Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 Valenciennes: result and report
Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 September 2012
Result
Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 Valenciennes
Ligue 1 · Saturday 1 September 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Olympique Lyonnais 3-2 Valenciennes: match report
Olympique Lyonnais beat Valenciennes 3-2 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 1 September 2012. The half-time score was 2-1.
Gil opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Olympique Lyonnais's goals came from Michel Bastos (18'), Bafétimbi Gomis (21', penalty) and Clément Grenier (66'). Valenciennes scored through Gil (12') and Grégory Pujol (76').
Discipline: Olympique Lyonnais received 1 yellow card; Valenciennes received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Olympique Lyonnais were 2nd on 7 points from 3 and Valenciennes 3rd on 7 points from 3. Olympique Lyonnais went on to finish that season 2nd with 67 points, and Valenciennes 12th with 48.
Olympique Lyonnais lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Valenciennes in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Olympique Lyonnais wins, 3 draws and 3 for Valenciennes.
Going into the match Olympique Lyonnais's last five read D-W-W and Valenciennes's W-D-W.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Gil
- 18'Goal · Michel Bastos
- 21'Yellow card · D. Ducourtioux
- 21'Penalty goal · Bafétimbi Gomis
- 42'Yellow card · Anthony Reveillere
- 66'Goal · Clément Grenier
- 76'Goal · Grégory Pujol
Head-to-head
Team news
Olympique Lyonnais line-up (4-2-3-1)
Rémy Vercoutre, Bakary Koné, Anthony Reveillere, Mouhamadou Dabo, Milan Biševac, Clément Grenier, Michel Bastos, Steed Malbranque, Maxime Gonalons, Alexandre Lacazette, Bafétimbi Gomis
Valenciennes line-up (4-2-3-1)
Nicolas Penneteau, Gil, Nicolas Isimat-Mirin, Loris Néry, Rudy Mater, Matthieu Dossevi, Remi Gomis, Gaël Danic, Vincent Aboubakar, Gregory Pujol, David Ducourtioux