Olympique Lyon 3 - Real Madrid 0

Lyon: Coupet; Reveillère, Cris, Caçapa, Berthod; Tiago (Pedretti 85'), Diarra, Juninho Pernambucano; Wiltord (Govou 80'), Carew (Fred 72'), Malouda. 4-3-3.
Madrid: Casillas; Michel Salgado, Iván Helguera, Sergio Ramos, Roberto Carlos; Pablo García, Gravesen (Guti 61'); Beckham, Baptista; Robinho, Raúl. 4-2-2-2.

Goals:
1-0. 21. Carew. Glancing header through hands of Casillas from Juninho free kick.
2-0. 26. Juninho. Curled long free kick through defensive wall into corner of net.
3-0. 31. Wiltord. Got on end of Reveillère's pass in to sweep shot past Casillas.

Real Madrid fell to their second defeat in four days, Gerard Houllier's Olympique Lyon catching them out with three goals in a ten minute period in the first half. Juninho was the man who did the damage, his free kick in the twentieth minute being met by ex Valencia striker John Carew, whose glancing header deflected the ball enough to prevent Casillas from stopping it enter the net. And after Baptista had deflected a Roberto Carlos shot onto the post and Raúl had failed to beat Coupet on the rebound, another Juninho free kick found a gap in a badly organized defensive wall.

Worse was to come though, and Wiltord added a third on the half hour mark after a good team move ended with the ex Arsenal forward taking a return pass from Reveillère to sweep a shot past Casillas. And it could well have been four had Casillas not stopped a Juninho penalty after Salgado tripped the Brazilian midfielder shortly before half time.

Real Madrid at least improved after that, Robinho forcing a corner out of Coupet before the break and the keeper saving from Baptista, Roberto Carlos and Raúl after the restart. Luxemburgo was missing Zidane and Ronaldo, the former injured and the latter serving out a two match suspension from last season, and he eventually turned to his eternal replacement Guti. He added some spark to the attack, but the game by then was over and Lyon themselves could have scored again in the final minutes.

Looking on the bright side the result was not a complete disaster, Madrid lost by exactly the same result against Bayer Leverkusen last season in the opening match and still qualified for the final phase (although Camacho left soon afterwards). But the warning bells are there, and Luxemburgo has to get his act together quickly if he is to avoid following in the footsteps of Camacho, García Remón and many others before them.