Olympique Lyonnais 4-2 Bordeaux: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 9 March 2008

Result

Olympique Lyonnais 4-2 Bordeaux

Ligue 1 · Sunday 9 March 2008, 19:55 UTC · half-time 2-1

Olympique Lyonnais · Bordeaux · Ligue 1 predictions

Olympique Lyonnais 4-2 Bordeaux: match report

Olympique Lyonnais defeated Bordeaux 4-2 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 9 March 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Mathieu Bodmer opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Mathieu Bodmer (12'), Mathieu Bodmer (24'), Karim Benzema (50') and Abdul Keïta (90+3'). Bordeaux scored through Wendel (35') and Fernando Cavenaghi (60', penalty).

Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 4 yellow cards; Bordeaux received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 1st on 55 points from 27 and Bordeaux 2nd on 52 points from 27. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 1st with 79 points, and Bordeaux 2nd with 75.

Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-3-3 and Bordeaux in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 2 draws and 1 for Bordeaux.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Yellow card · FredOlympique Lyonnais
  • 6'Yellow card · HenriqueBordeaux
  • 7'Yellow card · Matthieu ChalméBordeaux
  • 12'Goal · Mathieu BodmerOlympique Lyonnais · 1-0
  • 24'Goal · Mathieu BodmerOlympique Lyonnais · 2-0
  • 34'Yellow card · Fabio GrossoOlympique Lyonnais
  • 35'Goal · WendelBordeaux · 2-1
  • 47'Yellow card · WendelBordeaux
  • 50'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 3-1
  • 60'Penalty goal · Fernando CavenaghiBordeaux · 3-2
  • 64'Yellow card · Abdul KeïtaOlympique Lyonnais
  • 69'Yellow card · Anthony ReveillereOlympique Lyonnais
  • 80'Yellow card · Alejandro AlonsoBordeaux
  • 86'Yellow card · Marouane ChamakhBordeaux
  • 90+3'Goal · Abdul KeïtaOlympique Lyonnais · 4-2

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Olympique Lyonnais 2, draws 2, Bordeaux 1.

Team news

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

Sébastien Squillaci, Mathieu Bodmer, Francois Clerc, Anthony Reveillere, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Jérémy Toulalan, Nadir Belhadj, Karim Benzema, Sidney Govou

Bordeaux line-up (4-3-3)

Henrique, Franck Jurietti, Souleymane Diawara, Fernando, Johan Micoud, Alejandro Alonso, Wendel, Fernando Cavenaghi, Alou Diarra, Ulrich Ramé, Matthieu Chalmé