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4¹ KLUIVERT stormed through the Lyon defence but shot straight at ALISSON. 15¹ AÏT-NOURI brought the ball away from TCHOUAMÉNI and rattled a weak shot well wide. 20¹ GOAL!! A neat one-two left BERNARDO SILVA clear and he made no mistake by instinctively flicking the ball past the oncoming Ajax 'keeper. (1-0 Lyon) 39¹ REUS ran onto a great ball from TCHOUAMÉNI but fumbled his effort wide of the goal. 41¹ A right foot effort from VLAHOVIC was tipped over by the 'keeper. 0² A penalty box meleé resulted in RÜDIGER knocking the ball over. 3² SANÉ's shot was well saved by the Ajax 'keeper. 5² An outswinging corner was nodded into the arms of the Lyon 'keeper by DOKU. 9² VAN DIJK beat three Ajax players and drove a shot inches wide. 12² GOAL!! A Ajax counter-attack allowed PELLEGRINI to setup MÜLLER with a simple goal. (1-1) 13² MAMARDASHVILI saved a glorious effort from VLAHOVIC. 17² The ref books GRIEZMANN for dangerous play against AÏT-NOURI. 21² SANÉ was put clear by VAN DIJK and he beat the Ajax 'keeper but rammed his shot wide. 24² A cross from TCHOUAMÉNI left REUS in plenty of space but he rushed his shot. 24² GRIEZMANN scuffed a simple chance. 25² GOAL!! Showing plenty of skill SANÉ dribbled past DOKU and tapped the ball past the Ajax 'keeper. (2-1 Lyon) 26² A great effort from HAVERTZ scraped the top of the crossbar. 27² GOAL!! A poor goal-kick was intercepted by KLUIVERT who setup PELLEGRINI with a simple chance. (2-2) 31² SANÉ headed wide. 35² A accurate pass bobbled toward VLAHOVIC and his right foot shot floated narrowly over. 39² GRIEZMANN chipped the ball to SANÉ who touched it over.

Lyon   League position: 1 Home league form: WWWW Overall league form: LWLWWWWW Formation: 4-4-2

Line-ups (c)ALISSON Ramses 6½ 1 6½ Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI Jules KOUNDÉ 7  2 6½ Devyne RENSCH Andy ROBERTSON 6½ 3 6½ Rayan AÏT-NOURI Aurélien TCHOUAMÉNI 7½ 4 6½ Manuel LOCATELLI(c) Antonio RÜDIGER 6½ 5 7  Evan N'DICKA Virgil VAN DIJK 7  6 7  PAU Francisco TORRES BERNARDO Mota SILVA 7  7 6½ Justin KLUIVERT(f) Marco REUS 7½ 8 7  Lorenzo PELLEGRINI Dusan VLAHOVIC 7½ 9 6½ Kai HAVERTZ(p) Antoine GRIEZMANN 7½ 10 6½ Thomas MÜLLER (p,f)Leroy SANÉ 6½ 11 7  Jéremy DOKU Chris Place Manager Luke Murray Julian BRANDT    12 6½ Mohammed KUDUS EDERSON Santana    13    Naci ÜNÜVAR VINÍCIUS José JÚNIOR    14    Thomas PARTEY Daniel CARVAJAL    15    Troy PARROTT Milan SKRINIAR    16    Sontje HANSEN

Ajax   League position: 13 Away league form: LLXW Overall league form: LLXLXLWL Formation: 4-2-3-1

Statistics

Lyon 2 Ajax 2 (Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 79,306, Stadium: de Gerland, Referee: Fortunato Alves Azevedo 7½) Bernardo Silva 20¹, Sané 25² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Müller 12², Pellegrini 27²   DokuóKudus 25²     Griezmann 17²   2 9 7 20 7 2 5 4 9 2 14 6 3 2 52% 48% ¶ Man of the match: Marco Reus ¶