Lyon vs Real Madrid Live Stream 22 February 2011

Preamble It would be unthinkable to have the most successful club of all-time elimimated at the first knockout stage, wouldn't it? Well, not exactly. Real Madrid have failed to get past the last-16 for past six years so they would very much be keeping with form if they were to fail to overturn their one-goal deficit against Lyon tonight.

But then they have never had Cristiano Ronaldo before. Madrid's No9 is averaging 74 goals per game - albeit from over 800 shots, when he probably should have passed - and he will be the man Lyon need to stop if they are to cause the shock of the round in Madrid.


Team line-ups in full:
Real Madrid: Casillas; Sergio Ramos, Albiol, Garay, Arbeloa,
Lassana Diarra, Guti, Granero, Kaka, Ronaldo, Higuain.
Subs: Dudek, Gago, Mahamadou Diarra, Raul, Metzelder, Van der Vaart, Mosquera.
Lyon: Lloris, Reveillere, Cris, Boumsong, Cissokho, Toulalan, Govou, Makoun, Pjanic, Delgado, Lopez.
Subs: Vercoutre, Bodmer, Kallstrom, Ederson, Gomis, Tafer, Gonalons.

I wouldn't like to say that Lyon are beaten before the game even starts, but they do have Jean-Alain Boumsong at centre back, which can't be good at all. We're just about to get underway in the Bernabéu.

1 min: The Italian ref Nicola Rizzoli blows his whistle and we're off. Madrid all in white playing from left to right and they're straight onto the attack as Higuain plays in Kaka but the excellent Lloris comes out and smothers his shot.

2 min: Ronaldo's first involvement is to go on a mazy run across the pitch and then pass the ball straight to Lyon's Cesar Delgado. Brilliant.

3 min: Another terrible Madrid pass - this time from Ramos - shows that there may be some nerves in their side. All the pressure is on them. Lyon have nothing to lose really, apart from their place in the Champions League obviously, but they shouldn't worry about that.

Goal! Real Madrid 1-0 Lyon (Ronaldo 5) Madrid have cancelled out Lyon's lead as Guti played a nice ball over the top towards the man known as CR9. He ran onto it and, from a tight angle, shot left-footed through the legs of Lloris. It's a very soft goal for Lyon to concede and the keeper, who is normally excellent, has to hold his hands up.

8 min: So now we sit back and wait for extra-time and penalties. Maybe not. Ronaldo playes it to Kaka on the left. The Brazilian cuts inside two players but curls his shot straight at Lloris, who gathers at the second attempt.

10 min: It's another chance for the man with the most ridiculous haircut in football, but Ronaldo can't keep his header down from Granero's corner and it goes over the bar. Maybe Ronaldo is auditioning for a part in Bugsy Malone? It would be nice to hit him in the face with a pie.

14 min: "He may be a bit of a show-pony, but he is good that Ronaldo. At least three times better than Berbatov, which makes him a steal at £80M. Sort of," writes Gary Naylor. Berbatov is another who could be considered pie-worthy. If you only had one Bugsy Malone-style pie to throw at a footballer, who would you hit?

15 min: Better watch your wife/girlfriend," warns Garry O'Connor. "John Terry not going to like you saying CR9 has a worse haircut." I'll take my chances.

16 min: The goal hasn't really changed anything as far as the game goes. Lyon are still sitting back hoping to snatch an away goal on the break. They look dangerous when they come forward and Ramos is forced to concede a corner as Sissoko pushed into the area. Toulalan then curled one from outside the area but it's harmlessly wide.

21 min: Ronaldo free kick 40 yards out ... and he passes to Granero and his crossed is cleared behind by Cris for a corner. "Re: your descripton of the goal," writes former England cricket coach Duncan Fletcher. "Surely the Lyon goalie keeping his hands down, maybe between his legs, would have been more useful advice." What I meant was that he had to hold his hands up to show that he wasn't holding them down. Or something.

22 min: Gary Naylor has a plan. "I wouldn't throw the one and only pie at a player, I'd wait until Manchester United get a winner in the 99th minute and Sir Alex jumps up behind that little wall and runs down those steps, then SPLAT!" With any luck some of the splatter might hit Gary Neville, or Gareth from The Office as he could also be known.

25 min: Gonzalo Higuain has just missed an open goal. He skipped by Lloris, who had come racing out of his area. He attempted to slide it into the empty net but it came off the inside of the post and across the face of goal. There's then a yellow card for Cris for a foul on Kaka, but Ronaldo blasts the free kick high into the stand.

27 min: Another great chance for Real Madrid and this time Lloris makes a great save from Higuain who tried to curl a low shot into the bottom corner after Kaka has played the ball into his path. He probably should have passed to Ronaldo, who would have had an open goal, but then Ronaldo probably always thinks he should be passed to.

29 min: Ramos and Diarra are both down following a clash of heads which allows us some more pie talk. "Cristiano Ronaldo is certainly on the top of my list for getting a pie, although Raul, Sergio Ramos, and Guti are all a close second," writes Paulo Padilha, who, at a guess, I would say supports Barcelona or Atletico Madrid. " If we were to use one of those gatling guns from Bugsy Malone, would the bullets have to be marshmallows or could they be made out of something a little harder, like lead, for example?"

32 min: With regard to Paulo's email, I'm not sure I can endorse the use of lead bullets in a gatling gun as, in the unlikely event that a Real Madrid player does actually get murdered, I could be considered an accomplice to the crime. I'm not ready for a lengthy prison sentence. Not yet anyway.

34 min: Madrid look really shaky defensively so there is still hope for Lyon. Govou crossed from the right and Makoun mis-kicked inside the area and Casillas gathered. He should have buried that.

38 min: Granero has brought down Delgado, who rolls around the ground like an idiot even though it wasn't really much of a challenge. The ref buys it, though, and shows Granero a yellow card.

39 min: It's another chance for Real as Granero crossed from the right and Higuain, stretching, could only head it wide under pressure from Cris. "Clearly, having to write about Ronaldo is more than your unquestionably unbiased football-loving stomach can handle," writes Hugo Carreira. "Bile flows through the interwebitubes." It's not bile, Hugo, just an inferiority complex.

41 min: Philip Podolsky has put a name on his pie in fancy Roman lettering. "As a profoundly pretentious person, I loath mine to be yet another one of the umpteen emails freshly in your inbox simply saying BJT, but there you go..."

43 min: Kaka, who has looked pretty good so far, goes on a marauding run on the left but Reveillere does really well to shepherd him out of play.

45 min + 1: Lyon have a free kick which Govou takes but it's too close to Casillas who punches clear.

Half time: The whistle goes at the end of what must be considered a positive half for Real Madrid. They have cancelled out Lyon's first-leg lead but should have the game wrapped up. Lyon will feel that, as long as it remains 1-0, they stand a chance off snatching a crucial away goal on the counter. I'm off to slick my hair to one side using the grease from the Guardian Towers chip pan. Shouldn't take too long.

Ronaldo's hair writes Russell Brady. "He's basically sporting the David Bentley cut from 2008: a slicked back 50's cut with a hipster twist. Do you think Cristiano went to his barber's in downtown Madrid and asked for "a David Bentley por favor?"

46 min: We're underway in the second half. In a strange way a Madrid second wouldn't change thing too much. Lyon would still just need one to go through. "Some of the Real Madrid football tonight reminds me of the great teams of the past when they had great players like Puskas, Di Stefano and Gento," writes Derek Rooney. Now they were men who looked like they were in Bugsy Malone.

47 min: Lyon have made two changes at the interval. Boumsong has been replaced by Kallstrom. I'm not sure who the other one is yet.

48 min: It's Lyon who have started the second half on top. Casillas punched a corner clear and when it was crossed back in the other substitute, Gonalons, who replaced Makoun, rose and headed over. Govou was behind him if he had left it.

51 min: "Tell Russell Brady that the CR9inator would surely be asking for "Un David Bentley..." says Simon Frank. "Is it down to me entering my late 30s or is there a never-ending supply of preening, self-important idiots playing the beautiful game these days? Most games I watch nowadays are governed by the fact that I really want so-and-so to lose, rather than by anything more edifying." That's the spirit, Simon.

52 min: Another great chance for Lyon. Kim Kallstrom went down the left and pulled it back to Govou who shot left-footed but it went high and wide from 12 yards.

54 min: Casillas is forced to make a save for the first time in the match. It was Lisandro who shot from distance. It swerved and dipped and the Spanish keeper had to beat it away. Real Madrid counter and Ronaldo feeds Kaka but he shoots wide from 25 yards.

55 min: "Over on ITV Steve Ryder has just informed viewers that Cristiano Ronaldo has levelled the tie against the "French Champions," writes Robert Smithson. "Because of course who the 'Champions' are is dependent on who finishes third in the League." What an idiot. Oh wait, there's more. "I'm afraid you don't escape this tirade against idiocy:

"I wouldn't like to say that Lyon are beaten before the game even starts, but they do have Jean-Alain Boumsong at centre back, which can't be good at all."

Would that be the same Boumsong who was unanimously hailed by the press as being fantastic in the 1st leg and who played a major role in keeping Madrid out? Allez Lyon, even if I am a PSG fan."

58 min: Robert Smithson may have turned against me but Richard Whittall, in an email which I'm fairly certain contains no sarcasm whatsoever, says "This MBM is great. Really great. Who are you again?" I'm the new Steve Ryder.

60 min: Lyon have basically realised that Madrid aren't as good as they think they are and have gone at them this half. Madrid make a chance to try and swing the game back in their facvour. Van der Vaart replaces Granero.

62 min: Kaka, the Fat Sam to Ronaldo's Bugsy, cuts in from the left and tries to find the £80m man in the area but Cris cuts it out and clears.

64 min: Ronaldo is brought down on the edge of the area and this is a good chance for Real ...

64 min: ... but he smacks it straight into the wall and looks at the ground as if the grass is somehow to blame.

68 min: Delgado is show a yellow card for a foul on Albiol. "Steve Ryder may be technically wrong about Lyon's position in the league, but he is quite logical," writes Robin Hazlehurst. "It is the Champions League so anyone playing in it must be champions, mustn't they? And as Lyon are French and playing in the Champions League they must be French Champions. What is wrong with that? We're all winners these days, coming first isn't that much of a requirement." I agree. And I was right about Boumsong. I don't care what he did in the first leg.

69 min: Ronaldo and his yellow boots certainly look the most likely to do something for Madrid. I wouldn't bet against him scoring the winner yet. Or maybe I would. I don't really know what is going to happen.

70 min: Pjanic swings a great free kick into the area and the bald-headed Cris just needed to get a touch on it and he would have put Lyon ahead but he didn't and Casillas gathered. If he had some hair he would have made contact with that.

72 min: Van der Vaart becomes the latest Real player to ignore Ronaldo's pleas and shoots, but it goes over. They're not doing themselves any favours.

Goal!!!! Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon (agg 1-2) It's a beautiful goal by Lyon and Real Madrid need two if they are to avoid going out. Delgado played it to Lisandro who knocked it into the path of Pjanic, who has really come into the game in the second half. He took one touch before rifling it past Casillas with his left foot from eight yards.

77 min: Raul comes on to replace Kaka. Straight away Van der Vaart crosses towards him but Ramos can't direct his header on target.

79 min: Lyon are sitting right back now, which is understandable. Van der Vaart swings in a free kick and Lloris comes and punches away. Good goalkeeping.

83 min: Madrid are really struggling to get through the Lyon defence. All the play is in front of them. Guti tries to chip it a ball over the top towards Raul, but Sissoko gets back to hook it away for a corner, which comes across and Ronaldo gets a slight touch to it which takes it away from Ramos behind him.

84 min: The goalscorer Pjanic comes off to be replaced by Ederson, while Arbeloa comes off for Real Madrid and Mahamadou Diarra comes on.

85 min: Kallstrom is now rolling around on the floor like he's been shot by a real gun, rather than a pie gun. We might see a lot of this in the final five minutes.

86 min: Lovely play from Lyon first from Lisandro, who has been brilliant all night, and the by Delgado who toyed with the Madrid defence before winning a throw. That's right, a throw. Yellow card for Van der Vaart for dissent.

88 min: "I wish Real Madrid had a proper manager who might scream bloody murder at those cocky idiots who tried to go it alone instead of making the easy pass in the first 76 minutes," says Richard Whittall.

89 min: It should be all over. Lyon broke and had three against one. It ended with Lisandro through on Casillas but he almost had too much time and shanked his shot well, well wide.

90 min + 2: It really looks like it's over now and Lloris comes and punches clear another corner. It's another Lyon counter and Delgado goes through on goal from the halfway line but fires his shot over with just Casillas to beat. "The only reason I am emailing in is to continue the recent trend of saying hello from an Aussie stuck in Sydney peak hour traffic reading the Guardian Big Cup MBMs," says Matt Leonard.

90 min + 2: Raul now fouls Cris in the corner and the Lyon man rolls around on the ground which the Real players don't seem to like and all charge over to give him grief.

Full time: Real Madrid are out of the Champions League

Brief Match Reaction,writes John Beaven. "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ." Simon Frank has cheered up somewhat. "I am a miserable @*&$, I know. But this result brings joy to my heart!"

Post-match ramblings: The Champions League final will take place in the Bernabéu this year but Cristiano Ronaldo and co will be watching from the stands (provided they can get a ticket, although surely CR9 must be considered part of the Uefa family?). At least they have stayed true to form going out at the first knockout stage for the sixth consecutive year. £260m doesn't really get you very mush these days, does it? Lyon were well worth their draw tonight (and victory over two legs). In the second half they realised how poor Madrid were at the back and went for it. Somewhat predictably, Real crumbled. That's all from me. Thanks for all your comments. Sorry I couldn't print them all. The last word goes to Paulo Padilha. "I'm sure they're lining up the "cream pies" at the Bernabeu right now, just waiting for Cristiano Ronaldo to put on his pouty face." Everybody loves that man.