The Lyonnais beat Bordeaux 6-1 on Sunday. A one-sided meeting that allows them to always eye the European places in the Ligue 1 classification.
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Toko Ekambi makes no gift to Bordeaux goalkeeper Gaetan Poussin.
Lyon resumed its march forward by beating Bordeaux (6-1) to continue to believe in European places, also targeted by Nice, saved by its striker Andy Delort once morest Lorient (2-1) Sunday in Ligue 1, before Paris SG- Marseilles.
The French Championship has its eyes riveted on its classic, at the Parc des Princes at 8:45 p.m., between the Parisian leader and its Marseille runner-up, already separated by twelve points before the end of the 32nd day.
Good reaction from Nice
Before the summit of the weekend, the day of Sunday has already smiled on another candidate for qualification in the Champions League, Nice, which tore away to dominate Lorient, 16th.
Already a scorer from the penalty spot, Delort freed his team in the 88th minute with a header, saving the Niçois a fifth game in a row without a win and allowing them to believe in the podium once more.
Rennes, 3rd and beaten by Monaco 3-2 on Friday, only has a two-point lead over the people of Nice, and three over the Monegasques.
Monaco (6th) and Nice (4th) also have an appointment on Wednesday for a Riviera derby with a taste of Europe at Louis-II, while only the first three places in the ranking offer a ticket for the Champions League or its qualifying phases.
In the race for the C1, Strasbourg (5th) lost two points to Troyes, joined at the end of the game (1-1). The clash between the Alsatians and Rennes on Wednesday will also be very expensive.
Lyon redeems itself
A small gap seems to be forming between the top 6 and the rest of the ranking, especially since Lens’ victory in the derby du Nord in Lille (2-1) on Saturday, which put the Sang et Or ahead of their Lille rivals, but everything likewise three lengths from Strasbourg and Monaco.
Among those left behind, Lyon, 8th, still dreams of qualifying for a European Cup… After the pitiful elimination in the Europa League ahead of West Ham (3-0), OL set the record straight once morest Girondins brutally sent back to their fight to maintain (19th).
Lucas Paqueta, Moussa Dembélé, Karl Toko Ekambi and Romain Faivre scored to put OL back between Lens and Lille in the standings.
Four draws
The second part of the table is still undecided: with the exception of Lorient and Bordeaux, all the bottom teams playing on Sunday have drawn.
The most disappointed will undoubtedly be the Clermontois (18th), who evolved in numerical superiority for almost an hour once morest the red lantern Messina. But the Auvergnats have failed to push the Moselle (1-1), they retain their five-point lead over them.
Montpellier and Reims, not threatened by the red zone, parted back to back (0-0), like Nantes and Angers (1-1).