Olympique Lyonnais 2-0 Lorient: result and report
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 23 January 2008
Result
Olympique Lyonnais 2-0 Lorient
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 23 January 2008, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Olympique Lyonnais 2-0 Lorient: match report
Olympique Lyonnais beat Lorient 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 23 January 2008. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Hatem Ben Arfa opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Hatem Ben Arfa (29') and Karim Benzema (74'). Lorient did not score.
Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 1 yellow card; Lorient received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 1st on 42 points from 21 and Lorient 8th on 30 points from 21. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 1st with 79 points, and Lorient 10th with 52.
Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-3-3 and Lorient in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 0 draws and 1 for Lorient.
Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read L-W-D-D-L and Lorient's W-L-W-D-W.
Key events
- 29'Goal · Hatem Ben Arfa
- 74'Goal · Karim Benzema
- 75'Yellow card · Karim Benzema
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up (4-3-3)
Rémy Vercoutre, Sébastien Squillaci, Anderson Beraldo, Mathieu Bodmer, Nadir Belhadj, Kim Källström, Hatem Ben Arfa, Fred
Lorient line-up (4-4-2)
Fabien Audard, Benjamin Genton, Alain Cantareil, Christophe Jallet, Fabrice Abriel, Oscar Ewolo, Ulrich Le Pen, Yazid Mansouri, Marama Vahirua, Mickaël Ciani, Rafik Saifi