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
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.
Key events
- 10'Yellow card · Kevin Thomson
- 16'Goal · Sidney Govou
- 23'Yellow card · Alan Hutton
- 48'Yellow card · Sidney Govou
- 56'Yellow card · Carlos Cuéllar
- 56'Yellow card · Juninho Pernambucano
- 85'Goal · Karim Benzema
- 88'Goal · Karim Benzema
- 90+1'Red card · J. Darcheville
Head-to-head
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