Olympique Lyonnais 3-1 Benfica: result and report

Olympique Lyonnais 3-1 Benfica

Champions League · Tuesday 5 November 2019, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Olympique Lyonnais defeated Benfica 3-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday 5 November 2019. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Joachim Andersen opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Joachim Andersen (4'), Memphis Depay (33') and Bertrand Traoré (89'). Benfica scored through Haris Seferovic (76').

Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received no yellow cards; Benfica received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 31st on 4 points from 3 and Benfica 48th on 3 points from 3. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Benfica in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Joachim Andersen of Olympique Lyonnais (8.2), ahead of Houssem Aouar (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Olympique Lyonnais win, 0 draws and 2 for Benfica.

Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read L-W-D and Benfica's W-L-L.