Gary Neville’s first game as a manager could see him take Valencia into the knockout stages of the Champions League. Now that wouldn’t be too shabby a way for the best pundit in English football to kick off his career as a head coach! We’ll have build-up and team news right here before full text commentary of the game at the Mestalla.

Champions League / Group Stage

Estadio de Mestalla / 09.12.2015

Valencia CF

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Olympique Lyonnais

M. Cornet(37')
A. Lacazette(76')

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ByTom Bennett

Updated 09/12/2015 at 21:39 GMT

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The final whistle goes to seal a 2-0 win for Lyon. The French side finish bottom of the group despite the win, while it's hardly the ideal start for Gary Neville as Valencia manager. He will at least have the Europa League to look forward to in the second half of the season, but this evening promised so much more for Valencia.

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There will be three minutes of added time, but this game is essentially already over.

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Valencia are still pushing forward, but Piatti's clever floated pass won't quite drop for Alcacer.

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Cornet breaks, but Lacazette has been taken off and there's nobody up with the winger to support him. That counter-attacking threat when the striker was on the pitch was hugely impressive and it's hard to see how Lyon have struggled so much this season.

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The second Lyon goal has knocked the stuffing out of Valencia. The Spanish side haven't been bad this evening, but they have struggled to break the visitors down in the second half.

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Abdennour heads over the bar from a Valencia corner and with that probably goes Valencia's remaining hope of an unlikely comeback.

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And news comes through that Gent are now back in the lead against Zenit, so it's going to take a quite ridiculous swing for Valencia to reach the knockout stages from this position.

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GOOOAAALLL!!! Alexandre Lacazette makes it 2-0, bursting clear on the counter-attack, holding off the last man and picking out the bottom corner with a classy finish. Is that game over?

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Parejo snatches at a shot as a ricochet falls to him inside the box, but his effort flies agonisingly wide of the far post.

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It's a terrific game now. Valencia are throwing bodies forward in search of the goal they need to set up a grandstand finish, but Lyon are ruthless on the break.

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Ghezzal, who is only just on as a sub, bursts into the box after great work by Lacazette on the break, but Jaume makes a crucial save.

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Again it's Cornet and Lacazette who team up the break, but Valencia crowd the pair out.

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