Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Nancy: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 September 2008
Result
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Nancy
Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 September 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Nancy: match report
Olympique Lyonnais defeated Nancy 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 27 September 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Karim Benzema opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Karim Benzema (31') and Fred (36'). Nancy scored through Pascal Berenguer (37').
Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 1 yellow card; Nancy received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 1st on 16 points from 6 and Nancy 13th on 7 points from 6. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 3rd with 71 points, and Nancy 15th with 42.
Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nancy in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 1 draw and 0 for Nancy.
Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read W-W-W-W-D and Nancy's D-D-W-D-L.
Key events
- 19'Yellow card · Jérémy Toulalan
- 22'Yellow card · Abdeslam Ouaddou
- 31'Goal · Karim Benzema
- 36'Goal · Fred
- 37'Goal · Pascal Berenguer
- 55'Yellow card · Youssouf Hadji
- 56'Yellow card · Michaël Chrétien
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up (4-3-3)
Gregory Coupet, Sébastien Squillaci, Francois Clerc, Anthony Reveillere, Jérémy Toulalan, Kim Källström, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Sidney Govou, Cris
Nancy expected line-up (4-4-2)
Michaël Chrétien, André Luiz, Jonathan Brison, Damián Macaluso, Landry N'Guemo, Pascal Berenguer, Chris Malonga, Issiar Dia, Marc-Antoine Fortune, Monsef Zerka, Gennaro Bracigliano