Substitute Moussa Dembele scored twice as Lyon stunned Manchester City 3-1 to reach the Champions League semi-finals on Saturday. The Fre...
Substitute Moussa Dembele scored twice as Lyon stunned Manchester City 3-1 to reach the Champions League semi-finals on Saturday.
The French outsiders will face five-time winners Bayern Munich for a place in the final.
Maxwel Cornet gave Lyon a 24th-minute lead before Kevin De Bruyne levelled on 69 minutes.
But Dembele restored Lyon’s lead in the 79th minute, just moments after coming on as a substitute, and added the killer blow three minutes from time.
The result was another shocking one in the Champions League quarter-finals after Bayern’s 8-2 drubbing of Barcelona and RB Leipzig’s win over Atletico Madrid.
The semi-final line-up will see two German and two French teams compete, a scenario few saw coming when the competition restarted.
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It was sweet redemption for teams from Ligue 1 and Bundesliga though who were written off even before a ball was kicked in the Champions League after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to the shock result:
No farmers here 😉 #UCL pic.twitter.com/2d7Ij6EUNL
— OL English 🇬🇧 (@OL_English) August 15, 2020
FARMERS LEAGUE 🤡
— Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) August 15, 2020
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @OL
🤫 The critics have already been silenced. Will we see them further embarrassed by a PSG-Lyon climax to the @ChampionsLeague? 🤔 https://t.co/9UDVjBsyBe pic.twitter.com/v3bFYTyE3U
— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) August 15, 2020
Talk to them bro! 👏🏽😄🦁
— Memphis Depay (@Memphis) August 15,...Read more
