PARIS (AP) Radamel Falcao scored a hat trick as Monaco posted a 14th straight win in the French league in a 4-1 thrashing of Dijon on Sunday.
The Colombia striker needed just three minutes to put the defending champions in command and added two more goals in the 38th and 51st minutes.
GOAL! You can never leave a tiger by himself. @FALCAO scores his second goal of the season to give @AS_Monaco_EN the 1-0 lead. #DFCOASM pic.twitter.com/I7URgku0kD
— beIN SPORTS USA (@beINSPORTSUSA) August 13, 2017
Jemerson was also on the scoresheet for the visitors in the 25th, and Wesley Said pulled one back for Dijon just before halftime.
Monaco is unbeaten in the league since December last year and equaled Bordeaux’s record of 14 consecutive wins, set in August 2009. It moved level on points with leader Lyon, with two wins in two matches of the new season.
With Kylian Mbappe expected to leave in the coming weeks, Monaco can still count on Falcao’s superb skills to score goals. Falcao now has four goals in two league games after scoring last weekend in a 3-1 win against Toulouse, while Mbappe stayed on the bench in Dijon.
Falcao’s goal instinct was on display as he made no mistake from close range after the hosts failed to clear a corner. Jemerson made it 2-0 from another corner and Falcao curled a superb shot into the top right corner to extend Monaco’s lead.
Said kept Dijon’s hopes alive with a shot between the legs of `keeper Danijel Subasic. It was a short-lived respite for the hosts as Falcao met a cross from Thomas Lemar to seal his team’s win with a header six minutes into the second half.
@FALCAO heads his 3rd goal in Dijon's goal. The 🐅 has a hat-trick now and is single-handedly putting away any hopes of a comeback. #DFCOASM pic.twitter.com/FFy1CgL0ZK
— beIN SPORTS USA (@beINSPORTSUSA) August 13, 2017