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1¹ WALTER shot wide. 2¹ WALTER dribbled away from KOLAROV and poked a weak shot past the post. 13¹ A thirty yard shot from MILNER caused the 'keeper no problem. 14¹ A drive from GOURCUFF seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to force the ball away. 15¹ TASCI beat three Chelsea players and thundered a great chance just wide. 18¹ MILNER fluffed a simple chance. 22¹ GOAL!! A mix up between BLACKETT and the 'keeper allowed WALTER to crack the ball into the empty net. (1-0 Lyon) 23¹ VALVERDE stopped a refined strike from PIZARRO. 25¹ GOAL!! An energetic GOVOU ran down the right wing and touched the ball back for WALTER to slide home. (2-0 Lyon) 27¹ BLACKETT's shot was well held by the 'keeper. 31¹ A strike from BLACKETT held little difficulty for the 'keeper. 38¹ GOAL!! Lyon were awarded a penalty after a foul on GOVOU and WALTER put it past MA-KALAMBAY. (3-0 Lyon) 10² BROWN made space on the left and touched the ball to SONG who clipped the ball wide. 15² The bemused 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from TIAGO dropped just wide. 17² A header by FORLÁN at the near post was comfortably collected by MA-KALAMBAY. 23² AQUILANI played the ball to MILNER who flicked it wide. 26² GOAL!! Chelsea's MILNER beat two defenders before firing just inside the 'keeper's righthand post. (3-1 Lyon) 32² AQUILANI cautioned for a poor challenge. 34² A lovely effort from BLACKETT scraped the outside of the post. 38² A accurate pass bobbled toward MILNER and his deadly effort raced narrowly wide. 41² A corner was collected by KOLAROV who fired an effort over. 43² A great save prevented GOVOU from scoring an exceptional goal.

Lyon   League position: 10 Home league form: LLLW Overall league form: WLOLLXWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Matthieu VALVERDE 6½ 1 7  Yves MA-KALAMBAY (c)Kolo TOURÉ 6½ 2 6  Pablo ZABALETA Juan VARGAS 6½ 3 7  Aleksandar KOLAROV Scott BROWN 7  4 7½ Alberto AQUILANI Alexandre SONG 6  5 6½ Tyler BLACKETT Serdar TASCI 6½ 6 6  TIAGO Cardoso(c) Sidney GOVOU 6½ 7 7  Charles N'ZOGBIA Yoann GOURCUFF 7  8 7  James MILNER (p)WALTER Henrique 5½ 9 7  Claudio PIZARRO(p) (f)Fayçal FAJR 6½ 10 5½ Scott SINCLAIR(f) Loïc RÉMY 6  11 6  Tom LAWRENCE Manager Samuel ETO'O    12    ARZU Tom COULTON    13    Lenny PIDGELEY JÚLIO César BAPTISTA    14    James WILSON Diego FORLÁN 7½ 15    Anthony GRANT Andreas OTTL    16

Chelsea   League position: 22 Away league form: LLLX Overall league form: WLLLXLLL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Lyon 3 Chelsea 1 (Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 29,598, Stadium: de Gerland, Referee: Carlo Dinelli 6) Walter 22¹, Walter 25¹, Walter 38¹ (pen) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Milner 26² WalteróForlán 9²         Aquilani 32² 2 2 6 6 8 2 6 6 8 12 14 18 3 4 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: Diego Forlán ¶