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Lyon warm up for Real clash with win; Nuremberg climb Bundesliga

Jimmy Briand capped Lyon's comfortable victory over Nancy with a stunning late overhead kick.
Jimmy Briand capped Lyon's comfortable victory over Nancy with a stunning late overhead kick.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Lyon beat Nancy 4-0 to claim second place in France's Ligue 1 behind Lille
  • Last season's runners-up face Real Madrid again in the Champions League
  • Nuremberg move up to sixth place in German league with 3-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt
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(CNN) -- Lyon moved up to second place in the French league with a 4-0 crushing of Nancy on Friday in a warm-up for next week's Champions League clash with Real Madrid.

Claude Puel's team, runners-up last season, moved to within four points of leaders Lille -- who travel to Montpellier on Sunday.

Lyon can be overtaken again by third-placed Rennes and Marseille, who play Toulouse and Saint-Etienne on Sunday and Saturday respectively.

But midfielder Yoann Gourcuff set the home team on the way to a morale-boosting win ahead of the home leg of the last-16 tie against Real on Tuesday as he volleyed the opener eight minutes before halftime.

Lyon, who eliminated the Spanish side at the same stage last season en route to the semifinals, wrapped up the victory with goals in the final 13 minutes from Jeremy Pied, Miralem Pjanic and Jimmy Briand - the latter a superb overhead kick.

The defeat left Nancy in 14th place, four points above the bottom three.

In Germany, Nuremberg moved up to sixth place in the Bundesliga with a 3-0 victory at home to mid-table Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday.

Second-half goals from Julian Schieber, Robert Mak, and Almog Cohen put Dieter Hecking's team 17 points behind runaway leaders Borussia Dortmund, who host struggling St. Pauli on Saturday.

Third-placed titleholders Bayern Munich travel to Mainz ahead of Wednesday's Champions League final rematch at Inter Milan, while fourth-placed Hanover are at home to lowly Kaiserslautern.

Second-placed Bayer Leverkusen host second-bottom Stuttgart on Sunday.

Frankfurt's Sebastian Rode had a spectacular effort ruled out for offside before on-loan striker Schieber broke the deadlock in the 67th minute with a long-range effort that deceived goalkeeper Oka Nikolov.

Substitute Mak cleverly chipped Nikolov with three minutes left, and young Israeli midfielder Cohen beat the 36-year-old with a low shot from outside the box that went in off the post.

The result left Frankfurt in 12th place, four points above the relegation zone.