Lyon in the goals again as Lille, Nice also win

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Lyon in the goals again as Lille, Nice also win

After 10 goals in three games, new coach Paulo Fonseca’s pledge to bring attacking soccer back to Lyon is holding firm.

Sunday’s 4-1 win at Montpellier in Ligue 1 saw four different Lyon players on target for the second straight game.

Under previous coach Pierre Sage, the team was looking laborious and had scored only five goals in six games without a win before he was fired.

Veteran striker Alexandre Lacazette completed the rout for Lyon, who stayed in sixth place because Lille won 2-0 at Rennes in the late game to retain fifth spot.

After poking in Lille’s opening goal from close range following a corner, Nabil Bentaleb sprinted to the bench and was hugged by everyone there.

With good reason.

The Algeria midfielder only started training again last month after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest in mid-June last year. He was put into an artificial coma and fitted with a pacemaker-defibrillator days later.

The former Tottenham and Schalke midfielder’s goal also prompted a big smile from Lille coach Bruno Genesio and Chuba Akpom was played in by Mitchel Bakker six minutes later against 13th-placed Rennes.

“It’s incredible. These images will remain engraved for life,” Bentaleb told match broadcaster DAZN.

“There are things that are not forgotten and that I will not forget when I stop playing football.”

The race for third place promises to be intense, with Nice reclaiming it from Riviera rivals Monaco on goal difference after winning 3-1 at lowly Le Havre.

Both Nice and Monaco have 40 points and trail second-placed Marseille by six points, with runaway leaders PSG a further 10 points ahead.

In other results, Strasbourg won 2-0 at Lens to leapfrog the northern side — also on goal difference — and move into seventh place, and Angers won 1-0 at Reims.

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