A Rough Start: Lille Draws Nancy In Opening Match

The 2008/2009 Ligue 1 season started last weekend. Lille’s first match was against AS Nancy. Nancy finished 4th in the table last season taking them to the UEFA Cup. Lille finished 7th and led the league in ties. It is very fitting that our first match and another Ligue 1 match ends in a draw and is low scoring. No goals were scored in the entire match. The Ligue 1 yawns continue. No surprise at all that few people watch Ligue 1 outside of France. It just isn’t as exciting title and match wise as the EPL, La Liga, or even Serie A. We were missing Kevin Mirallas for the match. He is still at the Olympics playing with Belgium, which is having a nice tournament. So maybe the score could have been a little different. Maybe he would have scored and earned us our first three points. Well at least we gained 1 away point. We weren’t at home and at the end of the match LOSC was down to 10 men from a Rami red card. Our midfield played really well. Despite missing Claude Puel Les Dogues still played well. There were many chances to score. Lille’s next match is against Rudi Garcia’s former club, Le Mans. Match facts:
Saturday, August 9th- 21:00 H
STADE MARCEL PICOT
17,611 spectators

Nancy:
1 BRACIGLIANO (c)
5 LUIZ
20 CHRETIEN
27 OUADDOU
MACALUSO (73′ )
4 MALONGA
15 HADJI
18 FERET
24 GAVANON
CURBELO (89′ )
26 N’GUEMO
10 DIA
NDIAYE (61′ )
22 FORTUNE

Lille:
16 MALICKI
18 BERIA
20 TAFFOREAU
23 RAMI
2 DEBUCHY
4 BALMONT
7 CABAYE
EMERSON (90′ +1)
8 BASTOS
DUMONT (84′ )
24 MAVUBA (c)
6 FRAU
TOURE (28′ )
13 FAUVERGUE

Yellow Cards:
23 ‘ N’GUEMO (ASN)
36 ‘ LUIZ (ASN)
39 ‘ BALMONT (LOSC)
63 ‘ GAVANON (ASN)
85 ‘ BERIA (LOSC)

Red Cards: 90′+2 Rami (LOSC)

Category: Matches, Team News

Tags: AS Nancy, EPL, Garcia, La Liga, Matches, Mirallas, Puel, Rami, Serie A, Team News

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