Sochaux 1-2 Olympique Lyonnais: result and report
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 29 August 2007
Result
Sochaux 1-2 Olympique Lyonnais
Ligue 1 · Wednesday 29 August 2007, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Sochaux 1-2 Olympique Lyonnais: match report
Sochaux lost to Olympique Lyonnais 1-2 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday 29 August 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.
Karim Benzema opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Sochaux's goal came from Valter Birsa (22', penalty). Olympique Lyonnais scored through Karim Benzema (19') and Mathieu Bodmer (57').
Discipline: Sochaux received 3 yellow cards; Olympique Lyonnais received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sochaux were 19th on 2 points from 5 and Olympique Lyonnais 13th on 6 points from 4. Sochaux went on to finish that season 14th with 44 points, and Olympique Lyonnais 1st with 79.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Sochaux wins, 1 draw and 3 for Olympique Lyonnais.
Going into the match Sochaux's last five read L-L-D-L-D and Olympique Lyonnais's W-L-L-W.
Key events
- 19'Goal · Karim Benzema
- 22'Penalty goal · Valter Birsa
- 25'Yellow card · Rabiu Afolabi
- 46'Yellow card · Guirane N'Daw
- 57'Goal · Mathieu Bodmer
- 67'Yellow card · J. Quercia
- 76'Yellow card · Anthony Reveillere
- 90+3'Yellow card · Loïc Rémy
Head-to-head
Team news
Sochaux line-up (4-2-2-2)
Teddy Richert, Rabiu Afolabi, Maxime Josse, Damien Perquis, Stephane Dalmat, Guirane N'Daw, Badara Sène, Valter Birsa, Julien Quercia, Mevlüt Erdinç, Romain Pitau
Olympique Lyonnais expected line-up
Gregory Coupet, Sébastien Squillaci, Eric Abidal, Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, Florent Malouda, Jérémy Toulalan, Tiago, Cris, Sidney Govou, Fred