Décines-Charpieu (France) (AFP)

Lyon, with a goal from Léo Dubois in added time, temporarily regained the lead of Ligue 1 by winning very difficult 2 to 1 at home at the expense of Bordeaux who could just as easily have won on Friday in opening of the 22nd day.

The Lyonnais, who have a second consecutive success after their victory in the derby at Saint-Etienne (5-0), are one point ahead of Paris Saint-Germain and Lille who will play on Sunday, while the Bordelais, who came from win three times in a row, remain 7th.

In the last moments of a match that he did not master, OL, which seemed to be heading towards a draw that Bordeaux would have deserved, Dubois, already author of two assists against the Stéphanois, deceived, despite a closed angle the Girondin goalkeeper Benoît Costil with a powerful shot that hit the post before entering the cage after a cross from the left wing of Maxwel Cornet (90 + 2).

It was Karl Toko Ekambi who put Lyon on the right track in the first period by scoring his tenth goal of the season.

Well placed in ambush, he took over a center delivered from the left wing by Memphis Depay after a corner and inadvertently diverted by Laurent Koscielny in the feet of the Cameroonian (32).

Until then the Bordelais had mastered the game rather well but without being dangerous for the Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes (no shot on target).

And on the Lyon side, only Bruno Guimaraes had managed to call on Bordeaux goalkeeper Benoît Costil (17) for one of OL's two attempts on target in this poor first period.

- Lopes decisive against Oudin -

But after half-time, the Girondins displayed a little more ambition, managed to play higher to jostle the struggling Lyonnais and for whom the entries into play by Lucas Paqueta (62) and Houssem Aouar (72), substitutes at kick-off, did not bring the expected bonus.

Bordeaux logically equalized on his first shot on target by Samuel Kalu who took over, for his third goal of the season, a center from Rémi Oudin at the conclusion of an action on which Thiago Mendes and Léo Dubois were overwhelmed (55).

Subsequently, the Bordelais kept control of the match but their offensives were not used well enough.

Oudin in particular came up against goalkeeper Anthony Lopes, decisive for his only intervention of the match (79).

A shot from Kalu also came close (86).

Conversely, OL struggled to get into a good position, except for a recovery over Islam Slimani, the last recruit of the Rhone club, upon receipt of a center delivered from the left wing by Cornet whose entry was decisive (77).

Then a free kick from Paqueta was repelled by Costil (86), before Dubois released his team.

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