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Player Ratings AS Monaco 0-3 Lyon 2019 from the French newspapers | How did Lyle Foster play?

Young South African forward Lyle Foster was chosen to lead the line for AS Monaco in their season opener against Lyon last night. With Radamel Falcao, Keita Balde and Stevan Jovetic all unavailable, Jardim gave young Foster his league debut. However the teenager had a game to forget, and was hooked at half time for Gabriel Boschilia.

Here are the player ratings for ASM vs OL from French paper L’Equipe. Lyle Foster got a 3/10, but he wasn’t the only one- most of his Monaco team mates didn’t fare too better either.

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Monaco vs Lyon 0-3 Highlights 2019 Fabregas Red Card Dembele Depay Tousart Goals Video

Monaco vs Lyon 2019 (ASM-OL 2019)

Final score and result:- Monaco vs Lyon 0-3 (Dembele, Depay, Tousart)

Stade Louis II- 9 August, 2019

Cesc Fabregas is red carded for Monaco as Lyon beat them 3-0 in the French season opener. A game between the teams with the second and third biggest budgets in French football, and it went the way of the former.

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Biggest budgets in French Ligue 1- How much money can clubs in France spend?

On the eve of the French 2019/20 season kicking off, here is a nice little infographic from the local papers that details the 10 biggest budgets in Ligue 1.

Who has the biggest budget in Ligue 1 ?

Not surprisingly, it is Paris Saint-Germain, with a whopping 530 million euros. The next biggest is Olympique Lyonnais with 310 million euros.

Monaco’s budget, at 220 million euros, is the third biggest, while Lille are surprise packages in fourth with 120 million euros. Marseille come 5th with 110 million euros, while Saint-Etienne are in 6th with 70 million euros.

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