{"id":19747,"date":"2025-09-20T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19747"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:01:06","slug":"cash-strapped-lyon-win-to-climb-level-on-top-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=19747","title":{"rendered":"Cash-strapped Lyon win to climb level on top in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Troubled former giants Lyon beat Angers 1-0 in Friday&#8217;s Ligue 1 opening game to climb level on points with Paris Saint Germain, who lead only on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Condemned to relegation due to debts two months ago before a reprieve on appeal, Lyon won their first three matches, lost to Rennes in the last round, but bounced back on Friday with a dominant but narrow win.<\/p>\n<p>Champions PSG remain top but have a tricky away game at Marseille on Sunday, while Lille on 10 points could surplant the European champions, if only briefly, with a victory awayt to Lens a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>American midfielder Tanner Tessmann broke the deadlock for Lyon on 65 minutes when a corner was poorly cleared, clipping the ball home from the six yard line.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon dominated the game and should have been further ahead before two late saves from their goalkeeper Dominik Greif secured the three points.<\/p>\n<p>Such a scenario seemed unlikely in late June when the seven-time French champions, riddled with huge debts, were demoted to Ligue 2 due to their financial situation despite having finished sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Rayan Cherki joined Manchester City for 36.5 million euros ($41m) and Brazilian goalkeeper Lucas Perri left for Leeds United, meaning that Slovak Greif took over between the sticks.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troubled former giants Lyon beat Angers 1-0 in Friday&#8217;s Ligue 1 opening game to climb level on points with Paris Saint Germain, who lead only on goal difference. Condemned to relegation due to debts two months ago before a reprieve on appeal, Lyon won their first three matches, lost to Rennes in the last round, [&hellip;]<\/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-19747","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\/19747","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=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}