and the winning rate is 50%. Neil Lennon's … TEAM P W D L GD PTS; Innovating Football Betting Tips to Dominate The Online Sports Betting Bookmakers! Lyon 2 Celtic 1 - Best of the action from Veolia Trophy clash An experimental Celtic side were second best against Lyon, before a changing of the guard brought a … You can unsubscribe at any time. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Dembele headed Lyon in front early on before Memphis Depay gave the hosts a two-goal lead prior to the break.
It’s a decent effort but pretty straight and Lopes beats it away.The French side have a cup final and a clash with Juventus in August and it shows.They’re pressing really well, and this doesn’t look like a pre-season performance.It should be noted that they’ve played two friendlies to Celtic’s one, and the Ligue 1 outfit certainly look closer to full sharpness.Just as Celtic were really coming into it, Lyon grab a second.Bolingoli gets sucked in as a long ball finds Dubois on the left. Bitton’s free-kick came off the wall to safety.
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The Hoops reunite with Moussa Dembele as they face their second match of pre-season.The Hoops had drawn 1-1 with Nice in their opening match of the Veolia tournament but Despite all the new faces though it was a familiar one that opened the scoring, as The young Celts looked in danger of being overwhelmed in the opening stages but they slowly established a foothold in the game.That was until some poor defending from Boli Bolingoli allowed Léo Dubois free on the right, with the French international teeing-up Memphis Depay for a cheeky backheel finish.Lennon resisted the temptation to make changes at the break and Lyon continued to have the upper hand, with Mephis striking the bar from close range.There was a changing of the guard on the hour mark though, as Celtic changed all 10 outfield players as their recognised first XI entered the fray.Moi Elyounoussi reduced the arrears with a fine strike late on, but it was too late to salvage anything from the game.The referee doesn’t bother with any added time and ends it there.They were second best for most of the match, but started with a much-changed team.We saw some positive signs from a few of the youngsters, but also some definite areas for improvement.One the starters came on Celtic looked better, as you’d expect, but that spurred Lyon to raise it too.In the end we saw a decent performance from the likes of Soro and a lovely goal by Elyounoussi but nothing that can tell us too much,The Norwegian receives it from Forrest on the left and stands up Marcelo before cutting in on his left foot.He shapes as if to bend it in the far corner but whips it back across Lopes and into the net.Memphis shoots from the free-kick but he blazes it wildly over.Maxwel Cornet’s run was his last contribution of the game as he goes off for Youssouf Koné.Lovely run from Cornet but he doesn’t have the pace to get away from Frimpong.The right-back keeps him under wraps but when Houssem Aouar receives it from the left-back he’s fouled by Christie.The first change comes for Lyon as Marçal goes off to be replaced by Kenny Tete.We may see a change of shape here, as Rudi Garcia was berating Thiago Mendes a few minutes ago for being too far forward and depriving his team-mates of an option in the middle.The Celtic skipper isn’t happy with Thiago Mendes and gives him some verbals as they jog back from the corner.Greg Taylor forces Denayer into conceding a corner.Jullien and Ajer are up from the back but Christie’s corner isn’t the best and it goes behind for a goal kick.Celtic look like they have more purpose after the changes and Lyon have responded to that.The French side look like they’ve gone back up a couple of gears and are moving it nicely.Surprisingly, Rudi Garcia has so far resisted the urge to make changes.So as things stand it’s the Lyon first XI against the Celtic first XI.Houssem Aouar is fouled by Christie and Lyon have a free-kick.It’s too far out for a shot but they work it wide and eventually win a corner.The ball comes in but Marcelo can’t get a clean connection and it’s cleared.Elyounoussi with a little stepover on the edge of the box, and the Norwegian exchanges passes with Forrest.It comes back to Elyounoussi who tries to curl one in the far corner, but Lopes gets down to save.So on come: Frimpong, Jullien, Ajer, Taylor, Brown, Elyounoussi, McGregor, Edouard, Forrest and Christie.Bear with us here because there are a load of them...He plays it to Henderson but his cross is easily gathered by Lopes.It looks like Lennon is going to switch things up after an hour as he did on Thursday.Bolingoli sends a long ball down the line which Denayer can’t deal with.Quick as a flash the Polish striker is on him and for a second it looks like he’s one-on-one with Lopes, but a Lyon defender gets across to deny him.Dubois again gets too much space down the Celtic left.He gets it back for Memphis, but his right-footed strike cannons back off the crossbar.Elhamed whips one in and Klimala goes up for it, but Denayer just eases him off it.That’s was good from Celtic though, a sustained spell of possession as patiently worked to find a gap.Lyon aren’t pressing as aggressively and that’s allowing Celtic to get a bit of possession.Unfortunately for the Hoops Bolingoli dwells too long on it and allows a promising break, but the Lyon counter breaks down.Klimala again fails to hold it up and loses it to Marcelo.That allows Memphis to break and he wins the corner off Stephen Welsh.The captain takes it low but it’s scrambled behind again.This time Memphis lofts one in and Marcelo doesn’t quite connect properly.A third corner comes in from Memphis and this time it’s cleared.Doesn’t look like there have been any changes so far - Elhamed is out for the second period.What can we say about that first half?