Angers SCO 0 - 3 Lyonnais: Lyon punish 10-man Angers

Posted Sunday, February 07, 2016 by PA

Lyon improved their chances of qualifying for Europe with a 3-0 win at ten-man Angers.

Goals from Christophe Jallet, Rachid Ghezzal and Corentin Tolisso helped see off a resolute Angers side who had to play almost 75 minutes with 10 men after Thomas Mangani was dismissed.

The writing was on the wall early on for Angers as they found themselves a goal behind and a man down inside the opening 16 minutes.

Firstly, Ismael Traore's error gifted possession to Christophe Jallet and the former PSG right-back curled a superb effort beyond Alexandre Letellier from outside the area.

Then, just a few minutes later, Mangani was given a straight red card following a nasty-looking challenge on Lyon midfielder Tolisso.

And Lyon doubled their advantage just a few minutes after the restart, in similar fashion to the opener.

Jallet was involved once again and his pass found Ghezzal, who jinked his way into the right side of the area before firing a sublime left-footed effort beyond the helpess Letellier.

Chances were few and far between for the hosts and when they did manage to muster an effort at goal, Cheikh N'Doye's header from Jeremy Morel's delivery ended up the wrong side of the post.

Then, with less than 10 minutes to play, Lyon added a third after some good work on the left from Mathieu Valbuena resulted in Tolisso converting from the edge of the area.