LYON HELD TO STALEMATE
Posted Monday, December 21, 2009 by Football365.com
Lyon's indifferent Ligue 1 form continued as they could only draw at Monaco.
Michel Bastos got Lyon off to a good start but Park Chu-young's equaliser means Lyon now have just two wins in their last 10 league games.
They also finish the weekend 10 points behind leaders Bordeaux with one round of games to go before the winter break.
Bastos put Lyon in front after 22 minutes, beating Stephane Ruffier with a powerful free-kick after Nicolas Nkoulou had fouled Anthony Reveillere.
Ruffier then kept his side in touch, saving from close range after Jean Makoun had been played in by Bastos' lobbed pass.
The equaliser came 10 minutes before the break, Park volleying home well after a neat free-kick worked between Nene, Djimi Traore and Sebastien Puygrenier.
Park then produced a backheel pass to free Nene and his shot was turned behind by Hugo Lloris.
The South Korean could have sent his side into the break 2-1 up but he spooned the ball over after Puygrenier nodded Traore's throw to him.
Five minutes after the restart Ruffier did well to block the ball after Miralem Pjanic's free-kick deflected off the head of Cris.
The action went immediately down the other end and Lloris blocked Yohan Mollo's strike.
Monaco were creating the better chances now with Nene's free-kick finding the side netting and Mollo's header cleared off the line by Sidney Govou.
There was good news for Lyon as Jeremy Toulalan came on for the final 15 minutes after six weeks out with an adductor injury.
But they could not find a winner as Ruffier did well to keep out both Cris' header and, athletically, Cesar Delgado's shot in the last 10 minutes.
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