But Olympique Lyonnais, temporarily 3rd on goal difference ahead of Lens (4th) can still not learn much from this victory.

The Lyonnais, after a very average first half hour, took advantage of the relative opposition of an almost harmless opponent, too limited in all areas.

In terms of accounts, OL can still congratulate themselves on having won four of their first five matches, each time they played at home, against a draw in Reims where their performance was very disappointing (1-1 ).

In total, Olympique Lyonnais have thirteen points out of fifteen before going to Lorient on Wednesday to play a late match of the second day that they could not play due to a ground made impassable by the drought and the held three days before the Inter-Celtic Festival.

Then, it will finally be possible to judge the true potential of this OL 2022-2023, in Monaco, on September 11, and against Paris Saint-Germain, a week later.

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After a very insufficient first half hour in terms of intensity, Lyon broke free after opening the scoring by Karl Toko Ekambi who took advantage of an error by Abdoulaye Bamba to deceive Paul Bernardoni with a cross shot (32 ).

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On the action, the Angevin goalkeeper did not know how to be decisive and delivered a catastrophic performance.

He then lost on a resumption of the head of Alexandre Lacazette, six minutes later, on the reception of a center delivered from the right wing by Malo Gusto (38).

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The latter, on a new cross from the right, then allowed Toko Ekambi to achieve the double to bring the score to 3-0 and score his third goal this season (59) before Castello Lukeba, from the head, took advantage of Bernardoni's failed exit from a corner played by Romain Faivre, to score a fourth goal (4-0, 62).

With this lead, coach Peter Bosz took the opportunity to rotate his squad.

Players lacking game time entered like Henrique, Damien Da Silva, Jeff Reine-Adelaïde, Bradley Barcola or Moussa Dembélé who brought the score to 5-0 after a fifty-meter race to beat Bernardoni (88 ).

For their part, the Angevins, 19th with two points (2 draws, 4 defeats) can only be worried about the future.

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And coach Gérald Baticle already seems under threat of dismissal but his workforce seems really limited to evolve in Elite even if they could have scored.

Goalkeeper Anthony Lopes, back in the Lyon eleven after a three-match suspension, thus intervened well in front of Loïs Diony (13) and a shot from Yan Valéry (45).

But that's all for the SCO.

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