Lyon wakes up thanks to Lacazette, Nice regains second place

The “General” shook the red lantern. With a hat-trick in a single match, Alexandre Lacazette doubled his number of goals and gave Olympique Lyonnais their second victory of the season, and their first at home (3-0 against Toulouse) in the 15^e day, Sunday December 10. Lyon returns to a length from the penultimate, Clermont, held in check by Lille (0-0), and three from maintaining, the 15^e place. Coach Pierre Sage collects his first victory after two lost matches since he replaced Fabio Grosso, dismissed after a defeat against LOSC (2-0).

Much higher in the ranking, OGC Nice returns to 2^e place, four lengths from Paris Saint-Germain, winner on Saturday of Nantes (2-1), and moves back in front of its Riviera rival Monaco, which had won in Rennes (2-1).

Always parsimonious in attack, Nice scored more than one goal for only the fourth time this season and ended up winning thanks to Gaëtan Laborde and Jérémie Boga, who took advantage of an error by goalkeeper Yehvann Diouf to restore the lead. The advantage to his team while the Reims captain, Yunis Abdelhamid, had just equalized.

Third success in a row for OM

In the three matches played at 3 p.m., the good operation for the Brestois was another Jérémy, Le Douaron, scorer in the last quarter of an hour. He had already scored the previous week against Strasbourg (1-1). The Finisterians are back in the race for Europe, two points behind Lille (4^e), braked at Clermont.

The Auvergnats remain penultimate in this race to maintain their position, where Strasbourg pulled off a sleight of hand by beating Le Havre (2-1) at the last second, with a header from its Ivorian defender Abakar Sylla. The Alsatians gain four places compared to the ranking of Sunday morning, are 10^are and overtake their opponent, Metz (12^e), Rennes (13^e) and Montpellier (14^e), held in check by Lens (0-0) on Friday.

At the end of this 15^e day, Olympique de Marseille won (4-2) in Lorient, thanks in particular to a double from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. With this third success in a row in the championship, OM has moved to 6^e place with 23 points, ahead of Lens and Reims on goal difference. For the Merlus, on the other hand, nothing changes, since they remain 16^are and virtual roadblocks, only one unit from Toulouse, 15^e.