Ligue 1: Lyon confident before returning to Manchester

Ligue 1: Lyon confident before returning to Manchester
Olympique Lyonnais has been given reason to hope thanks to its 1-0 victory over Lille, Saturday at the Stade de France, the first step in a week capital.

Two other deadlines are approaching the return match of the eighth final of the Champions League in Manchester and the encounter with Bordeaux in Ligue 1. François Clerc reduced appreciates the success of "displacement" in the north ... Paris, due to anniversary of the Stade de France.

"It is a great victory, even if it has been difficult. It's good for the confidence, because it takes no purpose," said the defender author of the decisive pass to Fred.

"It showed the strength and solidarity. At Le Mans, just before the match to go we lost (1-0) because we were scattered. Here, we have nothing dropped. We found the condition d 'spirit that we had when we were champions. "

The president Jean-Michel Aulas enthuses success of this vitamin-at the Stade de France.

"Winning commissioned to three days of travel in Manchester, it is really very hard. Should meet present but also s'économiser, not to get hurt," he says.

"It was a triple victory over ourselves on the events, because there was no injuries regrettable, and arithmetically because there are six points ahead of Bordeaux."

CRIS CANDIDATE

All the lights are green Lyon at the right time. "I found my team well in the game, the team showed that she had a fairly good state of mind," says the coach Alain Perrin.

"Nobody is dropped into the facility. Retraction I liked replacements, their conviction, their implementation. The result is good," concludes Alain Perrin. Pressing And we have suffered at the end of the match was good preparation for the rest. "

For moving to Manchester where it will reverse a downturn after the tie (1-1) conceded to go, the coach Lyons has some concerns but they are "rich concerns."

With the return in the form of Fred, the only scorer in the last two victories (doubled face Metz and face but Lille), the grace of Hatem Ben Arfa and sooner than expected, Cris, he will have to weigh training its starting eleven.

Cree, operated knee ligaments on Aug. 11, 2007, clearly assumes a tenure against Manchester while Jean-Alain Boumsong holding the rope.

"I am ready but it is not me who decides," he says. "I think the players chosen Saturday against Lille will return to the field Tuesday. I want to play, it will be an important match, but it is the coach who decides."

"If it had gone through, Cris did not play Tuesday, but he made a good match," says Alain Perrin. "Even if this return may create some anxieties, it is important to know that we have a central defender more."