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Houllier delighted with collective display

3/13/2006

PARIS, March 12 (AFP): Four-time champions Lyon dealt out a footballing lesson to relegation-haunted Metz in a crushing 4-0 demolition at Stade Gerland Saturday to maintain their nine-point lead at the top of the table.
Fresh from a morale-boosting destruction of PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League in midweek, where Lyon won 4-0 at home to claim a 5-0 aggregate score-line, Gerard Houllier's men showed they will not let their European dreams distract them from the more humdrum task of maintaining domestic domination.