
Edinson Cavani punished Nantes for missing clear chances by scoring both goals as Paris Saint-Germain won 2-0 away from home to move one point behind leader Nice. Cavani is thriving now that he is out of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's shadow and has 20 league goals in 19 games this season - the most he has scored since joining PSG from Napoli for more than 60 million euros ($64 million) in the summer of 2013. Ibrahimovic usually grabbed the headlines for PSG in recent years, but when he left to join Manchester United in the offseason this freed Cavani to play in his favored center forward's role, rather than doubling up as a winger to suit Ibrahimovic.
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