Real Madrid CF have lost on their three previous visits to Lyon, including in the last 16 a year ago, but Ricardo Carvalho is determined that they put that rightLyon vs Real Madrid Preview UEFA Champions League Tonight 22/02/2011
Lyon - Real Madrid Champions League Match kick off time 20:45 CET 19:45 UK at the Stade de Gerland - Lyon, Olympique Lyon coach Claude Puel said his side would face a "better balanced" team than the Real Madrid CF that they beat at this stage of last season's UEFA Champions League yet, despite the absence of Lisandro, he believes they are in the mood to repeat that success. Madrid have lost in the round of 16 six years running but Jos Mourinho is not looking to the past.
Claude Puel, Lyon coachI don't know if Madrid are stronger than last season. They're different, perhaps a bit better balanced thanks to some hard workers in the midfield. Either way they're still a team made up of players of great quality like [Sami] Khedira, [ngel] Di Mara, [Emmanuel] Adebayor and [Mesut] zil. Madrid are not just Jos Mourinho, even though he was a great recruit for the club. We have to be wary of all of them.We can regret the fact that Lisandro won't play as he's able to do great things in this kind of game. But, some players are coming into form, like 'Chelito' Delgado. He's often effective in Europe and his ability to dribble and beat a man can really help us. Our aim is to qualify for the next round. Last year, few people believed in us. We managed to raise our game and maybe it surprised Madrid. I think the best of Lyon is still to come.
Jos Mourinho, Real Madrid coachA lot of new players came to Madrid this year and have never played in a game between Lyon and Real Madrid. Lyon are a good team, who have experience of this kind of game. But we are Madrid. We don't have to look at the past or statistics. If we think that both games will be easy, it's going to be difficult for us. We have to do well in both games. We know our ability and won't underestimate Lyon.It's been six years since Madrid reached the quarter-finals. When I was at Inter, the club hadn't won the Champions League for more than 50 years. Is it possible to do it this year? We have to beat Lyon... Zindine Zidane gave us a lot of advice in preparing for this game.
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Lisandro pulled his hamstring in training on Thursday and will be missing, but Ederson is back in training having not played since August because of a thigh injury. Yoann Gourcuff (knee), Clment Grenier (thigh) and Csar Delgado (thigh) are all fit after lengthy spells out. Dejan Lovren and Michel Bastos are within a booking of a one-match European suspension.
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Pepe sat out the weekend win against Levante UD with a sore calf, while Gonzalo Higuan could miss the rest of the season after suffering a slipped disc in November. Kak (knee), Fernando Gago (knee) and Jerzy Dudek (broken jaw) have all shaken off injuries. Cristiano Ronaldo and Ral Albiol will miss the rematch if they are booked in Lyon.
Weekend resultsFriday: Lyon 4-0 AS Nancy-Lorraine(Gourcuff 37, Pied 76, Pjani? 86, Briand 89)Lyon secured their biggest victory since beating FC Sochaux-Montbliard by the same scoreline on 21 February 2010. Miralem Pjani? opened his Ligue 1 account for the season and Jimmy Briand, with a bicycle kick, struck his first league goal at the Stade de Gerland since joining the club.
Saturday: Real Madrid 2-0 Levante UD(Benzema 6, Carvalho 41)Levante's last trip to the Santiago Bernabu, in the Copa del Rey on 22 December, ended with an 8-0 home victory. The margin was less emphatic at the weekend, but Madrid none the less recorded their 19th home victory of the season in all competitions, maintaining a 100% record.
Did you know?Prior to last season's success against Madrid, Lyon had faced Spanish opposition twice before in the last 16, losing to FC Barcelona in 2008/09 but overcoming Real Sociedad de Ftbol in 2003/04.
Six long years have passed since the most successful side in European club competition history last made it past the UEFA Champions League round of 16, but defender Ricardo Carvalho says Real Madrid CF are determined to put that right against Olympique Lyonnais.
It was of course the French side who knocked Madrid out at this stage last season, beating them 1-0 at the Stade de Gerland then drawing 1-1 in the Spanish capital. Since then Carvalho, eliminated in the last 16 with Chelsea FC 12 months ago by FC Internazionale Milano, has followed the opposing coach that day - his ex-Blues and FC Porto mentor Jos Mourinho - to the Santiago Bernabu.
Now Carvalho is determined to put Madrid's knockout woes behind them. "We know the importance of this event for the club and the players," the 32-year-old Portuguese international said. "We'll try to score a goal and get a good result before the return game."
Carvalho, at least, knows how to knock Lyon out of the UEFA Champions League having done it with Porto under Mourinho in the 2003/04 quarter-finals, winning 2-0 at home and drawing 2-2 in France on their way to lifting the trophy. "I remember it, of course," Carvalho said. "It's still a good moment in my career."
However, in Madrid's own three UEFA Champions League trips to Lyon, going back to 2005, they have lost on every occasion - without scoring - and were held in each of the home returns, the first two in the group stage. Carvalho is sure they can now end that run. "We are confident because we are in a positive period, in particular at home," he said. "If we want to qualify, we can't be satisfied with only one good game at this stage of the competition. We have to do well [in Lyon] and be efficient during the return game."
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