Angel Di Maria scored a hat-trick as holders
Paris Saint-Germain defeated second-tier Sochaux 4-1 on Tuesday to reach
the French Cup quarter-finals, while Marseille demolished Ligue 2
outfit Bourg-en-Bresse 9-0.
Di Maria headed PSG, who were playing without the rested
Neymar, ahead inside the first minute at the Stade Bonal in eastern
France, but twice former winners Sochaux levelled through Florian Martin
before the quarter hour.
Edinson Cavani restored the lead for
Unai Emery's team on 27 minutes when he turned in a Layvin Kurzawa cross
at the far post, and Thiago Silva then rattled the crossbar with a
header from a corner.
Di Maria added a third just prior to the
hour with a composed finish after he was released in behind the home
defence by a pass from Italian midfielder Marco Verratti.
He
completed his hat-trick just three minutes later by forcing home a
rebound from close range after Sochaux goalkeeper Lawrence Ati Zigi
parried a fierce shot from Cavani.
Dani Alves finished the game in
goal for PSG after Kevin Trapp was sent off in the closing stages for a
foul outside his area on Sochaux striker Thomas Robinet.
Earlier, both Kostas Mitroglou and Lucas Ocampos scored hat-tricks as in-form Marseille crushed a hapless Bourg-en-Bresse 9-0 in a heavily lopsided last-16 tie.
Rudi
Garcia's side, who are second in Ligue 1 after thrashing Metz 6-3 last
week, romped into a 4-0 lead inside 20 minutes at the struggling Ligue 2
side and showed no mercy against hapless opponents.
Despite
making six changes to the starting XI, Marseille ended the tie as a
contest with early goals from Luiz Gustavo, Dimitri Payet, Ocampos and
Mitroglou.
Greek international striker Mitroglou has struggled to
nail down a place in the team since joining from Benfica last year, but
he strolled through the vacant home defence to score the fifth before
half-time.
Argentinian Ocampos grabbed his second early in the
second half, although he was made to wait to complete his treble as
Marseille went a game-high 23 minutes without scoring before he headed
home.
Mitroglou quickly got back in on the act as some more awful
defending allowed him to nod in his seventh goal for the club, before
Clinton N'Jie wrapped up the scoring with number nine from the penalty
spot.
Marseille have now won eight and drawn one of their last
nine matches in all competitions, scoring 30 goals in the process. But
they fell well short of their record win - a 19-0 French Cup victory
over Stade Raphaelois in 1933.
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