From Lewandowski and Gnabry to Sammaritano very quickly for Maxence Caqueret and the Lyonnais. - Franck Fife / AP / SIPA

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8 p.m .:  OL's incredible journey has had consequences for the new French teams' lists revealed yesterday. The left side Melvin Bard and the revelation in the middle Maxence Caqueret thus make their appearance in the hopeful group. In the A, Houssem Aouar, sparkling in Lisbon, welcomed his first call with "a lot of pride". Problem: according to L'Equipe , he will not be able to honor these first international meetings, nor even OL-Dijon this Friday because he has just been tested positive for Covid-19. On this big blow for the Lyonnais, we meet again from 8:45 pm at the stadium (I will not have the excuse of the famous Lyon traffic jams given the context).

8 p.m .:  Good evening every 20 minutes. Here's a bit of reading to keep you going until kick-off. Our eminent colleague William, who covered the Final 8 for 20 Minutes , planned on this new upcoming season for OL, on the evening of the elimination against Bayern in the half (0-3). We let you discover it all.

Without Europe and with departures, what will the future look like for Lyon? https://t.co/m83HXEvxUd

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Lyon supporters will seriously have to wet their necks this Friday (9 p.m.), when they dive into a new Ligue 1 season. Never for OL has the summer break been so short, with nine days between half of the Champions League against Bayern Munich (0-3) and this match against Dijon. A Lyon follower would never have imagined seeing Maxwel Cornet sink Pep Guardiola's Manchester City in a European quarter-final. This enchanted parenthesis, stuck between a mediocre (and shortened) year in the league (7th), and another without European adrenaline therefore, and with leaders no doubt brought to leave (Aouar, Dembélé, Depay), is history. Ancient. We will therefore deliver you this evening in an OL Park with a crazy atmosphere (5,000 spectators maximum, and yeah, we will have to learn how to get used to it) the return to the ordinary in front of the DFCO. In the camp opposite, those nostalgic for Greater Lyon in the 2000s will find Grégory Coupet, Peguy Luyindula and David Linarès, now goalkeeper coach, sports director and assistant coach in Burgundy. The most optimistic / dreamers will be able to say that a crazy season to (finally) compete with PSG in L1, thanks to a super rich workforce for a year without European competition, is not missing under any circumstances this Friday.

"To vibrate with us in front of this OL-Dijon recovery for the Lyonnais, meet here at 8:45 pm, with a kick-off at 9 pm ...

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