{"id":17975,"date":"2025-09-01T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17975"},"modified":"2025-09-01T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:04:04","slug":"debt-ridden-lyon-beat-marseille-to-share-summit-with-psg-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17975","title":{"rendered":"Debt-ridden Lyon beat Marseille to share summit with PSG in France"},"content":{"rendered":"
A late own goal gifted Lyon a 1-0 win over 10-man Marseille on Sunday lifting them level on points with Paris Saint-Germain in the French top flight.<\/p>\n

Condemned to relegation due to debts two months ago before a reprieve on appeal, Lyon have now won all three of their league games, with only PSG ahead of them on goal difference.<\/p>\n

Troubled Marseille, second last year, now have just three points and a recent dressing room fight led to the transfer listing of French international Adrien Rabiot and the sale of Jonathan Rowe.<\/p>\n

On Sunday Roberto De Zerbi’s Marseille had English defender CJ Egan-Riley sent off for a bad tackle on 29 minutes.<\/p>\n

And to add to the sense of inner discord they lost the match due to an own goal from Argentine defender Leonardo Balerdi on 88 minutes.<\/p>\n

PSG and Lyon both have nine points with Lille in third on seven after a 7-1 win at Toulouse on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere Sunday Strasbourg rallied from a 2-0 deficit at Monaco to no avail as Takumi Minamino scored a late winner for the hosts in a 3-2 battle on the south coast.<\/p>\n

Monaco are now fourth on six points.<\/p>\n

Their coach Adi Hutter said his team had sent out the wrong signal despite the win<\/p>\n

“We should have won 4-0, we should have killed it. We deserved the win but we made it difficult for ourselves,” said the Austrian.<\/p>\n

Ligue 1 newcomers Paris FC had lost their two openers but came good against fellow promoted side Metz.<\/p>\n

Algerian forward Ilan Kebbal scored twice as Paris FC fought back to beat Metz 3-2 in their first Ligue 1 home match at a lively Jean-Bouin stadium.<\/p>\n

Backed by the LVMH-owning Arnault family Paris FC picked up their first points after two defeats and Kebbal said the win would kick start their season.<\/p>\n

“This takes off the pressure and we can play our game freely now, try more stuff,” said the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n

North coast outfit Le Havre also got their first points beating an injury depleted Nice 3-1 after the visiting ‘keeper Yehvan Diouf risked going upfield for a corner at 2-1 down.<\/p>\n

Clearing the corner Le Havre went on a rapid break and Diouf had to watch in dismay as Issa Soumar\u00e9 ran full pelt and scored into the open goal to make it 3-1 in the fifth minute of extra time and ensure their win.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A late own goal gifted Lyon a 1-0 win over 10-man Marseille on Sunday lifting them level on points with Paris Saint-Germain in the French top flight. Condemned to relegation due to debts two months ago before a reprieve on appeal, Lyon have now won all three of their league games, with only PSG ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}