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Caen 2 Monaco 2: Late Kouakou strike sends Caen third

Caen kept their Champions League qualification hopes alive by coming from behind twice to draw 2-2 with Monaco.

The hosts went into the game on the back of two consecutive victories, but Monaco took the lead 10 minutes into the second half when Thomas Lemar scored a goal that Lionel Messi would have been proud of.

Lemar’s dipping, curling free-kick crashed onto the post and bounced into the net from 25 yards, but Caen quickly bounced back when Julien Feret scored from the penalty spot after a handball in the box.

Caen’s determined performance was seemingly undone by a moment of brilliance from Monaco’s Portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva, who burst over the half-way line and played a one-two with Joao Moutinho before dancing into the box and sending over a cross that was bundled into the net by Caen defender Alaeddine Yahia.