On April 23, in the 35th round of Ligue 1, Lyon challenged the relegation team Toulouse away.

With the Champions League semi-finals just around the corner, Lyon won't be spending too much time on a team like Toulouse.

In the end, thanks to goals from Fekir, Ghazal and Tolisso, Lyon won 3-2 away.

It's not a big game, but it's nice to win one game before the Champions League semi-finals start.

However, there was a loss of points in this round of Grand Paris.

It may have been the absence of Lyon's catch up that made them slacken a little, drawing 1-1 away to Bordeaux.

In this way, Lyon managed to recover a two-point difference.

At the moment, Grand Paris has 87 points and Lyon has 83 points.

With three rounds left in Ligue 1, Grand Paris are four points ahead of Lyon, which is also a huge lead.

The Lyon players no longer cared about Ligue 1 and the team was ready to go to Spain.

According to the Champions League semi-final schedule, Lyon first away and then home.

Before the departure, the Lyon team also received encouragement from the female football players.

"Come on, let's go to Milan together!"

The Lyon men's football team can only be regarded as a strong team in the whole of European football.

But Lyon women's football team is a standard European top giant, the team is well-run, the treatment is good, the stadium facilities are perfect, and it is very competitive.

Most female footballers are happy to play at Lyon, just like men's footballers are happy to play at Real Madrid and Barcelona.

At present, the Lyon women's football team is almost all key players of the women's national football teams of various countries.

England's main midfielder, the Netherlands' main striker in Norway, Japan's main defender, these people all play for Lyon women's football.

In terms of team results, Lyon women's football team has completed the eighth consecutive championship of the French women's football team, and it seems that it will continue to win the championship.

You must know that the French Women's Football League was officially established in 2008.

In other words, since the inception of the French Women's Football League, Lyon has always won the championship.

At the same time, in the Women's Champions League, Lyon Women's Football Team also reached the final for four consecutive years and won the championship twice.

However, in the last two seasons, the Champions League results of the Lyon women's football team have not been satisfactory.

But this season, they're making a comeback.

Norwegian striker Ada Hegberg, who is currently at the heart of Lyon's women's football team, has been fierce in Ligue 1 and Champions League this season.

30 goals have been scored in 20 rounds of Ligue 1 matches, helping Lyon win the Ligue 1 title two rounds ahead of schedule.

He scored 10 goals in six games in the Champions League and led Lyon to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

The semi-final opponent is none other than the French second team, Paris, so Lyon should have no problem advancing to the final.

Lyon are the only team in Europe to have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League this season in both men's and women's teams.

If they can all qualify, they can go to Milan, Italy to participate in the Champions League final together.

The men's and women's Champions League finals are usually held at the same venue, but the time is staggered by several days.

By the way, in the round of 16 of the Women's Champions League this season, the Lyon women's football team met the Atletico Madrid women's football team, and finally Lyon won 9:1 over two legs to advance, and Ada Hegerberg scored two goals home and away.

It is precisely for this reason that Olas arranged for the female football players to express their encouragement on the team's official media, hoping to ask for a lottery.

But men's football is not as good as women's football.

The reason why Lyon women's football team is competitive is because the team management pays attention and has always been involved.

And many teams in Europe do not have women's football at all, and even if they do, they are laissez-faire and basically do not bother to manage.

That's what Atletico is like.

Their women's and men's football fighting power is not at all a level.

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On April 27, the first leg of the Champions League semifinals, Lyon's away game against Atletico Madrid arrived.

Calderón Stadium was packed, and the red, white and blue colors decorated the lively atmosphere.

Atletico fans played a huge big-eared cup pattern, and even King Felipe of Spain was there to cheer for Atletico.

Atletico Madrid have reached the Champions League final twice in their history, but both have lost sadly.

The first time was in the 70s of the last century, when he met the peak Bayern in the final, and played with Bayern for 120 minutes to draw 1:1, but at that time, the Champions League had not yet introduced the penalty shootout mechanism, so he replayed on another day and lost 0:4.

The second time was in the 13/14 Champions League two years ago, when Real Madrid were beaten in the final but were drawn in injury time and lost the title in extra time.

Now, after two years, Atletico Madrid has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, and against such a relatively easy opponent as Lyon, Atletico Madrid fans are looking forward to reaching the final again and truly fulfilling the dream of winning the Champions League.

The game officially began, and Lyon quickly felt the iron-blooded defense of the Sheets.

Fierce scrambling, fighting for every ball, from forwards to defenders have very good defensive awareness and defensive enthusiasm.

I have to say that under Simeone's tutelage, the current Atletico Madrid team is quite good in terms of mental attributes and overall strength.

Before the game, Fournier praised Atletico Madrid as a team at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona, which is really similar.

On the court, Zhang Chaoqiang must deal with the ball quickly every time he takes the ball, otherwise he will fall into the encirclement in a moment.

Fortunately, Lyon did not demand much of this game and did not think about winning away from home.

If you can hold on to a 0-0 away game, it's the perfect scoreline.

In order to deal with Atletico Madrid, the Lyon coaching staff copied the tactics of PSV Eindhoven against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League round of 16 and put on a big iron bucket formation.

In the round of 16 of the Champions League, PSV Eindhoven was able to draw 0:0 with Atletico Madrid home and away, and finally forced the opponent to fight a penalty shootout with himself, relying on stubborn tactics.

The two legs of home and away games combined took 210 minutes for PSV Eindhoven to barely double in double shots, and more than half of them were squandering shots.

As for hitting the door frame, there was only one pitiful one.

But even so, they still held on to the penalty shoot-out and almost toppled Atletico Madrid.

So Lyon should learn from it.

Of course, the overall form of Atletico's forward line in the last 16 of the Champions League was not good, and Griezmann and Torres both wasted great opportunities, which was also an important reason for the game.

And now they're all back in shape.

Atletico Madrid eliminated Barcelona 3-2 in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and it was Griezmann and Torres who scored three goals.

However, in terms of individual ability, the Lyon players are certainly stronger than PSV Eindhoven.

Therefore, Fournier believes that Lyon should achieve good results if they continue to use the same tactics.

So Lyon played a big game away from home, trying to be patient with Atletico Madrid.

If Atletico Madrid has a careless heart and thinks that Lyon is not strong enough to bully, it is likely to give them a chance.

It's a pity that Atletico Madrid has always been very patient and has always defended solidly, especially for Zhang Chaoqiang.

This has resulted in a dull game with few chances for both sides.

It wasn't until the 75th minute of the second half that Griezmann made a nimble croquette, which passed between Tolisso, Gonarons and Umtiti, burst into the Lyon penalty area and sent the ball into the bottom left corner of the goal with a smashing shot.

Relying on the performance of the leading star, Atletico finally broke the deadlock.

Then the game quickly entered the 80th minute, and Zhang Chaoqiang's [Mr. Key] was triggered.

But Atletico Madrid's marking of him was too tight, and it was not until injury time that he took a cold shot and fired a heavy shot, but it was also denied by the crossbar.

In this way, Lyon lost 0:1 away to Atletico Madrid and suffered a first-leg defeat.

"Lyon lost the first leg 1-0 away, just like they did against Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League."

"I believe that when I return to my home stadium in the second leg, Lyon can still turn the tables and advance."

After all, the Champions League quarterfinals overturned Bayern, so commentators from various countries believe that Lyon has the ability to return to the home stadium to turn the tables.