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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio José Alvalade - Lisbon Wednesday 19 August 2020 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Olympique Lyonnais Matchday 10 - Semi-finals FC Bayern München Last updated 19/08/2020 10:28CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 7 1 Olympique Lyonnais - FC Bayern München Wednesday 19 August 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Match background Olympique Lyonnais take on Bayern München at the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon having suffered defeat against the German giants in their only previous UEFA Champions League semi-final. • Bayern stormed into the last four with a remarkable, and record-breaking, 8-2 victory against Barcelona – a result that equalled the biggest aggregate victory in a UEFA Champions League quarter-final. • Lyon, meanwhile, sprang a surprise against Manchester City in the last quarter-final, Moussa Dembélé coming off the bench to score twice and secure a 3-1 victory that set up a second Franco-German semi-final in this season's competition, 24 hours after Leipzig's tie against Paris Saint-Germain. • Not only did Bayern come out on top in the sides' semi-final meeting in 2010, they have won every game in this season's competition and have scored 39 goals in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League to date – the fourth highest tally in the competition's history and the best goal-per-game average of all (4.33). Previous meetings • All eight of the teams' past contests came between 2000 and 2010, and all in the UEFA Champions League. Bayern secured an ultimately comfortable win in that semi-final in 2010, Arjen Robben scoring the only goal of the first leg in Munich before an Ivica Olić hat-trick sealed a 3-0 win in Lyon with Thomas Müller providing an assist in that second leg. • In the 2008/09 group stage, they shared a 1-1 draw in Munich before a 3-2 Bayern win at Lyon's old Stade de Gerland home, Miroslav Klose scoring twice to help secure first place in the section and consign their hosts to second. • It was Lyon first and Bayern second when the teams met in the 2003/04 group stage. Then they drew 1-1 at Gerland – Péguy Luyindula's 88th-minute equaliser rescuing the hosts – before Lyon won 2-1 in Bavaria through a goal from Bayern old boy Giovane Elber. • The clubs first met in the 2000/01 second group stage, Jens Jeremies scoring the only goal in Munich in November 2000 and Sidney Govou hitting two first-half goals to set up a 3-0 Lyon victory in the return fixture in France on 6 March 2001, but Bayern still advanced and went on to claim the trophy that year while Les Gones, competing in their first UEFA Champions League, were eliminated. Form guide Lyon • Lyon have never played in the final of a major European competition – their only other semi-finals aside from that 2010 defeat by Bayern came in the 1963/64 European Cup Winners' Cup, which they lost to Sporting CP after a replay in neutral Madrid (0-0 h, 1-1 a, 0-1), and in the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League when they lost to Ajax (1-4 a, 3- 1 h). • Five French teams have reached the European Cup final: Reims (1956, 1959), St-Étienne (1976), Marseille (1991, 1993), Monaco (2004) and now Paris Saint-Germain (2020). Of those, only Marseille, in the inaugural UEFA Champions League final in 1993, lifted the trophy. • Eight Ligue 1 clubs have reached the European Cup semi-finals; Lyon are the sixth team to make more than one appearance, after Reims, St-Étienne, Marseille, Monaco and fellow 2019/20 semi-finalists Paris. • The success of Paris and Lyon this season means France has two teams in the European Cup semi-finals for the first time. • This season, Lyon squeezed into the last 16 as Group G runners-up having picked up eight points from their six games, one more than both Benfica and Zenit. Away from home, OL won 2-0 at eventual section winners Leipzig before losing at Benfica (1-2) and Zenit (0-2). They were 1-0 winners at home to Juventus in the round of 16 second leg and went through on away goals after losing 2-1 in Turin before beating City in the last eight thanks to Dembélé's late double after Maxwel Cornet's opener had been cancelled out. • The first leg against Juventus was Lyon's first win in the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds since a 1-0 first- leg victory against APOEL in February 2012; Les Gones went on to lose that last-16 tie on penalties and before this season had not progressed beyond that stage since reaching the last four in 2009/10. • The defeat at Juve was only Lyon's fifth loss in their last 21 European matches (W8 D8). It is five defeats in 14 away matches (W6 D3), with the win against City ending a three-match losing streak away from their own stadium. • When Lyon's Rayan Cherki came on as a substitute at Zenit on Matchday 5, he became, at 16 years 102 days, the second youngest player to appear in the UEFA Champions League – after Celestine Babayaro, who was aged 16 years 87 days when he played for Anderlecht against Olympiacos in November 1994. 2 Olympique Lyonnais - FC Bayern München Wednesday 19 August 2020 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon • This is Lyon's 16th UEFA Champions League campaign – four more than any other French club – and fourth in five seasons. • This season's results against Leipzig mean OL have lost only one of their six games against Bundesliga clubs since that semi-final defeat by Bayern in 2010 (W2 D3). • OL have won eight of their last 17 matches against German opposition (D5 L4), the 2-0 success at Leipzig on Matchday 1 in 2019/20 ending a four-game winless run in those games outside France (D2 L2). • That 2010 defeat by Bayern made Lyon's knockout record in ties against German clubs W2 L4. The most recent success came against Werder Bremen in the only other UEFA Champions League fixtures, in the 2004/05 round of 16 (3-0 a, 7-2 h). • Les Gones have now played two games in Lisbon this season, firstly going down 2-1 at Benfica on Matchday 3. The quarter-final defeat of City was their first win in the city in their fourth fixture (D1 L2), the draw coming against Sporting CP at the old Estádio José Alvalade in the 1963/64 European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final second leg. Lyon have now won three of their eight UEFA fixtures in Portugal (D1 L4), the first seven of those games against local sides. • Lyon's record in three UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W1 L2: 2-4 v PSV Eindhoven, 2004/05 UEFA Champions League quarter-final 3-4 v APOEL, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League round of 16 7-6 v Beşiktaş, 2016/17 UEFA Europa League quarter-final Bayern • Bayern are appearing in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for the 12th time, moving level with Barcelona and behind only Real Madrid (13). • Bayern's European Cup semi-final record is W10 L9: 1973/74 Újpest W 4-1 (1-1 a, 3-0 h) 1974/75 St-Étienne W 2-0 (0-0 a, 2-0 h) 1975/76 Real Madrid W 3-1 (1-1 a, 2-0 h) 1980/81 Liverpool D 1-1, lost on away goals (0-0 a, 1-1 h) 1981/82 CSKA Sofia W 7-4 (3-4 a, 4-0 h) 1986/87 Real Madrid W 4-2 (4-1 h, 0-1 a) 1989/90 AC Milan D 2-2, lost on away goals (0-1 a, 2-1 h) 1990/91 Crvena zvezda L 3-4 (1-2 h, 2-2 a) 1994/95 Ajax L 2-5 (0-0 h, 2-5 a) 1998/99 Dynamo Kyiv W 4-3 (3-3 a, 1-0 h) 1999/2000 Real Madrid L 2-3 (0-2 a, 2-1 h) 2000/01 Real Madrid W 3-1 (1-0 a, 2-1 h) 2009/10 Lyon W 4-0 (1-0 h, 3-0 a) 2011/12 Real Madrid D 3-3, won 3-1 on penalties (2-1 h, 1-2 a) 2012/13 Barcelona W 7-0 (4-0 h, 3-0 a) 2013/14 Real Madrid L 0-5 (0-1 a, 0-4 h) 2014/15 Barcelona L 3-5 (0-3 a, 3-2 h) 2015/16 Atlético de Madrid D 2-2, lost on away goals (0-1 a, 2-1 h) 2017/18 Real Madrid L 3-4 (1-2 h, 2-2 a) • Bayern have lost their last four semi-finals, having won the previous four. • Leipzig's qualification for the semi-finals alongside Bayern means Germany has two teams in the last four of the UEFA Champions League for only the second time. On the other occasion, in 2012/13, Bayern and Dortmund went on to contest the final. • Bayern became only the seventh team – and first from Germany – to win all six games in the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, recording big wins at Tottenham (7-2) – a game in which Serge Gnabry scored four goals – and Crvena zvezda (6-0).