Lyon 2-0 Metz
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Alexandre Lacazette has scored 21 league goals this season
Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette limped off as the Ligue 1 leaders beat Metz to go four points clear of Marseille.
Lacazette, 23, who has scored 21 goals in 22 league games this season, opened the scoring from the penalty spot before he was substituted.
Corentin Tolisso added a late second for Lyon against the visitors, who had Guido Milan sent off early on.
Lyon have won seven league games in a row, while Metz stay in the drop zone.
Elsewhere, Caen climbed off the bottom of the table after goals from Sloan Privat, Lenny Nangis, Julien Féret and Damien Da Silva secured a shock 4-1 victory at Rennes.
Evian leapfrogged Toulouse and edged away from the relegation zone after Adrien Thomasson's early goal gave the home side a 1-0 win.
Nineteenth-placed Lens played out a 0-0 draw at mid-table Reims.
On Friday, second-placed Marseille lost 2-1 to 10-man Nice, with Romain Genevois and Niklas Hult scoring for the hosts before Florian Thauvin got one back for Marcelo Bielsa's Marseille side.
Lyon midfielder Corentin Tolisso celebrates scoring his fourth goal of the season