Karim Benzema has received all-round praise for his part in helping Lyon to a 2-0 victory over Sochaux last night. The young forward scored a terrific opening goal for les Gones and then laid on Delgado’s late effort…
With seven goals already this season, Karim Benzema’s importance to Lyon was underlined again last night as he put Sochaux to the sword, scoring a thunderbolt of an opening goal then showing the presence of mind to play in Delgado for a late second.
For over an hour Lyon looked puzzled as to how to break their hosts down yet, just when it seemed they had run out of ideas, Benzema picked the ball up 40 yards out, drove at the defence and sent an outstanding shot into the top corner of the net to break their duck and help Claude Puel’s side to their first league win in three.
“It was a good game despite the difficult pitch and the rain,” he told OLTV afterwards, “It was also difficult because we had a good team, Sochaux, placed in front of us. They presented us many obstacles with their defensive unit but we managed to stay focused and unblock the defence.
“In the first period I missed two chances that could have brought goals. In the second half I scored a beautiful goal but I am especially happy because the victory does us a lot of good.”
President of the club, Jean-Michel Aulas, who has valued Benzema at €100 million, praised his young striker. “Benzema played a good match,” he said afterwards, “Curiously, we should have taken the lead in the first half when we were better but it was in the second we scored.”
Aulas finished on a word of caution. “The injuries to Pjanic and Grosso are worrying. They will have a scan tomorrow but there is not good news ahead,” he explained.
Pjanic has since been ruled out for a month while news on Grosso is awaited. There is more positive news for OL as Lloris, Juninho and Ederson are all expected to return to the squad at the weekend.
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