CdL- QUARTER FINALS: LORIENT vs. LYON

Quarter-final – Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Stade du Moustoir, Lorient
11:00 EST(17:00CET, 16:00GMT)

Well, Sunday saw OL stumble out of the CdF. While I’m not really upset- the referee did gift Monaco’s Nene that intial penalty that led to the first goal- I am a bit disillusioned for other reasons. Not only was it Lyon’s first loss of the New Year, but we eventually saw our chances for acquiring silverware this season, essentially cut in half in the span of ninety minutes. More troubling than being thumped-out of the CdF race however, was the manner in which it happened: Although we really only conceaded one goal, the worst part of our performance was actually that of our offense, once again, showing those woeful signs of impotence that have characterized much its performance this season, and in the end a defender, and someone who’s given up so many of the twenty plus goals we’ve couged-up this season, Boumsong scores the only goal.

So it is that Wednesday, OL head back to Brittany to take-on a Lorient side- this time to dispute the CdL- that we dispatched 3-1 just last week in league play, in what was a beautiful second half display of football on the part of our offense. Anyway, sorry for the short post guys, but I already wrote about Lorient in a post last week, so you can go check-out the history of meetings between the two teams or Les Merlus’ current form- minus their latest loss to Lyon- here.

This is Puel’s last shot at any hardware this season, so I imagine he’ll be fielding the best unit he can.

Out: Cris (suspended), Anderson, Bodmer, Clerc, Makoun.

Le groupe lyonnais: Lloris, Vercoutre – A. Cissokho, Boumsong, Lovren, Réveillère, Gassama – Källström, Toulalan, Gonalons, Grenier, Ederson, Pjanic; Bastos, Delgado, Govou, B. Gomis, Tafer, Lisandro.

Lloris
Reveillere-Lovren-Boumsong-Cissokho
Toulalan-Gonalons
Delgado-Ederson-Bastos
Lisandro

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