Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Nancy: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 September 2008

Result

Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Nancy

Ligue 1 · Saturday 27 September 2008, 17:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 Nancy: match report

Olympique Lyonnais defeated Nancy 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 27 September 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Karim Benzema opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Karim Benzema (31') and Fred (36'). Nancy scored through Pascal Berenguer (37').

Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 1 yellow card; Nancy received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 1st on 16 points from 6 and Nancy 13th on 7 points from 6. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 3rd with 71 points, and Nancy 15th with 42.

Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-1-2-3 and Nancy in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 1 draw and 0 for Nancy.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Yellow card · Jérémy ToulalanOlympique Lyonnais
  • 22'Yellow card · Abdeslam OuaddouNancy
  • 31'Goal · Karim BenzemaOlympique Lyonnais · 1-0
  • 36'Goal · FredOlympique Lyonnais · 2-0
  • 37'Goal · Pascal BerenguerNancy · 2-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Youssouf HadjiNancy
  • 56'Yellow card · Michaël ChrétienNancy

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Olympique Lyonnais 5, draws 1, Nancy 0.

Team news

Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up (4-1-2-3)

Gregory Coupet, Anthony Reveillere, Sébastien Squillaci, Francois Clerc, Mathieu Bodmer, Jérémy Toulalan, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Kim Källström, Karim Benzema, Sidney Govou, Fred

Nancy expected line-up (4-4-2)

Michaël Chrétien, André Luiz, Jonathan Brison, Damián Macaluso, Landry N'Guemo, Pascal Berenguer, Chris Malonga, Issiar Dia, Marc-Antoine Fortune, Monsef Zerka, Gennaro Bracigliano