After his beautiful European journey last season, theOlympique Lyonnais Takens this new Europa League campaign with full ambition. The Paulo Fonseca team, deprived of its Captain Corentin Tolisso, moves to the Netherlands to face the Dutch of FC Utrecht, a stable that makes its return after 15 years without European Cup.
“We arrive here with a lot of ambitions, A assumed Paulo Fonseca. We want to start the Europa League. We will play with a strong team, the best possible to face this opponent. But it is true that we have the absence of Corentin. We can change some players. We also have another important match this weekend. Only Rémy and Abner are injured. Corentin is suspended, but all the others are ready to play … It is impossible to forget the Manchester match, but now we are a different team. We are under construction with young players. Several of them will play their first European Cup match; The ambition remains the same: to start the competition well ”. The tone is set.
The expected compos
Utrecht : Barkas – Horemans, Van der Hoorn, Virgin, El Karouani – Engwanda, Zechiel – Rodriguez, Bozdogan, Blake – Min.
Lyon : GREIF-MAITLAND-NILS, MATA, NiaKhaté, Tagliafico-Morton, Tessmann-Karabec, Merah, Fofana-Satriano.
Where to see the match?
This Europa League match between Utrecht and Olympique Lyon will be broadcast this Thursday on Canal +, from 9 p.m. It will also be possible to look at it on the group's streaming platform, MyCanal.
