Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Montpellier: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 August 2011
Result
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Montpellier
Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 August 2011, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Montpellier: match report
Olympique Lyonnais beat Montpellier 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 27 August 2011. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Miralem Pjanic opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Miralem Pjanic (49') and Jérémy Pied (83'). Montpellier scored through Henri Bedimo (90+1').
Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 4 yellow cards; Montpellier received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 7th on 5 points from 3 and Montpellier 1st on 9 points from 3. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 4th with 64 points, and Montpellier 1st with 82.
Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-4-2 and Montpellier in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 0 draws and 1 for Montpellier.
Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read D-D-W and Montpellier's W-W-W.
Key events
- 43'Yellow card · Geoffrey Dernis
- 43'Yellow card · Vitorino Hilton
- 49'Goal · Miralem Pjanic
- 51'Yellow card · John Utaka
- 55'Yellow card · Kim Källström
- 61'Yellow card · Miralem Pjanic
- 65'Yellow card · Bafétimbi Gomis
- 82'Red card · Younès Belhanda
- 83'Goal · Jérémy Pied
- 90+1'Goal · Henri Bedimo
- 90+3'Yellow card · Alexandre Lacazette
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Lyonnais line-up (4-4-2)
Hugo Lloris, Bakary Koné, Dejan Lovren, Anthony Reveillere, Aly Cissokho, Kim Källström, Michel Bastos, Maxime Gonalons, Lisandro López, Bafétimbi Gomis, Jimmy Briand
Montpellier line-up (4-2-3-1)
Laurent Pionnier, Garry Bocaly, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Henri Bedimo, Younès Belhanda, Geoffrey Dernis, Marco Estrada Quinteros, Jamel Saihi, John Utaka, Olivier Giroud, Vitorino Hilton