Barça’s attention is serious: its biggest rival in the fight for the Champions League, Olympique de Lyon, the current champion and leading contender to revalidate the trophy, their path to the title is complicated after falling to the lowest in the first leg of the quarterfinals final against Chelsea 0-1. A sad goal from Teacher Reiten After half an hour, he sentenced a match dominated by the French but not resolved. The return next Thursday, March 30 (9:00 pm, Dazn) at the Stamford Bridge stadium in London will pass the sentence.
Lyon started the match better, and le sommer he had a good chance at 9′, but his chipped shot before Berger left was nowhere between the three sticks. The French forward tried again moments later, but his volley from the side didn’t faze the Chelsea goalkeeper.
The English team held on, and on 28′ they took the lead with a great goal from Reiten. cutbert Removed his pair with a magnificent pipe three quarters of the field, and put a through pass on repeat, who didn’t think twice and put the ball in the net with a wonderful first-time shot. Five minutes later, James sent the ball over the post with a great left foot. At 0-1, half time was reached at the OL Stadium-Décines.
As in the first half, Lyon also came out better in the second, and in the 60′ Cascarino was about to punish a serious mistake by Chelsea on the ball’s exit, but the Frenchwoman’s shot hit the post. But the English side, who have kept a clean sheet in six of the seven matches played this season in the competition, went ahead and will go to London with a vital advantage.
In the end, Lyon did not achieve victory and despite their 14 shots and extensive control of the ball, it was impossible to beat Chelsea and discount, so they fell 1-0 in the first leg of the quarterfinals.
Lineups
Lyons: Endler; Carpenter, Gilles, Renard, Morroni (Bacha, 55′); Horan, Egurrola, Marozsán (Van de Donk, 55′); Cascarino (Malard, 69′), Le Sommer (Becho, 46′), Däbritz (Majri, 69′)
Chelsea: Berger; Périsset (Mjelde, 85′), Buchanan, Bright (Eriksson, 44′), Carter; Leupolz, Groin; James (Kaneryd, 85′), Cuthbert, Reiten; Kerr
Source: La Verdad
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