Dubai Super Cup: Lyon Beat Liverpool

Written By Uche Dozie

Olympique Lyonnaise of France defeated English side Liverpool FC in the Dubai Super Cup mid season friendly by three goals to one on Sunday at the Al Maktoum Stadium.

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Jurgen Klopp’s side suffered defeat in their opening Dubai Super Cup contest despite Fabio Carvalho gave Liverpool an early lead, Lyon hit back with goals from Alexandre Lacazette (2) and Bradley Barcola.

Liverpool catch Lyon up the pitch inside the first minute and after Firmino had fed Salah, it fell to Carvalho who couldn’t miss to make it 1-0 nil of Liverpool.

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Salah would have made it two some minutes later after he got a penalty, but it was missed by the Egyptian man.

Lyon equalled score after a mix-up between Robertson and Kelleher which allowed Lacazette to sneak in and score towards the end of the first half.

The second half saw the Ligue 1 side on the ascendency after several changes by Jurgen Klopp to the side which started the first half.

Effective dribbling from Rayan Chekri inside the Liverpool penalty area saw him evade all challenges before picking out his team-mate, Bradley Barcola, who fired a first-time shot past Adrian to make it 2-1.

Minutes later, Adrian made a great save to deny Kumbedi, but the ball bounced back out to Lacazette, who took a touch to control the ball before firing into the top left corner.

A penalty shootout followed despite Liverpool lost as per the tradition of the competition.

At the penalty shootout, Lyon triumphed by five goals to three.

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Jurgen Klopp has insisted that his players will use the friendly defeat to Olympique Lyonnais in Dubai as a ‘learning curve’.

Speaking to the club’s official website after the game, manager Klopp said: “The start of the game from us was really good, I liked a lot of parts in the first half. I saw what we were working on in the training sessions so far. Really aggressive, played well, good connected, could have scored a second one and then we concede the equaliser with a misunderstanding between Robbo and Caoimhin. Not cool – but can happen, obviously.

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“Second half we had to change a lot [and] with all the things we did in training it was clear 60 minutes is the maximum what anybody can play. And then we were really young and not well organised anymore. Let me say it like this, when we lost the ball then it ended up in front of our goal.

“Every ball we lost was a counter-attack and was pretty much a big chance, that’s of course not how it should look, but that’s a learning curve and we will use this game to learn from.”

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