Thierry Henry without mercy for Hugo Lloris

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By: Manu Tournoux

Author of a double on penalty against OM on Tuesday evening at the Bernabéu, on behalf of the first day of the Champions League, Kylian Mbappé always registers his name in the history of French football. The current captain of the Blues is the fourth tricolor player to score two goals with a foreign club against French training, after Thierry Henry with Barça, Karim Benzema three times with Real Madrid (against Auxerre and twice PSG) and Corentin Tolisso with Bayern (also against the Parisians).

In March 2009, in the round of 16 return from the C1 (1-1 to Gerland), Henry hurt OL very much by offering a double in three minutes. Arsenal's legendary scorer, then passed by the Blaugranas from 2007 to 2010, opened the scoring against the Gones by adjusting Hugo Lloris (25th). It was covered by Jean-Alain Boumsong on a deep ball from Rafa Marquez. In the process, the 2018 world champion, shifted by Xavi, marked in force, from the left, at the expense of the young 22 -year -old goalkeeper (27th).

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If “Titi” Henry missed the hat -trick in the second half by hitting Lloris, the goals continued to rain in the Catalan night. And it was a ordeal for the goalkeeper formed at the OGC Nice. The end of the first period was completely crazy. Lionel Messi has taken speed Fabio roughly to find the small opposite Lyon net (40th). Then Samuel Eto'o, served by Henry, took advantage of the bad scream reading to shoot Lloris too (43rd). 4-0!

Hugo Lloris takes a fifth …

Claude Puel's players reduced the gap to return to the locker room at 4-1. John II Makoun marked the head on a corner from Juninho (44th). This same “juni”, taking advantage of an erasure of Karim Benzema, revived the suspense as soon as the recovery (48th). The men of Pep Guardiola, with a magnificent midfielder Yaya Touré-Xavi Hernandez-Andrés Iniesta, controlled the rest of the meeting. Juninho saw red in the 90th minute and, in additional time, Seydou Keita avoided Hugo Lloris to score the fifth Barcelona goal (95th).

Unhappy finalist in 2006 with Arsenal against Barça, at the Stade de France, Thierry Henry won his only Champions League with Barça a few months later, on May 27, 2009 in Rome, after a final won 2-0 against the Rival des Gunners, Manchester United.