Marseille midfielder Benoit Cheyrou has been handed a debut call-up to the France squad to face Spain on March 3.

Lyon 1 Real Madrid 0

WILLIAM GALLAS fired a relieved France into the World Cup finals as a controversial winner shattered the Republic of Ireland’s brave resistance.

MAYBE the spirit of Patrick Vieira lives on after all.

Liam Lawrence was handed the task of shoring up the Republic of Ireland’s right flank in their World Cup play-off with France.

LIVERPOOL’S hearts were broken by a cruel last-minute equaliser that has all but ended their Champions League dreams for a traumatic season.

Lyon 1 Liverpool 1

Liverpool are able to call on defender Daniel Agger for tonight's crunch Champions League Group E clash in the Stade Gerland, the Dane having recovered sufficiently from a back problem to return for the Anfield club’s injury-hit side.

Liverpool 1 Lyon 2

ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC hopes to make a winning return to the San Siro to face his former club Inter Milan tonight when FC Barcelona begin their Champions League title defence.

France and Italy walk out for their trans-Alpine clash at Zurich’s Letzigrund tonight knowing their Euro 2008 fate lies in the hands of Romania.

Netherlands 4 France 1

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson rang the changes for this crucial Champions League match against Lyon at Old Trafford.

Lyon 1 Manchester United 1

Rangers 0 Lyon 3

Walter Smith fielded a cautious line-up for Rangers’ crunch Champions League qualifier against Lyon at Ibrox.

FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech has sprung a surprise in naming Arsenal’s Abou Diaby and Chelsea’s Lassana Diarra in his squad for the double-header against Lithuania and Austria later this month.

Roma 0 Lyon 0

FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech has called up Nicolas Anelka for the Euro 2008 qualifiers against Scotland and the Faroe Islands.

France coach Raymond Domenech has called up Nicolas Anelka for the Euro 2008 qualifiers against Scotland and the Faroe Islands.

FRENCH champions Lyon fired out a broadside at Champions League rivals on Wednesday, playing with considerable flair to outclass Real Madrid 2-0 in Group E.

Italy coach Marcello Lippi and his France counterpart Raymond Domenech both named unchanged teams for Sunday evening’s World Cup final in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.

France defender Eric Abidal was once hailed as “the new Lilian Thuram” but the full-back claims he is still overwhelmed by the ability of the man who will play alongside him in Sunday’s World Cup final with Italy.

Spain 1 France 3

Lyon striker Sidney Govou has been called up as a replacement for the injured Djibril Cisse in France’s World Cup squad.

AC Milan 3 Lyon 1 (Agg 3-1)

PSV Eindhoven 0 Lyon 1

Liverpool start Peter Crouch tonight, as Damien Duff returns from injury to start on the bench for Chelsea. Here are tonight's Champions League teams.

Tonight's Champions League teams.

YOUNG BOYS Bern playmaker Hakan Yakin, recently struggling with a thigh injury, has been omitted from the Switzerland squad for the games against France and the Republic of Ireland.

TOTTENHAM striker Mido will know today if the club’s appeal against his Chelsea red card is successful.

Premiership clubs today stepped up their quest for new players as Newcastle, Portsmouth and Aston Villa all dived into the transfer market, with England striker Michael Owen poised for a big-money move to St James’ Park.

PSV Eindhoven 1 Lyon 1

Jerzy Dudek will start between the posts for Liverpool as they bid to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Lyon 1 PSV 1

France 0 Switzerland 0

Isabelle Rondeau, Paris

Lyon 7 Werder Bremen 2 (Lyon win 10-2 on aggregate)

OVER the moon after their 3-0 win in Bremen two weeks ago, Olympique Lyon have crashed to earth in the past week and need to regain their poise ahead of tonight's Champions League game against Werder Bremen.

WERDER BREMEN may need to curb a playing style bordering on the reckless when they face ambitious Olympique Lyon in the home leg of their Champions League knockout round clash this evening.

Man Utd 2 Lyon 1

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