Olympique Lyonnais Women produced a fine second half display to complete a fight-back against Dijon and secure a 4-1 win in a Friday night Division 1 clash at the Groupama OL Training Center. Perhaps tiredness from the exertions of their midweek trip to Prague and the 9-0 thumping of Slavia Prague was to blame for […]
Category: Olympique Lyonnais
Jake O’Brien – Player Profile
Born in Cork in 2001, Jake O’Brien is a centre-back who represents the Republic of Ireland national team at Under-21 level and currently plies his trade at Olympique Lyonnais in Ligue 1 in France. He is notable for being one of the first players to have his career trajectory significantly shaped by American businessman John […]
Dejan Lovren – Player Profile
Croatian centre-back Dejan Lovren is one of four players in the current Lyon squad to have recently returned to the club for a second spell. (The other three being Alexandre Lacazette, Corentin Tolisso and Rémy Riou). Lovren re-joined Lyon in January 2023 for a fee of €2 million from Zenit St Petersburg, having previously worn the […]
Saël Kumbedi – Player Profile
When Lyon signed the seventeen year old prospect Saël Kumbedi from Le Havre for €1 million in the summer of 2022, he was very much seen as one for the future. At the time, he only had 219 minutes of first team action in Ligue 2 to his name. However, the young right-back made such […]
Skelly Alvero – Player Profile
Central midfielder Skelly Alvero joined Olympique Lyonnais from Sochaux for €4 million in the summer transfer window of 2023. Aged just twenty-one, and with only one full season of first team experience in Ligue 2 behind him, Alvero jumped at the chance to step up a division and sign a five year contract with Lyon. […]
Clinton Mata – Player Profile
Olympique Lyonnais signed the thirty-year-old Angolan defender Clinton Mata from Club Brugge for €5 million in the summer of 2023. It was a first move abroad for the right-back, who had been born and raised in Belgium and had spent the entirety of his career thus far playing in the Belgian league system. Mata will […]
Mama Baldé – Player Profile
Mama Samba Baldé was born in Bissau, the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, but he moved to Portugal aged six and played his junior football in the youth teams of Sintrense, from the historic town of Sintra, not far from Lisbon. He was picked up by Sporting Clube in […]
Lyon 0-0 Le Havre
Lyon were held to a disappointing goalless draw by a spirited Le Havre team at the Groupama Stadium on Sunday evening. It was their first match since the dismissal of manager Laurent Blanc during the international break, but the change in the dugout had no immediate effect. Lyon were still lacking in creativity and cohesion. […]
Fabio Grosso to be new Lyon manager
Lyon’s former left-back Fabio Grosso is to take over from Laurent Blanc as the new manager of the club following Blanc’s sacking earlier this week. The defender, who won the World Cup with Italy in 2006, played for Lyon for two seasons between 2007 and 2009 before signing for Juventus. He wound down his playing […]
Nicolás Tagliafico – Player Profile
In December 2022, Nicolás Tagliafico became only the second Olympique Lyonnais player to win the FIFA World Cup whilst at the club, following in the footsteps of Nabil Fekir in 2018. The Argentina left-back was an integral part of his country’s World Cup winning campaign in Qatar, featuring in all but one of their matches, […]