The Gym is doing better, and is even starting to win matches that it could lose.

At the start of the afternoon against Lille (7th), who are ahead of them in the standings, the Niçois won after suffering throughout the first period.

Losc failed to score despite four face-to-face encounters with goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, all-powerful to save his goals, especially against Rémy Cabella (25th and 27th) and Timothy Weah (31st).

It was finally Gaëtan Laborde who allowed the OGCN to open the scoring after this storm (34th), served by the young Badredine Bouanani (18), born and trained in Lille, who had taken advantage of a pass completely missed by... Cabella, definitely not successful.

Nice has a third game without defeat (two wins) since the arrival on the bench of Didier Digard, but remains ninth (28 points), six points from the Mastiffs and nine from Rennes, which occupies the first European place in the classification.

Record defeats in a row for Angers

On the other hand, it is the maintenance that Montpellier, Brest, Angers, Auxerre and Strasbourg are aiming for, which all played during the 3:00 p.m. multiplex.

Montpellier managed to win (2-0), in a crucial meeting against AJA, a direct competitor.

Franck Honorat scores for Brest against Angers, January 29, 2023 at the Francis-Le-Blé stadium © JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP

A double from Stephy Mavididi, with a nice curled shot (61st) then against (79th), allowed the Montpellier residents to take a five-point lead over the red zone.

On the contrary, Strasbourg is again sunk there by losing at home against Toulouse (2-1).

Racing led thanks to Kevin Gameiro (19th) but folded in front of Thijs Dallinga (24th and 50th).

The end of the match was like the Strasbourg season: frustrating, to the point of seeing Gameiro receive a red card for kicking Stijn Spierings (90th + 3).

The situation is even more desperate in Angers, which has chained a twelfth consecutive defeat, this time in Brest (4-0), another club in difficulty, equaling the record jointly held by the Cercle athlétique Paris (1933-1934) and Dijon (2020 -2021).

The SCO, which sold its Moroccan midfielder Azzedine Ounahi to Olympique de Marseille this weekend, is last with only eight points, behind Auxerre (13 points), Ajaccio and Strasbourg (15), and Brest (18).

This Ligue 1 afternoon continues with Ajaccio-Lyon (5:00 p.m.) then PSG-Reims (8:45 p.m.).

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