UEFA Champions League
This year: Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse
“Le point sur” Lyon and Marseille’s Chances in the Champions League
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After the results were final in Matchday 5, Lyon knew their hopes of going through to the knockout stages of the Champions League, which they had so poorly started, rested on their shoulders and theirs alone.
In all fairness, the same can’t be said for Marseille, who kicked off their campaign with a bang, beating Besiktas [...]
Category: European competition, France Ligue 1, Lyon (OL), Marseille (OM), UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup
Tags: Barcelona, European competition, France Ligue 1, Knockout stage, Liverpool, Lyon (OL), Marseille (OM), Porto, Table, UEFA Champions League, UEFA CupEuropean Round-Up: Lyon Awakens, Marseille Rides Luck, UEFA Cupsters Kick Off
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Here’s an interesting role-change: Usually French clubs are lacking a bit of everything in the Champions League, and solid in the UEFA Cup. This week’s European fiesta had that changed around, with Lyon and Marseille winning and drawing respectively, and the UEFA Cup contenders gathering a win to go with two losses.
The big story was [...]
Misson Somewhat Accomplished for UEFA Cupsters
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With one quarter of the Ligue 1 clubs competing in the first round of the UEFA Cup, whose second leg was disputed this week, you knew not all of them would go through, especially since it wasn’t by any means the top of the crop repping the ligue. Well, out of the five, three went [...]
Lyon (x) = Good, Marseille (y) = Bad. If League = Champions, Reverse Function
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And the mystery continues. Lyon sucks in the Champions League, but are top in the Ligue. Marseille are outside the relegation zone on goal differential at home, but manage to beat the finalists of the most prestigious club comptetion in the world, at their stadium. Any theories?
Marseille were 7-1 to lose the match at Anfield, [...]
The Daily-Or-So News Dispatch (07.09.30)
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+ This weekend we had the chance to catch up on late matches from Week 3, and the first one was Lyon-Lens at Gerland. Lyon could go top if they took it by three goals. They did. A smart goal by Fabio Santos (I know! Isn’t that weird?), and two spectacular ones from Kimmy Kallström [...]
Category: Caen (SMC), France Ligue 1, Lens (RCL), Lyon (OL), Marseille (OM), Nancy (ASNL), Paris (PSG), Team News, Toulouse (TFC), UEFA Champions League Tags: Caen (SMC), Champions League, France Ligue 1, Jean-Claude Darcheville, Jerome Rothen, Karim Benzema, Lens (RCL), Lyon (OL), Marseille (OM), Nancy (ASNL), Paris (PSG), Rangers, Team News, Toulouse (TFC), UEFA Champions League, Youssouf HadjiReprésente ta ligue: The Lyon Sleeps Tonight
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Yes, I insist on using that headline every time, what of it? You’ve probably heard: Olympique Lyonnais were destroyed by Barcelona, Lionel Messi in particular, in Matchday 1 of the UEFA Champions League. Total humiliation, as some would have it.
Lyon are now on the bottom of Group E, after being thoroughly dominated by the Catalonians [...]
Représente ta ligue: Forget the League, OM’s Gunning for the European Championship
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Eight matches in Ligue 1 and only one win to show for it? Pish posh. They can lose against Valenciennes and Nice, but their ain’t no way Marseille were going to lose against a club whose name has two “S cédilles” (French grammar joke there). It took them a while, but the Marseillais got their [...]
Représente ta ligue: Toulouse sees Red, Marseille to see Red, Lyon to Dance with Death, Lens Pwn in UEFA Cup
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Okay, first off, 4-0? Ouch. That’s embarassing. I’ll let Brian at the Liverpool Offside tell you more about it here.
Now! The draw for the Champions League group stage was held today, and there’s much to say about where our two favourite competitors Lyon and Marseille have been thrown.
Marseille have a tough but manageable group with [...]
Représente ta ligue: Toulouse can’t Figure out Reds
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They knew it was going to be hard, they knew counters would be scarce and that making anything out of them would be hard, and they knew a single moment of fault could bring about disaster. And, they were right as rain! In Toulouse’s much-anticipated Champions League debut against none other than the five-time champs [...]
Toulouse Draw Liverpool
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Well, isn’t that just super? Toulouse, psyched as hell since earning their spot for the third round of UEFA Champions League qualifying, just got one hell of a figurative punch in the gut. Or in the liver, rather. Of all the sixteen sides possible, it’s going to be last season’s runner-up, Liverpool, who will stand [...]
Category: European competition, France Ligue 1, Lens (RCL), Team News, Toulouse (TFC), UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Tags: Anfield, Draw, European competition, France Ligue 1, Lens (RCL), Liverpool, Switzerland, Team News, Toulouse (TFC), UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Young Boys Berne
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