Décines-Charpieu (France) (AFP)

Lyon will spend the holidays at the top of Ligue 1 after its offensive festival against Nantes, beaten 3 to 0 Wednesday at Décines, which allows it to take away its leadership costume in Lille.

Olympique Lyonnais, after a hesitant start to the championship, finally ahead of Losc on goal difference +20 against +19 for 36 points each.

A first place that he owes to his consistency in recent weeks: Lyon has not lost any of its last fourteen meetings and has even only one defeat this season (in Montpellier, 2-1).

For its part, Nantes, on a series of eight matches without success, descends from 15th to 16th place after its eighth defeat of the season (6 draws, 3 victories) and is only three points ahead of the barrage. , Lorient (18th).

Future coach of the Canaries, the former national coach and coach of Lyon (1988-1993), Raymond Domenech (68) has before him a huge project to restore confidence to a soulless team, totally adrift and redress the bar especially in terms of defense.

This was stricken by the attack of OL, the 2nd in Ligue 1 (34 goals) behind that of PSG (39 goals).

But Lyon, with more realism, should have won much more widely without the clumsiness of Memphis or the performance of goalkeeper Alban Lafont.

It depends.

Karl Toko-Ekambi opened the scoring entry after an action led by Houssem Aouar (4) who also initiated the one that led to the first goal with Lyon from Brazilian Lucas Paqueta, ultimately served by Tino Kadewere (43).

The latter had previously brought the score to 2-0 by resuming a shot from Paqueta repelled by Lafont (38).

In the second half, the latter, who had also deflected an attempt by Memphis Depay early in the game (7), clearly avoided a severe rout to his team with several decisive interventions in front of Memphis again (50, 54), then Aouar (52 ) and Kadewere (70).

He also deflected a long shot from Thiago Mendes (81) before Memphis, who finally missed everything, served by Aouar, still misses a very good opportunity (85) and still fails against Lafont (90 + 2) .

For their part, the Nantes, of a rare weakness, had only one opportunity to score, by the defender Jean-Charles Castelletto, with two consecutive heads, stopped by Anthony Lopes (63) who was replaced by Jason Denayer on the line facing Kalifa Coulibaly (90 + 2).

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