The 3 most memorable Olympico clashes in history 🔥 | OneFootball

This Sunday evening, Olympique Lyonnais hosts Olympique de Marseille for the third matchday of L1.

A Olympico that we hope will be as impactful and spectacular as the three we're about to present to you...

Fasten your seatbelt and (re)discover the three most memorable Olympicos in history!

OL 5-5 OM, November 2009

Claude Puel's OL hosts Didier Deschamps' OM at Gerland.

The first 45 minutes are already crazy, the score at half-time is 2-2. Souleymane Diawara responded to Lyon's opening goal from Miralem Pjanić, Benoît Cheyrou to the goal from Sidney Govou.

After the break, OM steps up a gear! The Phocaeans take the lead thanks to a goal from Bakari Koné... and even lead 4-2 with ten minutes to go after the goal from Brandão!

What follows is simply epic. OL scores three goals in nine minutes (a double from Lisandro López, a goal from Michel Bastos) and finds itself ahead in the score, 5-4, at the start of stoppage time!

Victory seems secured for Lyon. But after a scramble in the Lyon box following a long throw-in from Laurent Bonnart, OM manages to equalize after an own goal from Jérémy Toulalan.

OM 5-5 OL. The greatest match in the entire history of Ligue 1, for some...

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OL 2-3 OM, September 2024

Almost exactly a year ago, Olympique de Marseille clinched a legendary victory against the rival.

A 3-2 win secured in the very last seconds of the game after a MA-GIS-TRAL goal from Jonathan Rowe... even though OM was playing with ten against eleven since the 5th minute of the game.

The video summary of this legendary Olympico:

OM 1-1 OL, September 2015

Marseille hosts Lyon, who recruited Mathieu Valbuena a few months earlier. The former darling of the Vélodrome becomes public enemy number 1 that night.

A mannequin in his likeness is hanged in the South Bend, the Phocaean defenders stamp him in the duel. Until the expulsion. Just before the break, while OL is leading 1-0 thanks to a penalty from Alexandre Lacazette, Romain Alessandrini tackles Mathieu Valbuena from behind and is immediately sent off by the referee of the match.

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At the hour mark, the game is interrupted for 25 minutes. A flare and a glass beer can have landed in the Lyon penalty area, near Anthony Lopes.

After the deployment of the CRS at the foot of the Bends, the match resumes. And, miraculously, OM manages to equalize, ten against eleven, thanks to a goal from Karim Rekik.

Final score: 1-1. A chaotic evening and a crazy scenario that still remain in mind today...

And for you, which Olympico is the most memorable?

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

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