Lyon | 0 - 0 | Ajax Amsterdam |
|---|---|---|
| Anthony Reveillere (56) |  | Eyong Enoh (32) |
| Cris (69) | | Theo Janssen (56) |
| Date | : | Tue, Nov 22, 2011 | Time | : | 20:45 CET |
| Play on | : | UEFA Champions League |
Ajax almost booked their place in the last 16 of Champions League goalless draw after fighting on the way to Lyon.
Both teams had chances to win an entertaining encounter at the Stade Gerland, but after the game will have been the French who were the hardest hit, with visitors in debt with two magnificent saves Kenneth Vermeer the last minute.
The result means that the sides are separated by three points ahead of the final round of the facilities, with the second-placed Ajax needing to avoid defeat at home against the winner of Group D Real Madrid in the first day of six to be confident of progressing.
Lyon can still go through if the Ajax Madrid loses to Dinamo Zagreb group minnows hit a hat full.
The first half started with Ajax Jan Vertonghen pattern of targeting a corner five minutes.
Lisandro Lopez Lyon brought a good save from Vermeer before Anthony Reveillere deflected effort went straight into the clutches of Ajax goalkeeper on 23 minutes.
Moments later Lisandro seemed to have played in Bafetimbi Gomis, but the ball got away from France and forward the opportunity was gone.
The best time of the second half came on 33 minutes when Jimmy Briand allowed to pass Michel Bastos "running through his body before firing a low shot from 25 yards that just went wide.
Lyon committed men forward at the start of the second period, but gaps were appearing in the back and Ajax benefited nearly 50 minutes.
Christian Eriksen of the park was free to work with the target before dismissal for Miralem Sulejmani, whose feet-poke was the goal, but Hugo Lloris saved with his knee.
Ajax were unlucky not to go ahead on 59 minutes when a low shot took a deflection Sulejmani huge Cissokho Aly and cover over Lloris, but it was not enough momentum to take the ball over the crossbar.
Lyon looked listless in attack and tried to remedy that Bastos on 70 minutes with a shot from the left lane Vermeer spilled before Ajax defender cleared.
Ederson entered the battle of Lisandro on 73 minutes and substitute Lyon was quickly in the middle of the action, approaching twice as the hosts began to show a little more urgency.
Ederson also provided the spark moments later, when his career and resulted in the firing trigger in an effort Bastos brilliant curling from the left, which brought a flying one-handed save from Vermeer.
Lyon was a cry for a penalty in the final minute when Ederson fell to a challenge in the area but the referee stopped the game, and when the ball broke on the edge of the box Yoann Gourcuff fired a shot that was distressing wide.
The hosts last chance came and went like 90 minutes Alexandre Lacazette marked when accused by the right and fired a shot that seemed destined to the upper right corner to Vermeer intervened with another great stop.
Lyon vs Ajax Amsterdam Last 5 match
| Lyon | Ajax Amsterdam |
| Nov 18, 2011, O. Lyon 1 - 2 Stade Rennais | Nov 19, 2011, Ajax 2 - 2 NAC |
| Nov 6, 2011, FC Sochaux 2 - 1 O. Lyon | Nov 6, 2011, Utrecht 6 - 4 Ajax |
| Nov 2, 2011, O. Lyon 0 - 2 Real Madrid | Nov 2, 2011, Ajax 4 - 0 Dinamo Zagreb |
| Oct 29, 2011, O. Lyon 2 - 0 AS Saint-Etienne | Oct 29, 2011, Roda 0 - 4 Ajax |
| Oct 26, 2011, AS Saint-Etienne 1 - 2 O. Lyon | Oct 26, 2011, Roda 2 - 4 Ajax |
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