{"id":938114,"date":"2026-10-18T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938114\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:36:10","slug":"european-football-10-man-lyon-hold-off-nice-to-move-top-of-ligue-1-european-club-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938114\/","title":{"rendered":"European football: 10-man Lyon hold off Nice to move top of Ligue 1 | European club football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten-man Lyon held on for a 2-1 comeback victory over Nice to move top of Ligue 1 on Sunday, as previous pacesetters Monaco lost for the first time this season. Five teams are level on 14 points at the top of the table with Lyon heading Paris Saint-Germain, Paris FC<\/a>, Lille and Monaco on goal difference.<\/p>\n

It was a close run affair for Lyon<\/a>, playing in front of local boy and French cycling prodigy Paul Seixas, following Keito Nakamura\u2019s dismissal 20 minutes from time.<\/p>\n

C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire forward Elye Wahi, who opened the scoring for Nice<\/a> on 18 minutes with his second goal of the season, was denied a stoppage-time equaliser by a tight offside call.<\/p>\n

Two goals in three minutes turned the game around by half-time as Pavel Sulc equalised by prodding home a rebound and Tanner Tessmann headed the hosts in front.<\/p>\n

Veteran Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel headed against the bar early in the second half while Wahi hit the post with a close-range header, shortly after Nakamura was dismissed for a high boot.<\/p>\n

Noah Cadiou\u2019s second-half penalty for Lorient prevented Monaco returning to the top of Ligue 1 as they fell to a 1-0 defeat in Brittany on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Finnish goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky dived the right way, but Cadiou placed his spot-kick into the corner, to hand Monaco<\/a> their first league defeat of the season.<\/p>\n

Monaco are one of five teams level on points at the top of the table as they were joined by Paris FC, who edged Rennes 4-3 thanks to Lassine Sinayoko\u2019s injury-time penalty. Rennes<\/a> dropped to fifth, a point behind, despite forward Est\u00e9ban Lepaul\u2019s hat-trick of penalties in Paris.<\/p>\n

Marseille picked up a much-needed win as they thumped Angers 5-2 to pull away from the relegation zone. Le Havre remain rooted to the foot of the table as Cameroon forward Danny Namaso\u2019s double helped Auxerre come away from Normandy with a 3-1 victory.<\/p>\n

Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 blasts home Real Madrid\u2019s third goal. Photograph: \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 scored \u2060twice as Real Madrid closed the gap on \u2060La Liga leaders \u2060Barcelona \u200bto six points with a 4-1 home win over \u2060Sevilla on Sunday, a week \u2060before the rivals meet in el cl\u00e1sico.<\/p>\n

Arda Guler \u200bopened the \u200cscoring in the \u200c30th minute, arrowing a shot \u200cinto the top corner from outside the box, before Mbapp\u00e9 added a second seven minutes later after a brilliant turn. Mbapp\u00e9 \u200cthen won and converted a penalty in the 63rd minute \u200bto effectively settle the contest.<\/p>\n

Sevilla pulled one back with 10 minutes remaining through the substitute Manu Bueno, \u2060but Yan Diomand\u00e9 restored Real\u2019s three-goal \u200blead \u200bwith a thunderous \u200bstrike two minutes later.<\/p>\n

An early penalty from Ante Budimir and a late Asier Osambela goal from earned Osasuna a 2-0 win against Racing Santander while Celta Vigo won 2-1 at home against Alav\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Ibrahim Maza and Patrik Schick combined to score two goals as Bayer Leverkusen came from behind to beat in-form Freiburg 2-1 in the Bundesliga on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After a shock defeat to promoted Elversberg in the season opener, Leverkusen have now picked up 13 of a possible 18 points and sit fourth, level with third-placed Freiburg<\/a> \u2013 who host Bayern Munich next weekend \u2013 on points.<\/p>\n

Rock bottom Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach are still searching for a first point of the season after losing 2-1 at home against fellow strugglers Hoffenheim.<\/p>\n

Hoffenheim\u2019s Bambas\u00e9 Cont\u00e9 opened the scoring with his second goal in two games since a surprise call-up to the Germany squad in October. Wael Mohya levelled for the hosts just after the break, but Alexander Prass put Hoffenheim back in front shortly afterwards as the visitors, who host Lyon in the Europa League on Thursday, won just their second game of the season.<\/p>\n

Patrik Schick scores Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s winner. Photograph: Martin Meissner\/AP<\/p>\n

Lazio\u2019s Danish duo made the difference in Turin as Oliver Provstgaard and Gustav Isaksen \u2060scored in a 3-0 \u2060win over \u200bJuventus on Sunday that lifted their side level with Inter at the top of Serie A.<\/p>\n

Provstgaard broke the deadlock in the \u206037th minute, using his height to glance home Mattia Zaccagni\u2019s cross after Lazio<\/a> worked a short corner on the left.<\/p>\n

Fellow Dane Isaksen doubled the lead in \u2060the 66th minute, collecting a pass from Nuno Tavares on the right before shifting the ball onto \u200bhis left foot and bending a low \u200cfinish into the far \u200ccorner.<\/p>\n

Fisayo Dele-Bashiru completed the scoring in the 89th minute, launching a counterattack from inside his own \u200chalf and driving into the box before slotting home a low finish as frustrated home supporters jeered their side through to the final whistle.<\/p>\n

Cesc F\u00e0bregas\u2019s Como ended their three-game winless streak in Serie A on Sunday with a 3-1 victory at lowly Fiorentina.<\/p>\n

First-half goals by Mattia Liberali and Nico Paz put the visitors in charge, before Marin Pongracic halved the deficit shortly before the interval. Anastasios Douvikas netted early in the second period to put to bed any hope of a Fiorentina comeback and keep the hosts locked in the relegation zone on four points.<\/p>\n

Milan leapfrogged Como into fourth as they survived a second-half comeback from Atalanta to win 3-2. Goals from Gon\u00e7alo Ramos, Adrien Rabiot and Mario Gila put Milan 3-0 ahead after 58 minutes before Atalanta<\/a> rallied through Gianluca Gaetano and Nikola Krstovic.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Lecce won 3-0 at Udinese, with Kialonda Gaspar, Konan N\u2019Dri and Jamil Siebert all finding the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten-man Lyon held on for a 2-1 comeback victory over Nice to move top of Ligue 1 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-938114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}