Paris SG missed the chance to get ahead at the top of Ligue 1 when they were held to the wire by Reims (1-1) on Sunday in Matchday 20, while Lyon came back against Ajaccio (2-0) unlike Angers and Strasbourg, which are sinking into the relegation zone. After conceding its first two defeats in the league in the last three meetings, the capital club this time conceded a draw in the dying moments at home, overtaken by English striker Folarin Bolagun (90th 6).
Before that, Olympique Lyonnais played a paradoxical match in Ajaccio. Dominated in the game and in the number of clear chances, the Lyonnais won by a comfortable gap (2-0), ending a series of three games without victories. It was the Lyon team that put the club on the right track: well offset by Maxence Caqueret (22 years old), Bradley Barcola (20 years old) served the young midfielder Johann Lepenant (20 years old), who concluded with application ( 20th). Captain Alexandre Lacazette then doubled the lead by taking over an ideal cross from Nicolas Tagliafico (71st).
The meeting ended in confusion, when a scuffle broke out, first involving Ajaccio coach Olivier Pantaloni and Lyon goalkeeper coach Rémy Vercoutre, then the two staffs and even the Corsican supporters.
Nice has a third game without defeat (two wins) since the arrival on the bench of Didier Digard, but is tenth (28 points), six points from the Mastiffs and nine from Rennes.
In contrast, it is the maintenance that Montpellier, Brest, Angers, Auxerre and Strasbourg are aiming for, who all played during the 3 p.m. multiplex. Montpellier managed to win (2-0), in a crucial meeting against AJA, a direct competitor. A double from Stephy Mavididi, with a beautiful curled shot (61st) then against (79th), allowed the Montpellier residents to take a five-point lead over the red zone.
On the contrary, Strasbourg is again sunk there by losing at home against Toulouse (2-1). Racing led thanks to Kevin Gameiro (19th) but folded in front of Thijs Dallinga (24th and 50th). The end of the match was like the Strasbourg season: frustrating, to the point of seeing Gameiro receive a red card for kicking Stijn Spierings (90th 3).
The situation is even more desperate in Angers, which has chained a twelfth consecutive defeat, this time in Brest (4-0), another club in difficulty, equaling the record jointly held by the Cercle athlétique Paris (1933-1934) and Dijon (2020 -2021). The SCO, which sold its Moroccan midfielder Azzedine Ounahi to Olympique de Marseille this weekend, is last with only eight points, behind Auxerre (13 points), Ajaccio and Strasbourg (15), and Brest (18).
