Olympique Lyon vs Bayern Munchen LIVE
UPDATE: 22:33: Busacca blows his whistle and Bayern is through to the final of the UEFA Champions League, with a 4-0 aggregate score. Olic is undobtedly the man of the match. We hope you enjoyed this live coverage of the semifinal as much as we did.
UPDATE 22:25: Nothing much happening. Altintop is still trying to get even more out of the game for Bayern.
UPDATE 22:18: Olic get his hattrick after all. 0-3 and a beautiful header by Olic.
UPDATE 22:14: Olic seems to want a hattrick. Another opportunity for him.
UPDATE 22:11: o-2 – Ivica Olic the scorer! Fabulous through pass by Altintop.
UPDATE 22:03: Govou shoots, but Butt manages to keep it out.
UPDATE 22:00: RED CARD for Lyon Cris gets a yellow card, protests and gets a second yellow.
UPDATE 21:55: Schweinsteiger’s effort goes over, after Robben went through Lyon’s defense.
UPDATE 21:51: Lyon attacks. A great cross, but Gomis doesn’t seem to know what to do with it.
UPDATE: 21:45: The second half has just started. Lyon need to show a good attacking display if they want to score three times.
UPDATE: 21:30: first half is now over. The score is still 0-1 at Stade Gerland. Olic is the scorer and Lyon look like they could use a miracle in the second half.
UPDATE 21:28: Bayern looks like it could score again today, while Lyon doesn’t look like it could pose any threats. Robben was caught offside very closely.
UPDATE 21:23: Robben shoots, the ball hits Cris. Corner for Bayern. Nothing comes out of it, though.
UPDATE 21:20: Bastos misses a huge opportunity for Lyon.
UPDATE 21:14: GOAL! 0-1! Olic scores for Bayern. Muller the passer.
UPDATE 21:05: The Germans are passing very well, and Lyon are running a lot in order to try to keep the ball.
UPDATE 21:00: A cross in front of goal for Bayern, but nobdy is there to take advantage.
UPDATE 20:51: Olic very close to scoring. That would have been the end for Lyon.
UPDATE 20:45: the game has started. Massimo Bussaca has blown his whistle and we’re underway.
UPDATE: 20.38: BAYERN: Butt, Lahm, Van Buyten, Badstuber, Contento, Robben, Schweinsteiger, Van Bommel, Altintop, Muller, Olic; Subs: Rensing, Demichelis, Gorlitz, Klose, Alaba, Gomez
UPDATE 20.31: LYON: Lloris, Reveillere, Cris, Boumsong, Cissokho, Gonalons, Makoun, Govou, Delgado, Michel Bastos, Lopez; Subs: Vercoutre, Kallstrom, Pjanic, Ederson, Gomis, Anderson, Gassama
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Olympique Lyon will look to their formidable European home record this season as they bid to overturn a 1-0 deficit and secure a first UEFA Champions League final place at the expense of Bayern Munich.
Lyon are are unbeaten at Stade de Gerland in Europe this season and, having won their last three UEFA Champions League home outings, will hope to make it four in a row against their German visitors.
Lyon have never played in the final of a major European competition – the closest they got previously was the last four of the 1963/64 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, losing to Sporting Clube de Portugal after a replay.
Bayern, by contrast, are competing in their 13th semi-final in Europe’s elite club competition and aiming to qualify for their first final since they beat Valencia CF to win the UEFA Champions League in 2001 – when, as now, they overcame Manchester United FC in the quarter-finals.
Bayern coach Louis van Gaal is hoping to lead the German club to the UEFA Champions League 15 years after winning it with Ajax. Only Ernst Happel (Feyenoord 1970, Hamburger SV 1983) and Ottmar Hitzfeld (BV Borussia Dortmund 1997, Bayern 2001) have won the European Cup as coaches of two different clubs. FC Internazionale Milano’s José Mourinho, a winner with FC Porto in 2004, is also attempting the feat this time round.
The victorious team will advance to the final at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid on 22 May where they will play the winners of the Barcelona-Inter semifinal.
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