Newspaper player ratings Lyon 3-1 Man City 15 August 2020 | L’Equipe, AS, Sport rate Aouar, De Bruyne & co.

Here is a look at the player ratings from some of the big European newspapers following Olympique Lyon’s 3-1 win over Manchester City that sent the former into a semi-final against Bayern Munich. Moussa Dembele scored twice off the bench, as City, despite dominating the xG battle, lost 3-1 on the scoreboard.

L’Equipe player ratings Lyon vs City

French newspaper L’Equipe gave Houssem Aouar a 9/10 player rating, the best on either side. Man City goal scorer Kevin de Bruyne was the best among the City starters with his 6/10. LE were frustrated with Pep Guardiola, giving him a manager rating of 3/10, as opposed to the 9/10 they gave Rudi Garcia.

Player Ratings OL Manchester City L'Equipe Champions League

AS newspaper player ratings OL Manchester City Champions League

Spanish newspaper AS gave three stars to Aouar, KdB and Dembele, who netted twice after coming on. Ederson wasn’t deemed worthy of a rating.

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xG Manchester City Lyon Champions League 2020 Quarter Final | Expected Goals Stats MCFC 2.68-0.87 OL

Man City lost 3-1 to Lyon in their Champions League quarterfinal on 15 August 2020, but the expected goals metric paints a different story of the match-City dominated in terms of possession and shots, and actually finished with a xG of 2.68, as opposed to OL’s 0.87 xG.

xg manchester city lyon 2020

Stats- xG score of individual goals in City-OL

0-1 Maxwell Cornet 24 (xG 0.11)
1-1 Kevin de Bruyne 69 (xG 0.06)
1-2 Moussa Dembele 79 (xG 0.11)
1-3 Moussa Dembele 87 (xG 0.51)

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Raheem Sterling open goal miss vs Lyon 2020 | Sterling misses open goal against OL & Guardiola reaction

This shocking Raheem Sterling miss vs Lyon is probably one that will haunt the Man City forward for a long, long time as he missed a golden opportunity to equalise for the Citizens in the 86th minute of the game at 2-1. The bad part- just seconds later, OL ended up scoring at the other end of the pitch to make it 3-1!

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