Lens and Marseille as boss, Lyon in perdition
Le RC Lens scraped a small victory on Saturday against Auxerre (1-0) enough to cancel its second place at the midpoint of the Ligue 1 season, ahead of a team of Marseilles stunning and exciting against Lorient (3-1). On the contrary, nothing goes to Lyonsbeaten 2-1 at the end of the evening by the poorly ranked Strasbourg in a heavy atmosphere, in front of sometimes hostile supporters under the eyes of the new owner John Textor, present for the first time at the Groupama stadium.
Earlier, Lens pocketed a 10th victory in a row in its citadel of Bollaert-Delelis, an unprecedented series at home which makes us forget the relatively neutral performance of its occupants. “We like to win by being flamboyant, but I’m not going to get angry because we didn’t have the match of the century! We won and we have 44 points at the end of the first leg”, simply “exceptional”, rejoiced coach Franck Haise.
Slowed down on Wednesday by Strasbourg (2-2), the artesian club regains its momentum and is only three points behind the Paris SG, before the leader moved to the fourth, Rennes, Sunday (8:45 p.m.) at the end of the 19th day.
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The Sang et Or, hesitant before the break, improved in the second half with a generous penalty converted by Przemyslaw Frankowski (59th), then a severe expulsion from the Auxerre side (65th, Isaak Touré) to maintain their advantage intact.
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