Olympique Lyonnais - Thierry Henry

In November we will see Lyon play a total of six matches. Four games in Ligue 1, against Nice, Guingamp, Bastia, and Saint Etienne. Also two Europa League matches against Standard Liege and Slovan Liberec. Lyon can secure their place in the first knock out round in the Europa League and establish their good position in Ligue 1. Let´s see how it went out.

Lineup: Lopes; Tolisso, Koné, Umtiti, Bedimo; Gonalons, Malbranque (88´); Boudebouz (88´), Grenier, Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Gorgelin, Bisevac, Dabo, Mvuemba, Ferri (88´), Stevanovic (88´), Yattara.
Gaël Danic (26´), Ryad Boudebouz (41´, 53´), Alexandre Lacazette (51´), Clement Grenier (90+3´)
Corentin Tolisso (51´), Samuel Umtiti (63´)
Ryad Boudebouz (9.0)

Lineup: Lopes; Jallet, Koné, Bisevac, Bedimo; Gonalons (77´), Malbranque; Stevanovic, Grenier (77´), Danic; Lacazette (77´).
Subs: Gorgelin, Rose, Dabo, Tolisso (77´), Ferri, Fekir (77´), Boudebouz (77´).
Henri Bedimo (44´), Alexandre Lacazette (54´)
Bakary Koné (5´), Christophe Jallet (23´), Milan Bisevac (26´), Maxime Gonalons (55´), Henri Bedimo (57´)
Henri Bedimo (7.6)
Nabil Fekir (Gashed lower leg, 7-10 days)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Bisevac (84´), Umtiti, Bedimo; Gonalons, Malbranque (63´); Boudebouz, Grenier, Danic (76´); Lacazette.
Subs: Gorgelin, Rose (84´), Dabo, Tolisso, Ferri, Fekir (63´), Stevanovic (76´).
Alexandre Lacazette (26´, 39´, 43´)
Henri Bedimo (90+1´)
Alexandre Lacazette (9.5)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Rose, Koné, Umtiti; Tolisso (77´), Malbranque (77´); Stevanovic, Grenier, Danic; Lacazette (77´).
Subs: Lopes, Bisevac, Mvuemba (77´), Ferri (77´), Fekir (77´), Ghezzal, Boudebouz.
Alexandre Lacazette (70´)
Gaël Danic (50´), Bakary Koné (60´)
Gaël Danic (7.9)

Lineup: Lopes; Jallet, Koné, Umtiti, Bedimo; Gonalons, Malbranque (79´); Boudebouz (47´), Grenier (79´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Gorgelin, Bisevac, Dabo, Tolisso (79´), Ferri, Fekir (79´), Stevanovic (47´)
Steed Malbranque (4´), Samuel Umtiti (18´), Maxime Gonalons (45´), Miroslav Stevanovic (57´)
Maxime Gonalons (10´), Henri Bedimo (24´), Clement Grenier (36´), Bakary Koné (42´)
Steed Malbranque (8.7)

Lineup: Gorgelin; Jallet, Bisevac, Umtiti (77´), Dabo; Tolisso, Malbranque (77´); Boudebouz, Grenier (77´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Frick, Rose (77´), Mvuemba, Ferri (77´), Fekir (77´), Ghezzal, Stevanovic.
Clement Grenier (25´)
Mouhamadou Dabo (7.7)

One place better since last month. Now were on a second place in the league with three points up to the leader PSG, but we have one game in hand! I´m very happy with our league form and our second place.

We´ve secured the first place in the group wich mean that we´ll play in the first knock out round next year. I´m very happy for that. It was one of the goals for me when the season began. We have one game left, against Slovan Bratislava. Then we have to wait for the draw.

The Player of the Month award of November goes to Alexandre Lacazette. Who else? Alex had another great month, scoring six goals in six matches. He leads the scoring league in both Ligue 1 and Europa League. I´m very happy for him, great player and great guy!

"A good month. Securing the first place in the Europa League group was very good and I´m very happy with our current place in Ligue 1. There was only one little dissappointment, the 1-1 draw against Saint Etienne. I think that we were unlucky, we deserved to win. But the team has done well this month and it´s a pleasure to manage them."

Lyon will play five games in December. Three in Ligue 1 against Stade de Reims, Evian and Bordeaux. The last game in the Europa League group against Slovan Bratislava. And aswell they will enter Coupe de la Ligue with a game against Evian. Hopefully Lyon will end the year in a good way. Stay tuned to find out!

Today the draw of the first knock out round of Europa League was held. Olympique Lyon will face the italian team Torino. The matches will be played the 19th and the 26th of February.

Torino has had a good season this far. They qualified for the first knock out round through a second place in their group behind Saint Etienne and they are currently 5th placed in the italian Serie A. Their key players is the italian international Matteo Darmian and the former Juventus player Fabio Quagliarella.


There are many good teams in this years Europa League and there will be some really good and interesting matches in the first knock out round, like PSG vs Tottenham and Sevilla vs Inter. If Lyon qualify for the next round they will meet the winner in the games between Sevilla and Inter in the second knock out round.

December for Olympique Lyonnais will contain a total of five matches. Three in Ligue 1, against Stade de Reims, Evian and Bordeaux. The last game in the Europa League group versus Slovan Bratislava. Aswell they will enter Coupe de la Ligue in a game against Evian. Now let´s see how the month went out for Lyon.

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Umtiti, Bisevac, Bedimo; Tolisso, Malbranque; Boudebouz (79´), Grenier (59´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose, Dabo, Ferri, Fekir (59´), Ghezzal (79´), Stevanovic (79´)
Alexandre Lacazette (9´), Clement Grenier (17´)
Henri Bedimo (50´)
Alexandre Lacazette (8.3)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Umtiti, Koné (68´), Bedimo; Gonalons, Ferri; Boudebouz, Grenier (58´), Danic; Lacazette (68´)
Subs: Lopes, Bisevac (68´), Dabo, Tolisso, Malbranque, Fekir (58´), Stevanovic (68´)
Alexandre Lacazette (27´)
Bakary Koné (19´), Maxime Gonalons (78´)
Alexandre Lacazette (7.3)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Umtiti, Rose (79´), Bedimo; Gonalons, Malbranque (78´); Boudebouz, Grenier (83´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Dabo (79´), Mvuemba, Ferri (78´), Fekir (83´), Stevanovic, Yattara.
Alexandre Lacazette (37´, 75´), Gaël Danic (44´)
Lindsay Rose (72´), Samuel Umtiti (84´)
Alexandre Lacazette (8.6)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Umtiti, Koné (37´), Bedimo; Tolisso (78´), Malbranque; Boudebouz, Grenier (78´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose (37´), Dabo, Ferri (78´), Fekir (78´), Stevanovic, Yattara.
Gaël Danic (18´), Clement Grenier (20´), Alexandre Lacazette (29´)
Alexandre Lacazette (25´), Henri Bedimo (56´), Lindsay Rose (73´), Samuel Umtiti (90´)
Clement Grenier (8.8)
Bakary Koné (Bruised thigh, 4-5 days), Corentin Tolisso (Twisted ankle, 3 weeks)

Lineup: Lopes; Jallet, Umtiti, Kone (62´), Bedimo; Gonalons (78´), Malbranque; Stevanovic, Fekir (62´), Danic; Yattara.
Subs: Gorgelin, Rose (62´), Tolisso (78´), Grenier (62´), Boudebouz, Lacazette.
Steed Malbranque (7´, 13´, 55´)
Henri Bedimo (28´)
Steed Malbranque (9.5)

Lyon is still in the second place with one game in hand in Ligue 1. Next month will contain some tough matches against Marseille and Monaco. But if Lyon play good they can keep their good league position.

This month Lyon played their last game in the Europa League group, a 3-1 win against Slovan Bratislava after Steed Malbranque's stunning hatrick. Lyon finished on a first place in the group and will now face the italian side Torino in the first knock out round. If they qualify they will meet the winner in the Sevilla vs Inter game.

Lyon also qualified for the quarter final of Coupe de la Ligue after a good performeance in the 3-0 win against Evian. Lyon will now face Olympique Marseille in a tough game in the quarter final.

The Lyon Player of the Month award goes to Alexandre Lacazette. Again! He had another stunning month, scoring five goals in four matches. Aswell he was selected the Man of the Match in three of those four games. Lacazette is playing great football at the moment and he´s the top scorer of both Ligue 1 and Europa League. It must be a pleasure for Henry to have such a good player in the squad.

"It was a pretty good month. I´m pleased with the results in Ligue 1 except from the dissappointing draw against Evian. We´re qualified for the next round in Coupe de la Ligue, which I´m happy for. The cup is a great possibility to win a trophy. We´ll face Torino in the first knock out round in Europa League after a good performeances in the group stage. I´m really looking forward to that. But now on to the next month!

January will be a very tough month with many games and many though ones, like Marseille twice and Monaco. The goals for next month is to keep our position in Ligue 1 and qualify for the next rounds in Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France.

solid month!

Great month again good luck V Torino

RD17: Thanks mate!
wellsy1498: Thanks mate! It will be two good matches, but I think that we can qualify!

Olympique Lyonnais are today pleased to be able to announce that Steed Malbranque has extended his contract with the club until the 30th of June 2016.

Steed has played 20 matches for Lyon this season and he has played a total of 102 matches for the club since joining on a free transfer in August 2012.

Malbranque has signed a contract that keeps him at the club until the summer of 2016. The contract is worth €39k per week.

Really love the formatting, great job so far

Well written story, and good performance from the team

dshaw292 & Icarus: Thanks guys!

Olypmique Lyonnais are today delighted to announce that we have reached an agreement with Strömgodset IF over the transfer of Martin Ödegaard.

Martin has signed a contract worth €12k per week until 2017. Many of the biggest clubs in Europe was interested of Martin, like Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern München. But Martin chose Lyon. He said following to Lyon's official website: "I´m very happy to have signed for Lyon. It´s a great club and I´m sure that I can develop to a great player here.

The 16-year old norweigan has scored four goals and played a total of 27 matches for Strömgodset this season. He has also made four matches with the norweigan U-21 national team, scoring twice.

great progress so far! ödegaard is a magnificiant signing

Good to see that you are still going strong! Nice captures with Valdes and Ödegaard aswell, lets hope that he can fullfil his potential.

TaroMiskaki: Thanks mate!
TheOtherSpecialOne: Thanks! Yeah I really needed a keeper and Ödegaard is a great talent!

Olympique Lyonnais can today confirm that two players will leave the club. Arnold Mvuemba will leave the club in a transfer to Bastia worth €2m while Rachid Ghezzal will spend the rest of the season on loan at the Belgian side Genk.

Mvuemba played four games this season for Lyon. He made a total of 52 matches since joining the club from Lorient in 2012 for €3m.

Rachid Ghezzal played eight games for Lyon this season. He has made a total of 27 games for the club. He´ll now join Genk on loan until the end of the season. There is no buy option in the deal.