The answer was awaited by Christophe Galtier.
After its draw last Sunday against Brest (0-0) and its defeat Thursday against Ajax Amsterdam in the Europa League (1-2), Lille resumed its forward march by winning Sunday without too many worries in Lorient (1-4) who had been undefeated for five games (3 wins, 2 draws).
Le Losc takes back its leader's chair occupied since Friday by Lyon after its victory in Brest (2-3) and puts pressure on PSG.
The Parisians are four points behind before the shock against Monaco this Sunday evening (9 p.m.) at the end of this 26th day of L1.
What you must remember
A rather well controlled match for the leader.
Lille will only have doubted a few minutes after the equalizer of Jérôme Hergault, who discovered the L1 at almost 35 years old (1-1, 23rd) in the wake of the goal against his side of Lorientais Gravillon (0-1, 20th ).
But Christophe Galtier's players then made good use of two bad raises in the axis.
On the missed dismissal of Enzo Lefée, Lille captain José Fonté shoots a shot at the entrance to the area (1-2, 38th).
After another revival in the axis of Lorient, Lille gets a free kick at the entrance to the area.
Jonathan Ikoné's curled shot from the left leaves Dreyer unresponsive (1-3, 58th).
On a counter-attack, Domagoj Bradaric scored his first goal in L1 on the fifth assist of the season from Turkish Yusuf Yazici (1-4, 90th).
Lille have found themselves and send a strong message to their opponents.
The player: José Fonté
The Lille captain has scored his sixth goal in Ligue 1 since arriving in France in 2018. But it is the first that the 37-year-old Portuguese central defender has scored.
Fonte had scored the previous five with the head.
The number: 7
With this new show of force, Lille has shown its ability to travel well.
This is his seventh consecutive away win.
The reaction
"My free kick?
I stroked the ball and it went on the safe side.
We are happy.
After our missteps against Brest and Ajax, we had to catch up.
We had to find our ability to play together, that we had lost a bit, “responded Jonathan Ikoné, attacking midfielder from Lille, author of the third goal from a free kick.