Alexandre Lacazette’s hat trick ensured Lyon averted a French Cup upset by beating fifth-tier Chambery 3-0 to succeed in the spherical of 16 on Saturday.
Lyon is underneath strain from its sad followers after poor latest performances and will in poor health afford to slide up at dwelling.
Lacazette settled nerves together with his first aim within the eleventh minute and made it 2-0 within the thirty third, arrange each occasions by Brazilian Teté.
The hat trick was accomplished halfway by the second half, taking Lacazette’s season tally to 14 in 21 video games since rejoining Lyon from Arsenal.
There had been no upsets as Toulouse, Lorient, Reims and Angers had been the opposite top-flight groups to undergo.
Toulouse scored twice in 4 minutes because it beat Ajaccio 2-0 in an all-first-division recreation. Zakaria Aboukhlal and Rafael Ratao netted halfway by the second half.
Lorient received on penalty kicks at second-tier Bastia following a 1-1 draw, and Reims triumphed at fourth-tier Les Herbiers 3-0.
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Angers scraped a 1-0 win at Olympique Strasbourg Koenigshoffen, which has the longest title however was the smallest crew left and performs within the Alsace regional league.
Top-flight neighbor Strasbourg allowed the minnow to borrow its stadium and almost 20,000 followers attended. OSK usually has 100 followers watching its dwelling video games.
Angers is all-time low of the primary division and has not received a league recreation since September, so defender Miha Blazic’s Sixteenth-minute aim was a aid.