Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Friday 10 November 2006
Result
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Valenciennes
Ligue 1 · Friday 10 November 2006, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Valenciennes: match report
Olympique Lyonnais won against Valenciennes 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Friday 10 November 2006. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Steve Savidan opened the scoring in the 75th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Cris (84') and Sebastien Squillaci (86'). Valenciennes scored through Steve Savidan (75').
Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received no yellow cards; Valenciennes received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 1st on 31 points from 12 and Valenciennes 14th on 14 points from 12. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 1st with 81 points, and Valenciennes 17th with 43.
Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Valenciennes's L-L-W-L-W.
Key events
- 26'Yellow card · R. Mater
- 67'Yellow card · José Saez
- 75'Goal · Steve Savidan
- 82'Yellow card · Laurent Dufresne
- 84'Goal · Cris
- 85'Yellow card · Yacine Bezzaz
- 86'Goal · Sebastien Squillaci
Team news
Olympique Lyonnais line-up
Gregory Coupet, Francois Clerc, Eric Abidal, Sébastien Squillaci, Kim Källström, Florent Malouda, Jérémy Toulalan, Karim Benzema, Cris, Sidney Govou, Tiago
Valenciennes line-up
Nicolas Penneteau, Guillaume Rippert, Rudy Mater, Sébastien Roudet, Yacine Bezzaz, Rudy Haddad, José Saez, Steve Savidan, Laurent Dufresne, Geoffrey Doumeng, Éric Chelle