Metz 1-5 Olympique Lyonnais: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 15 September 2007

Result

Metz 1-5 Olympique Lyonnais

Ligue 1 · Saturday 15 September 2007, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-3

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Metz 1-5 Olympique Lyonnais: match report

Metz lost to Olympique Lyonnais 1-5 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 15 September 2007. The half-time score was 0-3.

Karim Benzema opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Metz's goal came from Babacar Gueye (46'). Olympique Lyonnais scored through Karim Benzema (4'), Karim Benzema (36'), Karim Benzema (38'), Hatem Ben Arfa (58') and Juninho Pernambucano (86').

Discipline: Metz received 1 yellow card; Olympique Lyonnais received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Metz were 20th on 2 points from 7 and Olympique Lyonnais 5th on 12 points from 6. Metz went on to finish that season 20th with 24 points, and Olympique Lyonnais 1st with 79.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Metz wins, 0 draws and 2 for Olympique Lyonnais.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 0-1
  • 36'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 0-2
  • 38'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 0-3
  • 46'Goal · Babacar GueyeMetz · 1-3
  • 58'Goal · Hatem Ben ArfaOlympique Lyonnais · 1-4
  • 76'Yellow card · Cedric BarbosaMetz
  • 86'Goal · Juninho PernambucanoOlympique Lyonnais · 1-5

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Metz 0, draws 0, Olympique Lyonnais 2.

Team news

Metz line-up (4-4-2)

Christophe Marichez, Matheus Vivian, Sebastien Bassong, Pape Diop, Eric Cubilier, Luís Delgado, Milan Thomas, Laurent Agouazi, Daniel Gygax, Cedric Barbosa, Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona

Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up

Gregory Coupet, Sébastien Squillaci, Eric Abidal, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Florent Malouda, Jérémy Toulalan, Tiago, Cris, Sidney Govou, Fred