Lyon consolidated their lead at the top of the French Division 1 Féminine with a crushing 4-0 victory over Guingamp in front of around 750 fans in Décines. It was their sixth straight win in their opening six matches of the season and their fifth clean sheet. Amandine Henry set them on the way with […]
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Strasbourg v Lyon Preview
Lyon travel to Strasbourg on Sunday in desperate need of a win in order to kick-start their season, having taken only seven points from their opening six Ligue 1 fixtures. They are winless since the opening day rout of Dijon. Strasbourg could be ideal opponents in that respect, as they are in even worse form, […]
International break round-up October 2020: Lyon players
Plenty of Olympique Lyonnais stars were in action around the world during the October 2020 international break. Here’s a round-up of how they got on. Sinaly Diomande and Maxwel Cornet The big news was that Sinaly Diomande made his international debut for the Ivory Coast. It was his first call up to the squad and […]
Lyon Transfer Window Review: Summer 2020
Olympique Lyonnais had one of their most active transfer windows for years in the summer of 2020 and now that it has closed we can begin to assess how successful it was. The transfer window unfolded against a backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, which delayed the start of the season and led to the window […]
Bruno Guimarães
Bruno Guimarães, who joined Lyon in the January 2020 transfer window from Athletico Paranaense, is one of the most promising Brazilian midfielders of his generation. It cost Lyon just over €22 million to capture the signature of the twenty-two year old, and it’s already beginning to look like a bargain. Bruno Guimarães Rodriguez Moura, to […]
Jean Lucas
Olympique Lyonnais paid €8 million to bring Brazilian midfielder Jean Lucas to France in 2019, negotiating the deal either side of his twenty-first birthday. He left his homeland as one of the hottest prospects in his generation, but had an underwhelming first season in Lyon. He was originally signed for Lyon by erstwhile manager Sylvinho, […]
Sinaly Diomandé
When Sinaly Diomandé was signed by Olympique Lyonnais for around half a million Euros from Guidars FC in the Ivory Coast in September 2019 it was with a view to the future. The then eighteen year old defender initially went into the reserve team squad playing in the National 2 division in order to gain […]
Melvin Bard
Melvin Bard is a left-back who graduated from the Lyon academy to make his first team debut in December 2019 aged nineteen, coming on as a half-time replacement for Rafael in a 4-0 win at Nîmes. It was to be his only appearance that season, as he spent most of the campaign with the reserves […]
Rayan Cherki
Rayan Cherki is one of the most highly rated prospects ever to emerge from the Olympique Lyonnais academy. An attacking midfielder, he has been at the club since the age of seven and made his first team debut in October 2019 aged just sixteen. He has broken many age related records along the way, including […]
Maxwel Cornet
Gnaly Maxwel Cornet emerged as a striker from the youth ranks at FC Metz and it was in this capacity that Olympique Lyonnais signed him in January 2015, but it wasn’t until his conversion to a wing-back role under coach Rudi Garcia in 2020 that he finally found his place at the club. Prior to […]