Stevan Jovetic fell off the seat to score a fine victor as second-put Monaco beat Lille 2-1 at home in the French class on Friday.
The Montenegro forward planned his run consummately to hook onto a resistance part go from Portugal midfielder Joao Moutinho, and gently cut the ball over goalkeeper Mike Maignan in the 61st moment.
Guarding champion Monaco is 14 focuses behind alliance pioneer Paris Saint-Germain with eight diversions left.
Monaco is seven focuses in front of third-put Marseille and 12 in front of fourth-put Lyon.
Top scorer Radaeml Falcao came back from thigh damage to lead the assault to the detriment of Jovetic,
who was dropped in spite of scoring five objectives in the four diversions Falcao missed.
Falcao has 17 class objectives yet the Colombia striker looked well off the pace and scarcely had an effect in the main half.
In any case, he had enough vitality to pursue into the stands the last shriek and hold up a Monaco shirt out of appreciation for Prince Albert,
who was viewing at Stade Louis II as he praised his 60th birthday celebration.
Lille led the pack against an uninvolved Monaco side in the sixteenth moment when South African striker Lebo Mothiba was given excessively space and handed over a cross from the right.
Assaulting midfielder Rony Lopes evened out with his tenth group objective just before halftime, beating Maignan at the second endeavour in the wake of being set up by Senegal forward Keita Balde.
Jovetic went ahead at halftime for Balde.
Lille stayed in nineteenth place and somewhere down stuck in an unfortunate situation. In Sunday's recreations, PSG is at Nice, and Marseille has Lyon.