{"id":41417,"date":"2026-02-23T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41417"},"modified":"2026-02-23T06:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:04:26","slug":"strasbourg-snap-lyon-winning-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41417","title":{"rendered":"Strasbourg snap Lyon winning run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Strasbourg beat Lyon 3-1 to end the visitors&#8217; seven-match winning streak in Ligue 1 on Sunday, a result that dampens their outside shot at the title.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon had won 13 consecutive games in all competitions but failed to equal the club record set in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Paulo Fonseca&#8217;s side remain third on 45 points and nine back of league leaders and European champions Paris Saint-Germain. Lens are two points off the pace.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon had early chances to take the lead but home side Strasbourg struck first when Martial Godo fired in his seventh goal of the season late in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>They doubled that lead on 52 minutes with a long-range strike from Diego Moreira that took a wicked deflection.<\/p>\n<p>Corentin Tolisso pulled one back for Lyon on the hour, but Strasbourg put the match to bed with Joaquin Panichelli&#8217;s penalty seven minutes from time &#8212; the Argentine forward&#8217;s 13th league goal this term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a shame. We knew we had a huge opportunity tonight if we won. But we can&#8217;t afford to play like that if we want to win games, especially here,&#8221; Tolisso told broadcaster Ligue 1+.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran striker Olivier Giroud&#8217;s penalty gave Lille a 1-0 win at Angers which put them fifth and snapped a six-match winless streak in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old former Arsenal and Chelsea forward fired a spot-kick into the bottom corner before the break to score his fifth league goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>A first win of 2026 sent Lille to within three points of Marseille and eight behind Lyon in the third and final direct Champions League qualifying spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Above all it&#8217;s three points but that will do us all a lot of good mentally,&#8221; Lille captain Benjamin Andre said.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow European hopefuls Rennes followed their 3-1 defeat of leaders Paris Saint-Germain last week with a 3-0 victory at Auxerre to stay level on points with Lille.<\/p>\n<p>Nantes eased their relegation fears with a 2-0 home win over Le Havre, and Nice drew 3-3 with Lorient.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strasbourg beat Lyon 3-1 to end the visitors&#8217; seven-match winning streak in Ligue 1 on Sunday, a result that dampens their outside shot at the title. Lyon had won 13 consecutive games in all competitions but failed to equal the club record set in 2006. Paulo Fonseca&#8217;s side remain third on 45 points and nine [&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-41417","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\/41417","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=41417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}