Ligue 1: Marseille lose to newly promoted Angers, Monaco stutter

Marseille's miserable start to the season continued with a 2-1 home defeat Sunday to newly promoted Angers.

Marseille's players were booed off the pitch at halftime and at the end of the team's third defeat of the season. Part of Stade Velodrome was closed after crowd trouble in Marseille's previous home match against Lyon.

Elsewhere, Montpellier recorded their first win of the season with a 2-1 victory over Lorient, while last year's runner-up Monaco was held 3-3 at Guingamp.

Saint-Etienne hosts Nice later and is looking to close the gap on leader Paris Saint-German to one point.

Angers is one of four teams on 15 points, five below PSG.

They went ahead in the 38th minute after Remy Cabella fouled Arnold Bouka Moutou and Thomas Mangani fired the penalty down the middle.

Marseille forced two good saves from visiting goalkeeper Ludovic Butelle immediately after the break, but Angers doubled its advantage in the 70th when Romain Thomas headed in Billy Ketkeophomphone's free kick.

Michy Batshuayi pulled one back for Marseille from the penalty spot 11 minutes from time after Fode Dore was harshly adjudged to have brought down Lucas Ocampos.

Monaco are eighth after their stuttering start to the season went on.

It took the lead three times but was pegged back on each occasion by Guingamp, including a last-minute equalizer by Nicolas Benezet - his second goal of the match.

Sloan Privat netted Guingamp's first goal after Bernardo Silva had opened the scoring. Andrea Raggi restored Monaco's lead on the stroke of halftime before Benezet's equalizer, and Nabil Dirar made it 3-2 in the 71st.

Montpellier hved lost six of their seven matches, drawing the other one, but they got off to the perfect start when Ramy Bensebaini netted a looping header in the seventh minute after Lorient failed to properly clear a corner.

Mustapha Yatabare almost doubled Montpellier's lead with another header but Lorient winger Romain Philippoteaux cleared off the line with his knee.

Rafidine Abdullah leveled with a stunning strike into the top right corner three minutes into the second half, but Jonas Martin fired Montpellier back in front in the 57th.

Abdullah was sent off in stoppage time for a high tackle on Jonas Martin.

Saint-Etienne missed the chance to close the gap on French league leader Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday as it fell to a surprise 4-1 defeat at home to a Nice side which ended the match with nine men.

Hatem Ben Arfa scored two stunning goals for Nice after Saint-Etienne defender Loic Perrin had cancelled out Vincent Koziello's fifth-minute opener.

Jean-Michael Seri scored Nice's other goal before teammates Nampalys Mendy and Maxime Le Marchand were dismissed in separate incidents.

Jean-Christophe Bahebeck missed a late penalty for Saint-Etienne, which remained four points behind PSG after the three-time defending champion's victory at Nantes on Saturday.