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Ligue 1 Review: Fekir hat-trick inspires Lyon, Reims take Lorient apart

France international Nabil Fekir scored his first hat-trick in senior football to inspire Lyon to a 4-0 away thrashing of Caen away in Ligue 1.

The talented 22-year-old scored 13 league goals last season and is already well on track to at least match that tally, as a fine hat-trick on Saturday took him to four from as many games this term.

Fekir opened the scoring 18 minutes in, latching on to Corentin Tolisso's through pass and fired into the bottom-left corner.

Damien Da Silva compounded Caen's misery with his 73rd-minute sending off for a dangerous tackle on Claudio Beauvue, but the forward played on and wrapped things up at the end with a stunning strike from the right corner of the penalty area.