Paris (AFP)
Lyon ignited the struggle for runner-up, with Paris Saint-Germain flying in the lead, by defeating its second guest, Lens, 2-1 in the twelfth stage of the French Football League.
Although the season is still in its infancy, Saint-Germain is 10 points clear of Lens, after beating defending champion Lille 2-1 and the loss of coach Frank Hayes’s team against Lyon with a goal scored by Arnaud Kalimundo, compared to two goals by Cameroonian Karl Toko Ekambi and Houssem Aouar, With his third defeat of the season, Lens’s balance froze at 21 points.
On the other hand, Lyon, who compensated for his loss in the last stage against Nice 2-3 and achieved his fifth victory of the season, raised his score to 19 points.
Tunisian international Wahbi Khazri scored a goal from a distance of 68 meters, which gave his team Saint-Etienne a 1-1 draw with its host Metz in the “Meeting Al-Jarihin”.
Metz opened the scoring from the ninth minute with a long free kick by Algerian Farid Wilaya, but the hosts’ progress did not last long because Khazri responded with a wonderful goal in the 16th minute.
The Tunisian received the ball in his team’s penalty area, then presented it before shooting it into the net from a distance of 68 meters, according to “Opta” for statistics, taking advantage of the progress of Algerian goalkeeper Alexandre Okidha from his own goal, to raise his score to four goals in the last four games and seven this season.
Al-Kharazi revealed to “Amazon Prime Video”, which broadcasts the league, that “I tried this several times, and they sometimes made fun of me, but when the ball enters it is beautiful, the most important thing is that it is in the interest of the team, which is at the bottom of the arrangement without any A win so far and six points from six draws, including three in its last four matches, while Metz has seven points with a win and four draws.
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