OK, we admit, we dropped the ball a bit on this one. First, Big Boss left it off the schedule so we didn’t get a preview up, then the brave soul who’d offered to watch the game got stuck at work. We were kind of hoping we could just reprint [...]
Long after the fans had all left the Estadio du Luz this evening, you could still see the dim of the floodlights illuminate the Lisbon skyline. Although the game was long over you could still see the Bordeaux players trying their best to put the ball in the back of [...]
In the end it was a mixed Thursday night for the French sides in Europa League action. Two teams were reduced to one, but it could so easily have been both teams through to the next round. Moussa Dembele’s injury-time strike against Lyon levelled the scores on the night but [...]
It was certainly unglamourous, but mission accomplished as Bordeaux grabbed an away goal and take Dynamo Kiev back to France with a 1-1 draw. Although my prediction was correct, it was touch-and-go for a long time as lady luck certainly aided the visitors in this game. Gusev, Yarmolenko and Haruna [...]
Love hurts! After coming back from a goal down and looking for every passing minute that they could escape from London with an excellent away result, it was Gareth Bale’s delicious left foot that twice struck the decisive blow on a heart-breaking Valentine’s Day evening in London for Lyon. This [...]
Europa League football is back this midweek, and Theo Benneworth looks ahead to the Anglo-French clash between Spurs and Lyon. After a two-month break, European football nights are back to quench our thirst for club-level continental clashes. While Tuesday and Wednesday gave us a few sips of Champion’s League action, [...]
Europa League football is back this midweek, and Matthew Richards looks ahead to the Franco-Ukrainian clash between Dynamo Kiev and Bordeaux. As the round of 32 of the Europa League rolls into town, Ligue 1 finds itself with two representatives still in contention. No doubt the ‘glamour tie’ of the two sees [...]
Ladies and Gentleman, get the kettle on, sit back and relax as you join the excellent Theo Benneworth as he watches two of Ligue 1′s finest over a 48 hour period. Last week I indulged in a Rhône-Alpes football fest, watching games in both Lyon and Saint Etienne… on consecutive [...]