{"id":1752,"date":"2025-11-03T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:14:25","slug":"lens-back-up-to-third-in-ligue-1-as-lyon-held-at-brest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/lens-back-up-to-third-in-ligue-1-as-lyon-held-at-brest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lens back up to third in Ligue 1 as Lyon held at Brest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Lens shrugged off a midweek loss to beat Lorient 3-0 on Sunday and stay within two points of Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain, while Lyon lost ground after drawing away to Brest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Celtic and Crystal Palace striker&nbsp;<strong>Odsonne Edouard struck early<\/strong>&nbsp;for Lens before Wesley&nbsp;<strong>Said&nbsp;<\/strong>and Samson&nbsp;<strong>Baidoo scored late on<\/strong>&nbsp;for the hosts after Lorient forward Mohamed Bamba missed a penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/team\/lens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lens<\/a>&nbsp;had&nbsp;<strong>missed the chance to supplant PSG at the top<\/strong>&nbsp;on Wednesday after a 2-0 defeat by previously winless Metz. Felix Correia netted his third goal in as many games to earn Lille a 1-0 win over Angers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lille are among a trio of teams four points back of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/team\/paris-saint-germain-fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PSG<\/a>, along with Lyon, who<strong>&nbsp;held on for a 0-0 draw at Brest<\/strong>&nbsp;despite having Hans Hateboer sent off with just seven minutes gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteban Lepaul continued his fine run of form with a<strong>&nbsp;hat-trick to fire Rennes to a 4-1 win<\/strong>&nbsp;over Strasbourg. Lepaul is the league&#8217;s second leading scorer with eight goals, just one behind Strasbourg&#8217;s Argentine striker Joaquin Panichelli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metz strung together successive victories to climb off the foot of the table,&nbsp;<strong>winning 2-0 at Nantes<\/strong>. Toulouse and Le Havre drew 0-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lens shrugged off a midweek loss to beat Lorient 3-0 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}