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The French Cup Final is tonight. Plenty of streaming sites will be showing this.

Lyon v FC Quévilly (8:45 French time)
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Olympique Lyonnais return to the Stade de France for the second time this month as they take on third-tier surprise-package US Quevilly in the final of the Coupe de France.

Saturday, April 28

Coupe de France final, Stade de France, kick-off 20:45 CET

Olympique Lyonnais v US Quevilly

Rémi Garde's Lyon side are looking to banish the memory of their Coupe de la Ligue final defeat to Olympique de Marseille just two weeks ago and get their hands on a first trophy since 2008, when they overcame Paris Saint-Germain to win the Coupe de France.

This has been a season of transition for OL, with Garde forced to work on an inferior budget to that of his predecessors in the Stade de Gerland dugout. With qualification for the Champions League via a top-three finish in Ligue 1 now looking unlikely, only a victory here will enable Lyon to label this campaign a success. Garde, who played for Strasbourg in their 1-0 loss to PSG in the 1995 final showpiece, knows that all the pressure is on his team against a Quevilly side who are looking to become the first third-division club to win the trophy.

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"We never turned up in our first final, so we don't want to let this one pass us by," said the 46-year-old. "We have a Coupe de France to win. This week the players have appeared calm but also determined. We always have one eye on our opponents when we prepare for a game. But we have played more than 50 games this season and we always have certain principals and ideas that we look to put into practice. I have heard the Quevilly players say they are more comfortable coming up against teams from a higher level so that just makes us even more wary of them."

Four times winners of the Coupe de France in the past, Lyon know what it is like to beat lower-tier teams in this season's competition, having eliminated fourth-tier Lyon-Duchère and Vendée Luçon as well as third-division high-fliers Gazélec Ajaccio in the semi-finals. But they have also proven their credentials by knocking out Bordeaux and winning 3-1 against Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes in the quarter-finals.

And OL - for whom Yoann Gourcuff could start with Michel Bastos ruled out because of a back injury - will not be complaining that they have conceded the limelight to Quevilly in the build-up to the final in Saint-Denis. French football romantics will be backing le Petit Poucet, the Normandy club from the Rouen suburb of Petit-Quevilly.

Cup history

If Quevilly - who currently sit 14th in the Championnat National and are not yet safe from relegation - were to win, the shock would be felt throughout the footballing world, but this is a club with a proud history in the competition and with enough players with experience of the professional game that will ensure they are not fazed by the occasion. Despite holding amateur status, the club has 17 players on it's books who make a living from the game, mostly via full-time federal contracts. Many of those have come through the academies of Ligue 1 clubs, including Zanké Diarra, the brother of Marseille and France star Alou, who started his career at PSG.

Quevilly were runners-up to Marseille in the final way back in 1927. Fans of a certain vintage will recall them beating Lyon in the last 16 in 1968, while they reached the semi-finals in 2010 before losing to PSG. This year they have beaten Marseille in extra time in the quarter-finals and Rennes in the last four.

"People in France like to see the little one beating the giant. We know we will have the backing of a lot of people but we need to be careful," warned Quevilly coach Régis Brouard. "It gives me great pride to be leading my team here. I am proud of the work and effort put in by the players. Who would have thought a town of 22,000 people could have a team in a final at the Stade de France?"

Probable teams

Lyon: Lloris; Réveillère, Cris (c), Lovren, Cissokho or Dabo; Gonalons, Källström; Lacazette, Gourcuff, Lisandro; Gomis

Quevilly: El-Kharroubi; Vardin, Weis, Beaugrard (c), Vanoukia; Diarra, Jouan; Laup, Valéro, Capelle; Colinet
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Great stuff thanks you see I´d completely forgotten, clashes with the voice which my 5 year old really wants to see, think I will try to get a stream and just turn the sound off keep one eye on it. What colours do Quevilly play in?
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DO you give them much of a chance how good are Lyon? Obviously I know they are one of the top sides in France and I read what you´ve posted above but are they missing key players etc
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Lyon should thrash FC Quévilly really, but I'd say it really is 50/50. Lyon are so unpredictable this season. They went out of the Champions' League without even a whimper against Nicosia, and then everyone though that was that. They then went on un unbeaten run which brought them back into things (i.e. a 3rd place in the French "Ligue" which would at least take them into the qualifying rounds of next season's CL). They then lost hopelessly against Marseille (who are struggling even more than Lyon this season) in the French "Ligue" Cup and then lost to Toulouse in an important league game. Their last "Ligue" match was against Lorient last week. How they managed to win that one 3:2 is beyond me.
Lyon have got some very good players but they've ben blowing hot and cold all season. Lisandro is a world-beater on his day, but can go missing. Gomis has scored a fair few this season but isn't too consistent either. The Brazilians Bastos and Ederson have been injured and/or disappointing with flashes of brilliance from Bastos. Briand is a hard-worker but lacks the killing touch in front of goal. Lacazette is having his first real season and could become as good as Benzema, he's that good IMO! Lyon's midfield is lacking bite (where have I seen that before?) Gonalons is good but still a little young. Grenier is also a very promising player but inconsistent 'cos hés young too. Gourcuff has been a real disappointment. He cost a lot of money and has never really delivered. He, too, has been injured a lot, but his injuries, I think, are as much in his head as in his legs! Gourcuff may start tonight. He'll have a lot to prove (his place in the French national squad for this summer could depend on the final few matches of the season), so will he cope with the pressure which will be on his shoulders? The Lyon defence has been shaky to say the least. Cris, probably the last player still present of THE great Lyon team(s) of the past, is more than on the way out. And then there is Loveren, Koné and Umtiti who are all quite or very young and also inexperienced, which is why Quévilly have got more than a chance tonight.
Quévilly play some very attractive football. The Ligue 1 teams they knocked out, they knocked out not through luck, but because they played the better football.
It should be a fascinating final ...
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Lyon still need a second goal. Quévilly aren't out of this yet.
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Quita an enjoyable final, I thought. Lyon played well in the first half but their finishing let them down again. (Where have I heard that before? ) Quévilly came back into things in the second half but didn't quite have enough in the final third of the park with Lloris having very little to do in the end.
Nice scenes at the end of the game. Quévilly had the whole crowd for them apart from a mere 10,000 Lyon fans (there were 25,000 Lyon fans in the "Ligue" Cup final against Marseille two weeks ago). Cris, the Lyon captain, invited the Quévilly captain to go up for them to take the Cup together. Of course he went up but understandably he looked more than gutted.
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