Bad Boy of Italian football Francesco Totti opened the scoring for the visitors giving Gerard Houlier’s men a mountain to climb. On twenty-two minutes the striker scored his twenty-first goal of the season with a header.

Lyon are not used to being beaten at home and continued to create and miss chances. Misses that were rued when Mancini danced into the Lyon box with a wonderful exhibition of individual skill and thumped the ball in to the top corner of the goal. Effectively ending the tie before half time.