Bordeaux (AFP)

Awkward and led in the first period, Lyon knew how to adjust the shot in Bordeaux (2-1) to regain height in Ligue 1 on Saturday for the 20th day, returning to a provisional top 5 more in line with its status, four points from the podium .

Despite all its annoyances, OL appear to be back. The appetizers from Bresse (7-0) and Brest (3-1) in the National Cups to start the year had reassured and restored confidence in a group permanently deprived of its star attacker Memphis Depay, injured for several months.

It remained to get out of the soft stomach of the classification: it is done thanks to the goals of Maxwel Cornet (50th) and Moussa Dembélé (53th) at the Matmut Atlantique stadium, where the Girondins of Paulo Sousa were rolled and did not have to narrowness of the score than Lyon's failures in the finish.

With 11 shots for OL at the break against 2 against their host, it was a real miracle to see leading Girondins of a worrying technical weakness, unable to line up three assists and whose solidarity was the only virtue.

How? 'Or' What ? Thanks to yet another error from the Lyon rear guard, this time signed by Joachim Andersen. His too soft back pass to his goalkeeper Anthony Lopes did not escape the flair of the experienced and Jimmy Briand, quicker to get ahead of his former partner (1-0, 15th).

- Aulas' relief phew -

Despite this stroke of fate, the Gones continued in the same mode, showing the same determination but not the same success like Maxwel Cornet yet ideally placed (14th, 41st) or Maxence Caqueret (22nd, 29th).

Bordeaux, forced under pressure to abandon its precepts and evolve most clearly of the time in 4-4-2, has not ceased to suffer, the young Aurélien Tchouaméni paying for all his comrades by leaving before the break.

His replacement, the rookie Rémi Oudin, could have celebrated his premiere in the most beautiful way without a vigilant Lopes (48th).

Too bad for the players with the scapular who, after having long resisted, often scooped in catastrophe, ended up drinking the cup in three minutes with Cornet with the stick.

Placed on his left side, the Ivorian a little too alone first tried his luck from the right which hit the target after being deflected by a foot from Youssouf Sabaly (50).

In an almost similar position for three minutes, this time he served Moussa Dembélé who adjusted Benoît Costil (1-2) and probably won over the many observers from English clubs interested in his profile.

On his streak, the former Celtic could have put his own away from a flick on the transverse (75th), like his captain Houssem Aouar who saw his slowed down by Costil and saved by Pablo.

This could have avoided some cold sweats to President Jean-Michel Aulas who pushed a real sigh of relief when seeing the equalization of Laurent Koscielny (85th) invalidated for offside by video arbitration.

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