Football: Timely boost for Lyon as Lacazette returns

Football: Timely boost for Lyon as Lacazette returns
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Summary Lacazette, 23, who has scored 21 goals this season, is included in coach Hubert Fournier's squad.

LYON (AFP) - Lyon received a timely boost before Sunday s match at Nantes with the news that the league s top scorer Alexandre Lacazette will be back after injury.

Lacazette, 23, who has scored 21 goals this season, is included in coach Hubert Fournier s squad for the first time since pulling a hamstring in the 2-0 win over Metz at the end of January.

"It s reassuring to have him back. But we shouldn t think he can singlehandedly solve all of our worries or get back on the same form he was earlier", Fournier said.

However, Lyon, who enjoy a two-point lead over Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain with 13 games remaining, will have to do without defender Christophe Jallet, who has a thigh injury, and midfielder Arnold Mvuemba, who has a broken toe.

 

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