyweights were both victorious on matchday one, with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/filipe-luis/CCTRYs3a/"]Filipe Luis[/a] and Bruno Genesio enjoying wins in their respective first league games in charge.[/p][p][b]Amidst the backdrop of a subdued Stade Louis-II, it was the hosts who struck first through [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/brunner-paris/roRHXioT/"]Brunner[/a]. The German rose highest in the box to meet [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/golovin-aleksandr/WSP08bVp/"]Aleksandr Golovin[/a]’s cross from the right and powered home a header past Jeffrey [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/de-lange-jeffrey/GGTSMhui/"]de Lange[/a].[/b][/p][embed guid="6f70a41c-63af-4330-bad8-9fba85c17a98" url="https://x.com/Ligue1_ENG/status/2094140685100228771/history" social-type="twitter" /][p] Brunner almost netted a second when he scuffed his first close-range attempt, before forcing the Dutchman into a save with his second strike.[/p][p]It was a familiar sinking feeling for a [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/marseille/SblU3Hee/"]Marseille[/a] side that had lost five of their previous seven league games on their travels, but [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/harit-amine/lxSgSRDd/"]Amine Harit[/a] looked to change that particular narrative when he fired a speculative attempt wide.[/p][p]The Moroccan was having an increasing influence on the match, and teed up [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gomes-angel/AmAtkgFg/"]Angel Gomes[/a] for a deflected effort which flew over the bar.[/p][p]Harit was looking for a penalty as half-time approached after going down in the box with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/sane-sadibou/O8reaWmD/"]Sadibou Sane[/a] in close proximity, but referee Willy Delajod waved away those appeals.[/p][p]Marseille began the second half promisingly with early chances for substitute [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/abdallah-keyliane/YisRM9NA/"]Keyliane Abdallah[/a] and Gomes after the restart, but it was Brunner who scored his and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/monaco/2PIvr8o4/"]Monaco[/a]’s second with a wonderful individual goal.[/p][p][b]The German latched onto [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/dier-eric/MXQtjBQt/"]Eric Dier[/a]’s long ball forward, turned past [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kondogbia-geoffrey/nZs03zT2/"]Geoffrey Kondogbia[/a], beat the defender again and manoeuvred his way past [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/egan-riley-cj/40JwLfzE/"]CJ Egan-Riley[/a] to fire an expertly-taken left-footed strike into the bottom corner. [/b][/p][embed guid="dac04238-9252-440d-913c-16d5622dc425" url="https://x.com/Ligue1_ENG/status/2094159296749588728" social-type="twitter" /][p]Kondogbia was clearly struggling in the aftermath and was forced off soon afterwards with an apparent hamstring problem.[/p][p]Les Monegasques pressed forward in a bid to rubber-stamp their victory, as Golovin’s attempted chip was kept out by De Lange, before the Dutchman was called into action again to deny [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/idumbo-muzambo-stanis/zRYlzwwb/"]Stanis Idumbo[/a] at his near post.[/p][p]Marseille offered very little going forward themselves, and had nowhere near the same level of attacking threat that they exhibited in the 4-0 win over [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/strasbourg/nP6UzIU1/"]Strasbourg[/a] nine days previously.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gouiri-amine/K0zFVdU8/"]Amine Gouiri[/a] scored twice that day, and had a rare chance to score here, only to see his close-range effort blocked.[/p][p]Les Olympiens ultimately failed to turn the tide in the principality, and succumbed to successive H2H league defeats for the first time since August 2017.[/p][p]It had been a bruising evening in more ways than one for Genesio’s men, with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/nnadi-tochukwu/CGRkJ7rQ/"]Tochukwu Nnadi[/a] and Gomes also forced off injured along with Kondogbia.[/p][p]Meanwhile, this win for Luís’ team takes them to the top of the table as the only side with a 100% record after two games.[/p][p][b]Flashscore Man of the Match: [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/brunner-paris/roRHXioT/"]Paris Brunner[/a] ([a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/monaco/2PIvr8o4/"]Monaco[/a])[/b][/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/marseille-SblU3Hee/monaco-2PIvr8o4/summary/stats/?mid=OvnzmiZQ"]Catch up on the match stats with Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p][image alt="Brunner's match stats" id="8dbbc92d-3a9f-4914-88a3-846837e7c717" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="c73b1485-d339-44c0-a40a-b32905f3133b" original-width="2160" original-height="2700" /]