Hugo Lloris is one of the most effective goal of our time, but he also helped the club where he almost started everything: OL.
At the end of the
2007-2008 season, Hugo Lloris signed a contract for 5 years at the Olympique
Lyonnais. He played his fisrt match for this team the 2 august 2008, for the
« trophée des champions », but even with great and decisive saves,
the Olympique Lyonnais losed against Bordeaux in the additional time. By losing
this match, they lost their title witch they were holding since 2002.
At the end of his
first season in the Olympic Lyonnais, Hugo Lloris won the title of the best
goal of League 1. After this great start, Hugo Lloris won’t stop helping OL.
First through the Champion’s League. In the first match, played at Anfield,
Lloris made four saves holding Liverpool to only one goal.
Lyon won the match 2–1. In the second match at Gerland stadium, he
produced stops from shots by Fernando Torres, Dirk Kuyt, and Andriy Voronin in
the first half, then displayed reflexes to deny the Brazilian Lucas Leiva
midway through the second period. Though Lyon conceded late, the team drew the
match 1–1 with a goal from Lisandro López in injury time.
On 8 November 2009, Lloris, alongside Marseille and France's number two
goalkeeper Steve Mandanda each conceded five goals in a thrilling 5–5 draw
between Lyon and Marseille, though most of the goals conceded were attributed
to "slack defending" displayed by both clubs as described by the media
and both managers.
On 20 December, Lloris finished third behind Nicolas Anelka and Yoann
Gourcuff in voting for the France Football 2009 French Player of the Year
award.
In 2010, in the second part of the season, Lloris earned a clean sheet
in Lyon's first leg of its UEFA Champions League knockout round
match against Real Madrid.
Lloris made two saves in the team's 1–0 victory making a finger-tipping
save from a deflected Cristiano Ronaldo shot in the 61st minute and producing a
reflex save on a shot from Gonzalo HiguaÃn three minutes later to keep Lyon ahead
on the scoreline.
Lyon later achieved qualification to the quarterfinals in the
competition after drawing 1–1 in Madrid with Lloris conceding the opening goal to
Cristiano Ronaldo in the 6th minute. It was the goalkeeper's first goal
conceded in over 620 minutes.
A few time later, he won the title of best goal of the Ligue 1 for the
second time.
Ahead of the 2010–11 season, Lloris performed well, despite conceding a
career-high 40 goals in the league as Lyon failed to win the league for the
third consecutive season.
The frustrating season for the club and Lloris himself reached its
zenith on 3 April 2011 following the club's 2–2 away draw with Lloris' former
club: Nice. Despite being up 2–0 heading into injury time, Lyon conceded two
goals within two minutes of each other, an Eric Mouloungui penalty and a goal
at the death from Renato Civelli, allowing Nice to leave the match with a draw.
The end of the season had been left with fustration, Lloris was
transfered at the end of this season to Tottenham. It was a bad day for us
because Lloris will stay in our mind one of the best goalkeeper of Lyon’s
history.
Some of his best stops in 2012:
Best goal ever !!!!!!
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