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It's time for French Ligue 1 football and the season starts this weekend with a match on August 8^th. The game will be on French soil, at the Stade Leon-Bollee for this opening game. The Lions, already seven time champs, are revved up to take on Le Mans, but they are missing two important players – Juninho for one – the 34 year old Brazilian leaving his team for Quatar. Then we have Karim Benzema missing as well, transferred to Real Madrid from Spain for approximately forty one million pounds with incentives. Will the Lions be able to function without their star striker? Get your membership right here on oleolefootball.watchlive.net to find out.

Lyon has a grand total of seven wins between 2002 and last year, but they were only able to make third in the rankings last season. It was Bordeaux that ended up on top of the French Ligue 1 standings, with Marseille, long-time rivals of Bordeaux that ended up in second place. The manager for The Lions, Claude Puel, has decided to bring in Aly Cissokho and Michel Fernandes Bastos. Without Juninho and Karim Benzema he'll need it. Also he's loaned Portsmouth Frederic Piquionne so as far as strikers it looks like he'll be relying on Lisandro Lopez and Bafetimbi Gomis.

As for Le Mans, they were way down on the table last year with only forty points after 34 games were over. Their ranking was 16^th, which was nearly twice as bad as the previous season where they ended up ninth, still not in the best of places. However, the friendlies before the start of the season showed marked improvement . So, the question is. Does the improvement of Le Mans and the loss of key players for the Lions mean an evenly matched game this weekend? Find out with your membership. Sign up today for high quality video live from the game right here on oleolefootball.watchlive.net.

Posted: 4th April 2009

Watch Le Mans vs Lyon live football online at oleolefootball.watchlive.net, your home on the net for live streaming Ligue 1 soccer matches. As a member you will be able to watch live Olympique Lyonnais matches on the net each and every week of the Ligue 1 campaign. Lyon were able to hold serve at home in week 29 and were able to hold on to first place in the log. Soccer channel live streams of this Ligue 1 match will get underway from the Stade Leon-Bollee this coming Saturday the 4^th April 2009 at 18:00 GMT.

In week 29 Le Mans fell on the road to Auxerre by a score of 2-0 at the Stade l'Abbe-Deschamps. As a result of their loss the side managed by Daniel Jeandupeux are in 14^th place of the league table with 32 points and sit 1 point behind 13^th place Valenciennes and 2 points ahead of 15^th place Nancy. Their 33 points are the product of 8 wins, 8 draws and 13 losses with 33 goals scored and 41 conceded.

Lyon were winners at home last week as they held serve over Sochaux by a score of 2-0 at the Stade Gerland. That win allows the side managed by Claude Puel to maintain a 1 point lead over 2^nd place Olympique Marseille. Lyon have 56 points which are the product of 16 wins, 8 draws and 5 losses with 38 goals scored and 21 conceded. It was a huge win for the 7 time defending French champions as they were able to bounce back nicely from their loss at home to Auxerre the previous week.

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