Alexandre Lacazette noted a brace with his 200th Lyon goal, because Les Gones 2024/25 ended with a 2-0 win over Angers. And thanks to a late turn in Strasbourg, she crept to sixth place at death and will play in the UEFA Conference League next season.
Lyon tried to sneak into the European places and organized the already safe Angers after a harmful defeat in Monaco.
With more on the line for a lyon side that started the night in seventh place, they did not start surprisingly on top, and somehow they did not take the lead when Lacazette Ainsley Maitland-Niles could only shoot directly to Melvin Zinga instead of placing the one of the visiting retainer.
Lacazette should have added to his 13 league goals this season when he had not submitted the excellent cross to the Ryan Cherki back post.
The only positives Angers could take from the first half was that they had not admitted against a team they had lost the last four games, but they offered very little when the teams went during the break.
The second half started when the first ended, with the hosts by far the most likely side to take the lead.
Lacazette tested Zinga twice early in the second half, and it took a result Zinga challenge on Thiago Almada in the area for Lyon to take the lead, allowing Lacazette to score his 200th goal for Lyon from the place, which Zinga stood in the wrong way to make it 1-0.
Knowing that the target difference could come into play with securing a European place, Lyon insisted to extend their lead, and they did almost precisely that shortly thereafter when Almada struck the post with excellent effort from outside the area.
With the already secure safety, Angers looked happy to give up much of the ball and occasionally venture into the counterattack, their best chance fell on Esteban Lepaul who saw his effort blocked.
Lyon then dropped the victory 20 minutes from the time when Lacazette completed his brace with one of the easiest finishes of his career -a simple tap -in from a Cherki cross.
And it almost got worse for the traveling side when Maitland-Niles crashed a moment later an attempt against the post after he had reached the end of the low cross of Malick Fofana.
In the last minutes, the attention of the Lyon fans was more about events in Lille and Strasbourg. And with a late winner for Lille about Reims, it was about whether or not Le Havre could win against Strasbourg.
Just when all the hope seemed lost, Le Havre won a late penalty in the Stade de la Meinau. That was converted by Abdoulaye Toure, which made Lyon sixth, just when they were changed, undoubtedly causing parties in the dressing room.