Olympique Lyonnais - Thierry Henry

Olympique Lyonnais are today pleased to announce that the winger Gaël Danic has extended his contract with the club until the 30th of June 2017.

Danic has played 28 matches for Olympique Lyon this season and he has played a total of 48 matches for the club since joining the club from Valenciennes for €800k in 2013.

Gaël's extension of the contract keeps him at the club until the summer of 2017 and the contract is worth €22.5k a week.

Lyon will play a total of nine games in January. Against Marseille, Caen, Toulouse, Lens, Metz and Monaco in Ligue 1, against Red Star and Dijon in Coupe de France and against Marseille in Coupe de la Ligue. It´ll be a tough month for Lyon with many matches. Also three players will be missing. Ryad Boudebouz, Nabil Fekir and Henri Bedimo will play the African Cup of Nations. But now let´s see how it went out.

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Umtiti, Bisevac, Dabo (90´); Gonalons, Malbranque; Stevanovic (57´), Ödegaard (85´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose, Koné (90´), Mvuemba, Bahlouli (85´), Ghezzal (57´), Yattara.
Miroslav Stevanovic (31´), Alexandre Lacazette (43´) - Dimitri Payet (14´)
Mouhamadou Dabo (4´), Maxime Gonalons (48´) - Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik (52´)
Alexandre Lacazette (7.8) - Dimitri Payet (7.6)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Koné, Rose, Umtiti; Gonalons (77´), Mvuemba; Stevanovic (77´), Bahlouli (77´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Bisevac, Dabo, Malbranque, Tolisso (77´), Ödegaard (77´), Yattara (77´)
Miroslav Stevanovic (7´), Alexandre Lacazette (15´)
Bakary Koné (61´) - Jordan Adeoti (90+1´)
Cristophe Jallet (7.7) - Alexandre Raineau (6.9)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Bisevac, Umtiti, Dabo; Gonalons, Tolisso; Stevanovic (80´), Grenier (65´), Danic; Lacazette (69´).
Subs: Lopes, Koné, Rose, Malbranque (65´), Ödegaard, Bahlouli (80´), Yattara (69´)
Miroslav Stevanovic (17´), Alexandre Lacazette (60´) - Wissam Ben Yedder (90+1´)
Abel Aguilar (58´), William Matheus (60´)
Maxime Gonalons (51´)
Miroslav Stevanovic (7.5) - Wissam Ben Yedder (7.3)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Bisevac, Umtiti, Dabo; Gonalons, Malbranque (80´); Stevanovic, Grenier (90´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose, Koné, Tolisso, Ferri (80´), Ödegaard (90´), Yattara.
Alexandre Lacazette (12´), Samuel Umtiti (85´), Miroslav Stevanovic (88´) - Adamo Coulibaly (10´, 51´), Démé N´Diaye (90+3´)
Maxime Gonalons (13´), Mouhamadou Dabo (52´) - Pablo Chavarria (37´), Adamo Coulibaly (69´), Loick Landre (90´)
Samuel Umtiti (7.3) - Adamo Coulibaly (8.7)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Rose, Umtiti, Dabo; Gonalons (89´), Malbranque (89´); Stevanovic, Grenier (40´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Tolisso (89´), Ferri (89´), Mvuemba, Ödegaard (40´), Ghezzal.
Alexandre Lacazette (33´, 79´), Steed Malbranque (61´), Gaël Danic (65´)
Steed Malbranque (51´), Samuel Umtiti (69´) - Bruno Urribarri (63´)
Mouhamadou Dabo (8.6) - Florent Malouda (7.0)
Clement Grenier (Sprained ankle, 4-5 weeks)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Rose, Koné, Dabo; Gonalons, Malbranque (76´); Stevanovic (45´), Ödegaard (84´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Moutoussamy, Tolisso (76´), Mvuemba, Ferri (45´), Labidi (84´), Yattara.
Alexandre Lacazette (53´) - Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (5´)
Christophe Jallet (19´)
Mouhamadou Dabo (7.6) - Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (8.4)
Miroslav Stevanovic (Damaged elbow, 9-11 days)

Lineup: Valdés; Tolisso, Bisevac, Koné, Rose (77´); Moutoussamy, Malbranque; Stevanovic (77´), Ödegaard, Ghezzal; Yattara (77´).
Subs: Lopes, Dabo (77´), Mvuemba, Danic (77´), Lacazette (77´)
Alexandre Lacazette (84´)
Samuel Moutoussamy (51´) - Kevin Lefaix (27´), Mickaël Cerilelo (44´)
Victor Valdés (8.5) - Julien Ielsh (7.3)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Bisevac (56´), Koné, Umtiti; Gonalons, Malbranque (76´); Stevanovic, Grenier (76´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose (56´), Tolisso (76´), Ferri, Ödegaard (76´)
Alexandre Lacazette (45´), Miroslav Stevanovic (99´) - Imad Falatt (83´)
Bakary Koné (102´) - Florent Mollet (45´), Cedric Varault (119´), Samuel Souprayen (120´)
Alexandre Lacazette (8.7) - Abdoulaye Bamba (8.1)
Milan Bisevac (Pulled hamstring, 2 weeks)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Bisevac, Koné, Umtiti; Tolisso, Malbranque (77´); Stevanovic, Grenier (77´), Danic (81´); Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose, Dabo, Mvuemba (77´), Ödegaard (77´), Bahlouli (81´), Yattara.
Gaël Danic (17´)
Clement Grenier (44´), Steed Malbranque (74´) - Alaixys Romao (35´), Mario Lemina (57´)
Bakary Koné (7.4) - Alaixys Romao (7.1)

After a good month Lyon are on top of the league! Lyon has showed great form in the league, but it will be tough. PSG is just one point behind and they have a very strong team. But if Lyon continue their great form, nothing is impossible.

Lyon can look forward to two interesting matches against the italian side Torino in the first knock out round of Europa League. It will be two good matches. The experience the players get by playing this kind of matches is very important for the future.

After the wins against Red Star and Dijon, Lyon will now play against Toulouse in the 11th round of Coupe de France. Lyon beat Toulouse in the league the 10th of January. Hopefully they´ll do it again.

After the great win against Marseille in the quarter final Lyon will now face Toulouse in the semi finals. That means that Lyon will face Toulouse in both Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue next month.

Player of the Month award goes to Alexandre Lacazette. Who else? He had another great month, playing all nine games and scoring nine goals with an average rating of 7.4. Alexandre is a great player and it´s just a question of time before bigger clubs will be interested of him.

"Another great month for the team and a nice way to start of the new year. I´m very pleased with the fact the we´re in first place in Ligue 1. I´m very happy for the team. But it´ll be tough. PSG is a great team aswell and they can buy in principle any player they want. But we´ll do our best to keep our league position. I´m also pleased that we´ve reached the next rounds of Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France. Next month will be very important for us, with many important games. I hope that we can continue our great form and play good football!"

February will be an interesting moth for Lyon with the semi final in Coupe de la Ligue and the first knock out round in Europa League to look forward to. Also they will play three matches in Ligue 1 and the 11th round of Coupe de France against Toulouse

Tearing it up mate! Nice updates too, just gotta hope you can widen the gap between you and PSG now!

The next game will be one of the most important ones, for the Season! Great month, keep that up!

AaronHJFT96: Thanks! Yeah it will be tough but if we can continue our form nothing is possible!
TaroMisaki: If we play good and grab some wins we´ll have a good possibility to win a trophy, maybe the league or maybe some of the cups. Thanks mate!

January is over, and so the transfer window. There has been some big deals, like Gündogan to Manchester United, Phil Jones to Tottenham and Mario Fernandes to PSG. In this article we will sun up the transfer window by listing the biggest and the most important transfers. Here´s the list:

"PSG continue their big spending. The 24-year old right back Mario Fernandes joins the club from the russian side CSKA Moscow. Fernandes is a quality player who will strengthen the defense. With Fernandes and Van der Wiel PSG has two quality right backs."

"The left back Ghoulam has been very impressive at Napoli since signing from the french side Saint Etienne and now he moves to the english giant Manchester United. He´s a good player, but it´ll be tough for him to take a place in the team before the wonder kid Luke Shaw."

"This is a quality signing for Manchester United. Gündogan has had problems with injuries but he´s still a top class player and for the price of €14m it´s a great signing. He´ll improve the United midfield a lot."

A very good signing. Lucas Romero is a great talent with big potential. In Monaco he will play a lot of matches and improve. He´ll surely move to a bigger club in the future."

"Very nice signing from Lyon. Ödegaard is one of Europe's biggest talent and almost all the biggest clubs in Europe was interested of him, like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern München. The transfer is probably good for Ödegaard. He´ll have a bigger chance to play in Lyon and that will be good for his development."

"This is maybe the most interesting deal of the whole transfer window. What made United exchange Phil Jones for Vlad Chiriches. Jones is a great player and he´ll continue to develop in the future while Chiriches has been benched in Tottenham. This seems to be a great deal for Tottenham.

In February Lyon will play a total of seven games. Against PSG, Lorient and Nantes in Ligue 1, against Torino twice in Europa League and against Toulouse in Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France. In this month they have the chance to keep a good position in the league, qualify for the second knock out round in Europa League and qualify for the next rounds in Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France. Now let´s see how it went out.

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Koné, Umtiti, Dabo; Fofana, Malbranque; Boudebouz (68´), Ödegaard (68´), Danic (68´); Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose, Moutoussamy, Ferri, Fekir (68´), Labidi (68´), Yattara (68´).

1´ Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG)
84´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
85´ Blaise Matuidi (PSG)

Mouhamadou Dabo (Lyon) & Ezequiel Lavezzi (PSG)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Bisevac, Umtiti, Bedimo; Gonalons, Ferri (85´); Stevanovic (85´), Fekir (53´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Koné, Dabo, Malbranque (85´), Ödegaard (53´), Boudebouz (85´), Yattara.

29´ Alain Traoré (Lorient)
83´ Miroslav Stevanovic (Lyon)
85´ Miroslav Stevanovic (Lyon)

Miroslav Stevanovic (Lyon) & Alain Traoré (Lorient)

Lineup: Valdés; Tolisso, Koné, Umtiti, Dabo; Gonalons, Malbranque (76´); Stevanovic (76´), Ödegaard, Danic (76´); Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Bisevac, Rose, Ferri (76´), Fofana, Boudebouz (76´), Yattara (76´).

76´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
79´ Mohamed Yattara (Lyon)
86´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)

Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) & Ronny Rodelin (Nantes)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Koné, Umtiti, Bedimo; Gonalons (78´), Malbranque (90´); Stevanovic, Boudebouz (78´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Bisevac, Dabo, Ferri (78´), Fofana (90´), Ödegaard (78´), Yattara.

89´ Amauri (Torino)
90+3´ Jordan Ferri (Lyon)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Koné, Umtiti, Bedimo; Gonalons (88´), Malbranque (78´); Boudebouz, Ödegaard (78´), Stevanovic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Bisevac, Dabo, Tolisso (88´), Ferri (78´), Grenier (78´), Yattara.

58´ Ryad Boudebouz (Lyon)

Bakary Koné (Lyon) & Matteo Darmian (Torino)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Koné, Umtiti, Dabo; Gonalons (76´), Malbranque (85´); Ferri, Ödegaard (76´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Rose, Moutoussamy, Tolisso (76´), Fofana (85´), Labidi (76´), Yattara.

42´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
70´ William Matheus (Toulouse)

Christophe Jallet (Lyon) & Marcel Tisserand (Toulouse)

Lineup: Valdés; Jallet, Bisevac, Umtiti, Dabo; Gonalons, Malbranque (80´); Boudebouz, Ödegaard (80´), Danic; Lacazette.
Subs: Lopes, Koné, Bedimo, Ferri (80´), Fekir (80´)

38´ Wissam Ben Yedder (Toulouse)

Gaël Danic (Lyon) & Wissam Ben Yedder (Toulouse)

After a draw against PSG and the wins against Lorient and Nantes Lyon is still on top of the league with three points better then PSG. It will still be tough to keep the position. But with Lyons current form, nothing seems to be impossible.

Lyon qualified for the second knock out round after a draw and a win against the italian side Torino. Lyon will now face the spanish side Sevilla in the second knock out round. Sevilla has some really good players like Carlos Bacca and Ever Banega. It will definitely be two interesting matches.

Lyon has reached the final of Coupe de la Ligue! They won the semi final against Toulouse with 1-0. Lyon will now face Saint Etienne in the final. The game will be played the 11th of April.

Wait, what? Not Lacazette? No. Lacazette has been really good this month (as usual). But Christophe has put in some great performeances at his right back spot this month. He has been really good the whole season and I think that he deserves the award.

"It has been another good month for us. I´m very happy about the results in Ligue 1 and that we´re still on top of the table despite the tough game against PSG. I´m also happy that we´ve reached the next round in Europa League and the final of Coupe de la Ligue. The only disappointment of the month was the loss against Toulouse in Coupe de France. But in total I´m really happy. Now on to the next month!"

In March Lyon will play six games. Four games in Ligue 1 against Lille, Montpellier, Marseille and Nice. As you can see there a some tough games. Aswell Lyon will play the second knock out round of Europa League against Sevilla.

Very impressive performance from your Lyon side so far, the fact that you are leading the Ligue 1 right now is particularly impressive and definately shows teams like PSG that football isn't all about the money. Further getting into the league final is very good and with your current form I totally expect you to win it so don't let me down The tie against Sevilla is going to be tough though as they are a very good team still nothing seems to be impossible for you right now.

TheOtherSpecialOne: Thanks mate! I´m very happy with the team this far and I hope that we can end the season with trophies!

Lyon will play a total of six games in March. Four games in Ligue 1, against Lille, Montpellier, Marseille and Nice and the games in the second knock out round of the Europa League against the spanish side Sevilla. Lyon will hope to contain their league position and qualify for the next round in Europa League this month, now let´s see how it went out.


10´ Nolan Roux (Lille)

Béria & Meité (Lille) & Tolisso, Bedimo & Bisevac (Lyon)
Djibril Sidibé (Lille) & Bakary Koné (Lyon)


13´ Ryad Boudebouz (Lyon)
31´ Maxime Gonalons (Lyon)
80´ Paul Lasne (Montpellier)


Bedimo & Koné (Lyon) & Jebbour, Marveaux & Sanson (Montpellier)
Ryad Boudebouz (Lyon) & Dylan Gissi (Montpellier)


26´ Clément Grenier (Lyon)
43´ Gianelli Imbula (Marseille)
70´ Miroslav Stevanovic (Lyon)
79´ André Pierre Gignac (Marseille)
79´ André Pierre Gignac (Marseille)

Fanni (Marseille) & Jallet, Danic, Grénier & Dabo (Lyon)
Gianelli Imbula (Marseille) & Miroslav Stevanovic (Lyon)


26´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
79´ Bakary Koné (Lyon)

Jallet & Koné (Lyon) & Gomis & Palun (Nice)
Bakary Koné (Lyon) & Valentin Eysseric (Nice)
Henri Bedimo (Fractured cheekbone, 2 weeks


56´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
70´ Clement Grenier (Lyon)


Gonalons (Lyon) & Iborra (Sevilla)
Clement Grenier (Lyon) & Coke (Sevilla)


2´ Clement Grenier (Lyon)

Carrico, Tremoulinas & Iborra (Sevilla)
Coke (Sevilla) & Ryad Boudebouz (Lyon)

It has been a month with up and downs in Ligue 1 for Lyon (Two wins, one draw and one loss). But although Lyon is still on top of the table. PSG has really been a mess in the last matches, only winning one of their five last games in the league and now it looks like Lyon has a good chance to bring home the title.

After two impressive wins against the spanish side Sevilla, Lyon has now qualified for the quarter final of the Europa League were they will face a tough challenge. The english side Tottenham Hotspurs has had a very nice season in the Europa League this far, beating both Arsenal and PSG. Now they will be a tough challenge for Lyon in the quarter final.

After the win in February against Toulouse in the semi final, Lyon has reached the final of Coupe de la Ligue were they will face Saint Etienne. The game will be played at Stade de France at the 11th of April.

The award for the best player in March goes to the defensive midfielder Maxime Gonalons. Maxime has had a very good month. He has impressed in both Ligue 1 and Europa League. Maxime is the leader of the team and he has really deserved the award.

Overall I´m pleased with the month. We made two great games in the Europa League against Sevilla. Sevilla is a strong side and I´m very glad the we could beat them. In the league the results has been pretty good aswell. Two good wins against Montpellier and Nice. But I think that we should´ve won at least one of the games against Lille (0-1) and Marseille (2-2). But of course I´m really happy that we´re still on top of the league."

Lyon will play six matches in next month, April. Three games in Ligue 1, against Guingamp, Saint Etienne and Stade de Reims, two games in the quarter final of Europa League against Tottenham and the final of Coupe de la Ligue against Saint Etienne.

Olympique Lyonnais are today delighted to be able to announce that Lyon manager Thierry Henry has signed a new contract that will keep him at the club until the summer of 2018.

Thierry has been in charge at Lyon since the summer of 2014 when he retired from football. This far he has managed Lyon in a total of 50 matches, winning 36 which give him a winning rate at 72%. Lyon is currently on top of the Ligue 1 table and they have also qualified for the quarter final in Europa League and for the final in Coupe de la Ligue.

Henry left the following comment to our official website: "I´m very happy to have signed the extension of my contract. I want to stay at the club and continue to develop the team and the club. We´re currently in a very exciting period and I think that the future of the club is very bright. The club has shown faith in me since my arrival and I´m very grateful to be able to continue my work with the club."

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Lyon will play a total of six games in April. Three games in Ligue 1, against Guingamp, Saint Etienne and Stade de Reims and two games in the quarter final of Europa League against the english side Tottenham and the final of Coupe de la Ligue against Saint Etienne. It will be an exciting month for Lyon, were they can qualify for the semi final of Europa League contain their first place in Ligue 1 and bring home their first trophy of the season. Now let´s see how it went out.



30´ Mamadou Samassa OG (Lyon)
45´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)

Lemaitre, Diallo (Guingamp) & Jallet, Umtiti, Malbranque (Lyon)
Moustapha Diallo (Guingamp) & Christophe Jallet (Lyon)



26´ Clement Grenier (Lyon)
42´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
85´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
88´ Romain Hamouna (Saint Etienne)

Teophile-Catherine, Cohade, Brison (Saint Etienne)
Ryad Boudebouz (Lyon) & Romain Hamouna (Saint Etienne)
Maxime Gonalons (Bruised head, 4-5 days)



21´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
50´ Valentin Roberge (Stade de Reims)

Oniangue, Mavinga, Mandi (Stade de Reims) & Gonalons, Koné (Lyon)
Valentin Roberge (Stade de Reims) & Samuel Umtiti (Lyon)



59´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
90´ Ryad Boudebouz (Lyon)

Bisevac (Lyon)
Ryad Boudebouz (Lyon) & Kyle Walker (Tottenham)



4´ Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon)
16´ Roberto Soldado (Tottenham)
47´ Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham)

Adebayor, Kaboul, Walker, Soldado (Tottenham) & Bedimo (Lyon)
Younes Kaboul (Tottenham) & Steed Malbranque (Lyon)
Miroslav Stevanovic (Strained knee ligaments, 5-6 weeks)



87´ Gaël Danic (Lyon)

Gonalons, Dabo (Lyon) & Cohade (Saint Etienne)
Gaël Danic (Lyon) & Franck Tabanou (Saint Etienne)
Maxime Gonalons (Bruised head, 4-5 days)

Lyon is still on top of Ligue 1 with one game in hand. They had a pretty good month, two wins (Guingamp, Saint Etienne) and one draw (Stade de Reims). It´s just five games left to play for Lyon. The league title is coming closer and closer.

After the very impressive 2-0 win against Tottenham at home, Lyon lost with 1-2 at White Hart Lane but it was still enough to qualify for the semi finals. Lyon will face the german side Leverkusen. Lyon has done great in Europe League this season and now they´re just two games from a potential final.

The award for the best player of the month goes to Alexandre Lacazette. He has had a great month, scoring five goals in six games. He has scored a total of 45 goals this far. That´s incredible. Alex has (as always) worked really hard this month and he deserves the award for sure.

"I´m very happy with the month. We managed to win two games in Ligue 1 and I´m a little dissappointed that we did´nt managed to win the third game against Stade de Reims. I´m very proud that we knocked out Tottenham in the Europa League. Now we´ll face a tough opponent, Leverkusen in the semi final. Also we could bring home our first trophy with me as manager after a tight game against Saint Etienne. Overall I´m very pleased with the month. Now we have to make sure that we finish the season in a great way in May".

Lyon will play seven games (potential eight with the Europa League final) in the last month of the season, May. Five games in Ligue 1 against Evian, Caen, Bordeaux, Bastia and Stade Rennais and two games in the semi final in Europa League against Leverkusen. And if they qualify for the final it will be played at the 27th of May.