Lyon go four points clear, Caen get first win since October

Buy fifa 15 coins online Ligue 1 pacesetters Lyon connected their accomplished run and opened up a gap at the top of the table afterwards assault Lens.

Lyon went four credibility bright at the top of the Ligue 1 table on Saturday acknowledgment to a adequate 2-0 win at disturbing Lens.

Hubert Fournier’s ancillary owe abundant to the anatomy of the league’s arch goalscorer, Alexandre Lacazette, and the France all-embracing begin the net afresh in Amiens, his 23rd ambition of the division in all competitions.

Lyon appropriate a achievement of luck to breach the deadlock, though, as Lens apostle Jean-Philippe Gbamin angry a Nabil Fekir cantankerous accomplished his own goalkeeper with 21 account gone.

The additional accustomed just 5 account later, Lacazette converting a amends afterwards Boubacar Sylla had handled the brawl in the area.

With that ambition the Lyon advanced became the aboriginal amateur back Carlos Bianchi in 1978 to account 20 goals in 21 Ligue 1 matches.

With victory, Lyon confused on to 45 points, four bright of Marseille, who – like adolescent appellation hopefuls Paris Saint-Germain and Saint-Etienne – are in activity on Sunday.

At the added end of the table, basal Caen confused to aural a point of Lens afterwards accepting their aboriginal alliance win back October, with Reims on the end of a absolute 4-1 defeat.

Monaco bankrupt in on the top four with a 1-0 win over Nantes acknowledgment to Bernardo Silva’s 73rd-minute strike, while Montpellier leapt up to sixth afterwards assault hosts Metz 3-2, with Lucas Barrios claiming a hat-trick in the process.