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.
So, what's at stake for both sides today at the Parc des Princes.
Well, Thomas Tuchel isn't taking the game lightly despite the fact that the Parisian club face a crunch Champions League game with Liverpool in midweek.
Depending on the results of Lille and Montpellier, the Ligue 1 holders could find themselves 15 points clear at the top of the table today.
Toulouse are towards the bottom of the pack sitting between 10th and 18th place, who are currently separated by just five points.
Not a huge surprise that the hosts have seen the majority of the ball so far. Toulouse have set up in a 5-4-1 formation in a bid to try and reduce space for PSG, who are playing a 3-5-2 formation.
Seems like it may well be a battle of formations today.
That's nine goals in nine Ligue 1 games for Cavani. Angel di Maria cuts inside and after Baptiste Reynet fumbles the Argentine's shot, Cavani receives an Adrien Rabiot header, flicks the ball past Kelvin Amian before smashing in at the near post.
Bit of a pause here after a clash between Angel di Maria and Christopher Jullien. The game has gone into a bit of a lull but PSG still look in cruise control.
That's better from the visitors, who create a half-chance. Former Bournemouth man Max Gradel connects with a clipped cross from the right with an overhead kick but it poses no danger to Gianluigi Buffon's goal.
The Italian is in action a minute later though, tipping Gradel's whipped effort over the bar.
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.
Cavani doesn't have his two star teammates alongside him on Saturday (Getty)
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?
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