Highlight Video UEFA Champions League (UCL) : Olympique Lyon vs Benfica

Paris – Olympique Lyon still powerful after defeating Benfica 2-0. The victory was made Lyon Unbeaten and still firmly on top of Group B.

In the match held at Stade de Gerland, Lyon managed to satisfy his supporters. Jimmy Briand and Lisandro Lopez scored one goal each for the victory of Lyon.

That means that Lyon have completed three matches with a victory. These results make Lyon still lead in Group B standings with collecting nine points.

Composition Players

Olympique Lyon: 1-Hugo Lloris; 13-Anthony Reveillere, 3-Cris, 4-Pape Diakhate, 20-Aly Cissokho; 29-Yoann Gourcuff, 21-Maxime Gonalons, 8-Miralem Pjanic; 7-Jimmy Briand, 9-Lisandro Lopez, 11-Michel Bastos.

Benfica: 12-Roberto; 14-Maxi Pereira, 4-Luisao, 23-David Luiz, 18-Fabio Coentrao; 20-Nicolas Gaitan, 6-Javi Garcia, 17-Carlos Martins, 30-Javier Saviola, 10-Pablo Aimar, 31-Alan Kardec

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Highlight Video UEFA Champions League (UCL) : Hapoel Tel Aviv vs Lyon

Aviv – Olympique Lyon won both matches in the Champions League Group B. Faced with Hapoel Tel Aviv, Lyon maintain perfection with excellence 3-1.

Lyon two goals in the match held at Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv, hired by Michel Bastos and one additional donated by Miralem Pjanic. Meanwhile, Hapoel reply printed Vincent Enyeama.

This victory led Lyon to master the top of Group B with a value of 6 from two games. Previously, Les Gones overcome Schalke 04 with a score of 1-0 on Matchday 1.

The composition of players
Hapoel: Enyeama; Bondar, Nunes, Badir, Ben Dayan; Rocchi (Shivhon 60), Yadin, Zehavi (Abutbul 59), Vermouth, Shechter, Sahar (Tamuz 76)

Lyon: Lloris; Reveillere, Lovren, Diakhate, Cissokho; Toulalan, Gourcuff (Pjanic 77), Kallstrom; Bastos (Gonalons 89), Gomis (Pied 63), Briand

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Highlight Video : the complete results of UEFA Champions League (UCL) group phase match day 1

Here is the complete results of Champions League group phase match day 1.

Group A
FC Twente 2-2 Inter Milan
Twente: Theo Janssen 19, Diego Milito 30 (own goal)
Inter: Wesley Sneijder 13, Samuel Eto’o 41

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Werder Bremen 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur
Bremen: Hugo Almeida 43, 47 Marko Marin
Tottenham: Petri Pasanen 12 (Own goal), Peter Crouch 18

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Group B
Benfica 2-0 Hapoel Tel Aviv
Benfica: Luisao 20, Oscar Cardozo 68

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DRAWING GROUP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2010-2011

Two of the most successful team in the history of the Champions League, Real Madrid and AC Milan, was one group in the main round of this season. The result of drawing in Monaco last night put the two European giants in the group G. This group can say to hell for two other contestants nor the team lightly. That is, Ajax Amsterdam and AJ Auxerre.

The rivals AC Milan and Inter Milan, also in the severe group. The defending champions had to against Werder Bremen, Tottenham Hotspur, and FC Twente.

Besides the competition between Europe’s top clubs who have subscribed to appear in the main phase of the Champions League debutant pace of interest to be observed. This season there are six new faces. Namely, Tottenham, Sporting Braga (Portugal), Hapoel Tel-Aviv (Israel), FC Twente (Netherlands), Bursaspor (Turkey), and MSK Zilina (Slovakia).

Of the six debutants, only Tottenham and Braga are not the country’s status in the league champions. But Tottenham made London recorded the passage of history with the record of Athens as a town with three representatives as well as on the main stage at the same season. London was represented by Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal. The same is carved through the 2003-2004 season Athens Olympiakos, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens.

From the sixth debutant, a name that is less familiar to the public is MSK Zilina and Bursaspor. Zilina listed as the third country of origin that penetrate the Slovak main round after MFK Kosice and FC Petrzalka.

Meanwhile, the passage of Bursaspor give new color for representing Turkey in the Champions League after all this time been dominated by Galatasaray, Besiktas and Fenerbahce. Based on the UEFA coefficient rankings as of August 25, 2010, Bursaspor is the lowest-ranked contestants main stage (ranked 132).

Last season, the seven debutantes in the main rounds, five of them the status of the caretaker in each group. Interesting how the football lunge awaited six debutants this season.

The main round first leg Champions League will commence 14 September later. Only the two best teams in each group qualifying for the round of 16 eligible major. Well, in this knockout round, no limit games. It means that a team from one country can meet each other. This season the Champions League final will be held in the Wembley Stadium, London, on May 28, 2011.

DRAWING CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2010-2011
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El Real Need Winning For Surviving and History

Victory over Lyon just could not get Real Madrid to the Champions League quarterfinals round, but also improve their history can never subdue the French team.

The following statistical data and some other information related to the game the two teams in the last 16 second leg of the Champions League in Santiago Bernabeu, as abstracted Reuters:

Real Madrid vs Olympique Lyon

Record head-to-head
Meet: 5 times
Results: Lyon wins three times, series two times

Previous meetings:
Group stage 13 September 2005, Lyon 3 Real Madrid 0
Group stage 23 November 2005, Real Madrid 1 Lyon 1
Group stage 13 September 2006, Lyon 2 Real Madrid 0
Group stage 21 November 2006, Real Madrid 2 Lyon 2
Round of 16, February 16, 2010, Lyon 1 Real Madrid 0

Appearances in round eight of:
Champions League: Real Madrid 8 times, Lyon 3 times
European Cup: Real Madrid 27 times, Lyon 3 times
All European competitions: Real Madrid 36 times, Lyon 6

Top skorer
Real Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo (6 goals)
Lyon: Miralem Pjanic (3 goals)

* Real Madrid, who never beat Lyon in five meetings, this time must win to qualify. But they are still overshadowed a bad report card to play on home turf in Europe. Of the last eight games they lost four times.

* Striker Raul Gonzalez is still waiting for another goal to make the collection into 67, and it will make top skorer in three major competitions in Europe. Currently he coupled with the former Bayern Munich player, Gerd Mueller.

* Lyon can win three of four last away game in Europe. But they have a bad record in Spain, where they only won one of seven games. The last two come from Barcelona in last season with three goals difference in the round of 16.

* Lyon conceded only three goals in seven games in the Champions League this season.

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