At the Luz de Lisboa Stadium, Benfica inflicted Lyon's first European defeat of the season (2-1) on Wednesday (October 23rd) on the third day of the group stage in the Champions League.
Led from the start of the match after the opener of Rafa Silva (4th, 1-0), the Lyonnais ran after the score all the first period. More enterprising after the break, the men of Rudi Garcia, who lived there his first European match with his new team, have logically equalized on a cross volley of Memphis Depay (70th, 1-1).
The Lopes dumpling
While they held a precious point, the Gones sank late in the game on a big mistake of their goalkeeper Anthony Lopes. The Portuguese international, from the corner of its surface, has revived in the axis of the hand. And Pizzi, faster to intervene, only had to push the ball into the empty goal (86th, 2-1).
With this defeat, Lyon, who was smiling for the moment on the European stage (a draw and a win), missed the opportunity to get a head start in the race to the 8th finals, and now points to 3rd of his group with 4 points, tied with the Zénith Saint-Petersburg, and two lengths of the leader Leipzig.
A first point for Lille
The other French club on Wednesday, Lille, snatched a draw against Valencia (1-1), but still very far from qualifying for the 8th finals.
The Dogues, led at the end of regulation time, equalized thanks to Jonathan Ikoné in the 95th. After two losses in Amsterdam (3-0) and against Chelsea (1-2), they finally unlock their points counter but remain good last in their group, behind Valencia (4 points), and Chelsea and Ajax (6 points each).
All the results of the evening
Group E
RB Salzburg - Naples 2-3
Racing Genk - Liverpool 1-4
Group F
Slavia Prague - FC Barcelona 1-2
Inter Milan - Borussia Dortmund 2-0
Group G
Benfica - Lyon 2-1
RB Leipzig - Zenith St. Petersburg 2 - 1
Group H
Lille - Valencia CF 1-1
Ajax Amsterdam - Chelsea 0 - 1
With AFP