Ending the year as they mean to go on, a resurgent Lyon host Nantes at the Groupama Stadium on Wednesday evening in their final Ligue 1 fixture of 2023.
Les Gones recorded back-to-back wins for the first time this season by overcoming Monaco 1-0 at the weekend, while Les Canaris succumbed to a 2-0 home defeat to Brest.
Five days after crushing Toulouse 3-0 for just their second top-flight victory of the new term, Lyon made a brief Principality stopover for a date with title outsiders Monaco, who endured an off day in front of goal and were made to pay when Jeffinho finished a sweeping move in the 68th minute.
The home crowd on Wednesday may still look back on 2023 for all the wrong reasons, but a pair of victories with two clean sheets to boot mean that Lyon enter the midweek round of fixtures outside of the automatic relegation zone, currently occupying the playoff place with a one-point buffer to Lorient.
Victory on Wednesday could even propel the reinvigorated seven-time champions as high as 13th if other results go their way - as well as a significant swing in goal difference - and Les Gones last won three top-flight games on the bounce as recently as April.
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