Olympique Lyonnais 2-0 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 3 November 2007
Result
Olympique Lyonnais 2-0 Valenciennes
Ligue 1 · Saturday 3 November 2007, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Olympique Lyonnais 2-0 Valenciennes: match report
Olympique Lyonnais won against Valenciennes 2-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 3 November 2007. The half-time score was 1-0.
Juninho Pernambucano opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Juninho Pernambucano (40') and Sidney Govou (87'). Valenciennes did not score.
Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 2 yellow cards; Valenciennes received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 1st on 28 points from 12 and Valenciennes 9th on 18 points from 12. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 1st with 79 points, and Valenciennes 13th with 45.
Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-3-3 and Valenciennes in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Olympique Lyonnais win, 1 draw and 0 for Valenciennes.
Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read W-W-W-W-D and Valenciennes's L-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 40'Goal · Juninho Pernambucano
- 64'Yellow card · Fábio Santos
- 80'Yellow card · Juninho Pernambucano
- 87'Goal · Sidney Govou
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up (4-3-3)
Gregory Coupet, Sébastien Squillaci, Eric Abidal, Francois Clerc, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Florent Malouda, Jérémy Toulalan, Sidney Govou, Tiago, Cris
Valenciennes line-up (4-4-2)
Nicolas Penneteau, David Sommeil, Mody Traoré, Rudy Mater, Carlos Sánchez, Sébastien Roudet, José Saez, Gregory Pujol, Filip Sebo, David Ducourtioux, A. Ouaddou