Les Lyonnais pay the penalty as Lacazette gets the rotten rating of 3/10

Alexandre Lacazette was one of the worst players in French Ligue 1 this week as he only got the rating of 3/10 in L'Equipe following his team's home defeat at the hands of Clermont.

The French league normally takes the holiday season off but with matches to make up following the World Cup, it played one round immediately after Christmas and another on Sunday and Monday.

They have dubbed the games 'Celebration Week', in English, as a nod to the English tradition of Boxing Day games, but many fans are suspicious or hostile.

Among protest banners unfurled by fans in an almost empty stand at Nantes was one that complained that the league and broadcasters were "killing" them.

In Monaco, Aleksandr Golovin smashed in the only goal from outside the penalty area as the home team did just enough to win. They moved level with Marseille, who are third and visit Montpellier on Monday.

Brest dominated the rest of the second half but could not score and remained 17th and in the relegation places.

Nantes jumped from 16th to 14th as they beat struggling Auxerre with a 73rd minute goal from Marcus Coco. 

Angers remain anchored to the bottom after suffering a ninth straight loss, falling 2-1 to visiting Lorient who broke their own run of six games without a victory.

The home team's Moroccan World Cup stars Sofiane Boufal and Azzedine Ounahi, who have just returned from vacations and reportedly been promised lucrative transfers, were honoured before the match but did not appear.

Angers took the lead with a 10th-minute goal by Abdallah Sima. It was the Senegalese striker's first goal since arriving on loan from Brighton. His second Ligue 1 goal was into his own net as he turned home a corner from Enzo Le Fee in the 79th minute. Le Fee blasted the winner two minutes from time. 

In the early-evening game, Clermont also broke a six-match winless streak as Muhammed Cham rolled an 87th-minute penalty into the corner of the net for a 1-0 victory at Lyon.

World Cup referee Stephanie Frappart awarded the penalty after Castello Lukeba blocked a cross with his hand. Clermont closed to within two points of Lyon in mid-table.

LIGUE 1- Matchday 17

Sunday

Angers - Lorient 1-2 (1-0)

/Sima 10 - Sima 79 og, Le Fee 88/

Monaco - Brest 1-0 (0-0)

/Golovin 54/

Nantes - Auxerre 1-0 (0-0)

/Coco 74/

Toulouse - Ajaccio 2-0 (0-0)

/Ratao 46, Dejaegere 62/

Lyon - Clermont 0-1 (0-0)

/Cham 87 pen/

22:45: (4.00) Lens (3.60) PSG (2.00)

Monday

17:00: (1.85) Strasbourg (3.70) Troyes (4.60)

19:00: (1.65) Lille (3.80) Reims (5.50)

21:00: (4.60) Montpellier (3.60) Olympique Marseille (1.80)

23:00: (1.85) Rennes (3.50) Nice (4.40)

***odds are subject to change***