- Olympique Lyonnais-Lille Olympique Sporting Club Saturday September 23rd @ 17:15 Ligue 1 Matchday 7 Stade Gerland Lille will look to rebound from a disapointing loss, 3-1 to a surging Toulouse squad last week. Lille are currently in 6th position on 10 points (3-1-2) Lyon return home after beating recently promoted Lorient last week 3-1. That win kept Lyon on top of the table with 16 points (5-1-0). Lyon are still level with Marseille, but they have evened up the goal difference and taken the lead by ways of having scored more then Marseille.
Tiago may not play Tiago incertain contre Lille Le milieu portugais de l'Olympique lyonnais, Tiago, victime d'une rhino-pharyngite, ne s'est pas entraîné normalement cette semaine. Il est très incertain pour la rencontre samedi face à Lille.
That sucks...but it will give us a chance to see Kallstrom start. Maybe we can have Juni & Kallstrom, and give Diarra a chance in the middle.
a cold. the blurb i saw said he's be game ready, but if you have that big a squad, it's not to put sick players on the field. besides, källström ROCKS! my son wants a n°6 europe jersey for xmas! btw, we don't have tix for this match... they were apparently available on tuesday, but when i suggested at breakfast we should get seats, madelon said she'd make a stop at the fnac, but guignol jr... didn't want to go! because lille scares the bejeezus out of him. we just can't beat them dawgs!
all the more reason to show your support junior! well...if the kid doesnt want to go, he doesnt want to go. just take away his allowance for a week.
Les équipes probables: OL 4-3-3 ----------------Freddie----------------- --Flo------------------------------Sid-- ----------Juni (c)-------Kim------------ ----------------Jeremy----------------- -Eric------------------------------Anto- -----------Pat---------Policier---------- -----------------Greg------------------- Absentees - Tiago, Cacapa, Carew Toulalan may well be lisenced to go forward in the place of Kallstrom. In such a case, Diarra will hold the midfield. LOSC 4-2-3-1 ---------------Odemwingie--------------- --Bastos--------------------------Keita-- -----------------Bodmer----------------- ----------Makoun-------Cabaye---------- -Tafforeau (c)--------------------Chalme- ------------Plestan-----Rafael------------ ------------------Malicki------------------ Absentees: Debuchy, Sylva Puel has hinted at an offensive approach before the game, so I'm expecting a quite open battle. Also, it should come as no surprise that Lille may try to get physical in the midfield. The man to watch on this side is Keita and Abidal should better be up to the task of holding him. In the second half, he'll switch to the other side and torment Reveillere.
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I do love that (c) next to juni's name....This will be a tough game, sans aucun doute because lille seem to have our number in league fixtures however i feel in light of our recent form, in particular with a motivated kallstrom in the starting eleven in front of a packed gerland, i like our chances
In the 38th minute its Lyon 1-1 Lille. Malouda scored for Lyon in the 6th minute, and a ball (struck by Makoun I think) hit Cris and went in as an own goal in the 23rd minute.
spectacular match. so glad i went to Nevada Smith's in Manhattan to watch it. There were times in the second half where OL seemed like they could do whatever they wanted, a bit like Arsenal during their "invincibles" period, and looked like they could just score at will. Lille looked just completely overwhelmed by that point and Coupet was never tested at all. (the only goal for Lille was a bit of a freak own goal by Cris) Lille had some threatening moments in the first half but not many. Fred had a monster game, his chest control and backheel pass to Juninho to set up the second goal was the highlight for me. Kallstrom particularly impressed me as well...much more than Toulalan. And well Malouda, he just keeps getting better and better. its almost scary.
I went to Nevada Smith's to watch the CL match against Real when I was in NY 2 weeks ago. My favorite pub in the world.
The first half was laborious, the team was just out of synch with the ball and with each other. individual talent enabled us to just keep our head above water against a better organized lille squad. malouda's goal was against the run of play but great teams always seem lucky... the second half was "another pair of sleeves" as they say... juni's goal off fred's heel kick was gorgeous, and the two combined in the other direction for another nice score. abidal's great work to set up fred again was icing on the cake; lille seemed to have already turned their attention to milan. coupet was perfect. you can't often use this word in football, but look at everything he did and tell me where you'd change anything by a millimeter or a millisecond. enormous. it took a bit of luck to stop makoun's shot, but not only luck! squillaci started instead of müller and did a bangup job; unbeatable in the air, always in position (on the right, cris sliding over) and covering lots of ground. he clearly wants to grab his chance for a CL match, he must have been shocked as hell to see pat start against real! cris on the other hand was very pale; maybe he had tiago's cold, our whole family and half of lyon does! there are own goals that are actually heroic, those that are unfortunate, those that are stupid... cris's was just lazy. since he's arrived in lyon he's never played a match this bad, and my guess it will be a long time before he does another. in bucharest he's going to be a monster. RVR and abidal on the wings were true to themselves, good matches both in their own styles. juninho pulled off a roulette in the first minute that presaged great things... but we had to wait over a half to see any. OL played two completely different halves, and juni especially. toulalan had a great work rate, but needs to raise the effectiveness of his work. but he looks to me like a player that needs the team around him playing well to play well. källström on the other hand doesn't seem to need anything but the ball. besides tackling and constantly helping out everybody around him he forced the lille keeper into a monster save and offered the 5-1 ball first to benzema and a few minutes later to malouda, but both of them shot to the keeper. if not for squillaci's big match i would have called kim MOTM for the second week in a row. govou and malouda also had matches in their own image: sid ineffective despite some glimmers of genius, flo solid and dependable. not to say govou won't score a hattrick in bucharest, you know sid, never doing what you expect! as for flo, his shifting into the center seems to be great for the EdF, but i'm not sure he wouldn't do better to keep closer to the line for OL... fred played like carew in the first half, just holding his ground and looking for balls to turn with. he got one and shot on goal just a bit too weakly to score. in the second half he started running and the result was an avalanche. even with a flat first half you half to call this a satisfying win since even at 3/4 speed we beat a direct opponent for the title 4-1.