Rangers 0-3 Olympique Lyonnais: result and report

Champions League · Wednesday 12 December 2007

Result

Rangers 0-3 Olympique Lyonnais

Champions League · Wednesday 12 December 2007, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Rangers 0-3 Olympique Lyonnais: match report

Rangers lost to Olympique Lyonnais 0-3 in the Champions League on Wednesday 12 December 2007. The half-time score was 0-1.

Sidney Govou opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Rangers did not score. Olympique Lyonnais scored through Sidney Govou (16'), Karim Benzema (85') and Karim Benzema (88').

Discipline: Rangers received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Olympique Lyonnais received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Rangers were 3rd on 17 points from 9 and Olympique Lyonnais 33rd on 7 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

Rangers lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Olympique Lyonnais in a 4-3-3.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · Kevin ThomsonRangers
  • 16'Goal · Sidney GovouOlympique Lyonnais · 0-1
  • 23'Yellow card · Alan HuttonRangers
  • 48'Yellow card · Sidney GovouOlympique Lyonnais
  • 56'Yellow card · Carlos CuéllarRangers
  • 56'Yellow card · Juninho PernambucanoOlympique Lyonnais
  • 85'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 0-2
  • 88'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 0-3
  • 90+1'Red card · J. DarchevilleRangers

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Rangers 1, draws 0, Olympique Lyonnais 0.

Team news

Rangers line-up (4-1-4-1)

Allan McGregor, Alan Hutton, Sasa Papac, Steven Whittaker, Kevin Thomson, David Weir, Barry Ferguson, Brahim Hemdani, Carlos Cuéllar, Lee McCulloch, Daniel Cousin

Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up (4-3-3)

Rémy Vercoutre, Sébastien Squillaci, Anderson Beraldo, Mathieu Bodmer, Nadir Belhadj, Kim Källström, Hatem Ben Arfa, Fred