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<p>On Saturday Juninho showed why he is the master of the free kick after bringing Lyon single-handedly back into this one, with&nbsp;a clinical display of scoring from the deadball situation.<br>
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<p>While waiting for&nbsp;Inter –&nbsp;Catania&nbsp;to&nbsp;start I decided to turn the dial&nbsp;to TV5 and&nbsp;have a look-see&nbsp;of&nbsp;French&nbsp;Ligue One&nbsp;with Lyon vs. Nice. I&nbsp;wasn’t disappointed&nbsp;as everything wasn’t going&nbsp;Lyon’s way&nbsp;early on and made for&nbsp;entertaining viewing, especially after the home side would need&nbsp;a come from behind win with a Benezma penalty in extra time and some Juninho magic&nbsp;on the other&nbsp;goals.</p>
<p>&nbsp;Nice&nbsp;had the lead early in the 3rd minute on&nbsp;a ball played behind&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympique_Lyonnais">Les </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympique_Lyonnais">Gones</a>&nbsp;center defense&nbsp;where Habib Bamago was perfectly positioned&nbsp;to run unto leaving&nbsp;only the keeper to beat.&nbsp;The&nbsp;visitors would strike again&nbsp;with&nbsp;a second goal in the first 25 minutes, before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juninho_Pernambucano">Juninho</a> and his deadball magic&nbsp;caused French announcers to cry out “très fantastique”.&nbsp; After winning a free kick&nbsp;just outside the visitor’s 18 yard box Juninho stepped forward&nbsp;and scored his first goal&nbsp;by cooly bending the ball round the wall of&nbsp;players and watching it dip into the top corner. Absolutely no chance for keeper <a href="http://www.frenchleague.com/joueur/index.asp?no_joueur=2004">Lionel Letizi</a>, 1 – 2 Nice at the half.</p>
<p>Second half play was end-to-end&nbsp;but the&nbsp;score wasn’t equalized until the 71st minute when once again Juninho was called upon to weave his magic this time from&nbsp;distance (almost the centre circle area).&nbsp;Off another free kick&nbsp;by&nbsp;the Brazilian the ball was played with height and first looked likely to be headed or redirected at goal by a teammate but&nbsp;instead bounced once off the pitch and past the stunned keeper.&nbsp; The final winner&nbsp;for&nbsp;Lyon&nbsp;would come in extra time after a penalty was awarded&nbsp;for a handball in the box. Karim Benezma&nbsp;made no mistake on this one and Lyon walked off the water&nbsp;logged pitch relishing a great victory over their south coast rivals.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For any Serie A fans who are unfamilar with Juninho (very <a rel="attachment wp-att-355" href="http://www.serieatalk.com/juninho-puts-on-free-kick-scoring-clinic-lyon-3-2-nice/352/fourfourtwo-july2008/" title="FourFourTwo-July2008"><div><figure class="external-image"><img loading="lazy" border="0" vspace="10" align="right" width="153" src="/files/2008/09/fourfourtwojuly1a.jpg" hspace="10" alt="FourFourTwo-July2008" height="201" style="width: 192px;height: 230px"></figure></div></a>few I’m sure), and why the intrusion&nbsp;of French football on&nbsp;Serie A Talk, well this is the man&nbsp;who Andrea Pirlo calls his idol, the master at dead ball skills.</p>
<p>In the July edition of FourFourTwo Pirlo (the player the Azzurri look to for freekick perfection) explains his technique&nbsp;known as the “l’ascensore” or the lift, (the ball goes up and then dips quickly) was invented by Juninho. “I started watching how Juninho kicked and tried to learn” said Pirlo.</p>
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<h4>Goal Highlights</h4>
<p>see all five goals in the&nbsp;second&nbsp;video link<br>
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<h4>Related Articles</h4>
<p>frenchleague.com – <a href="http://www.frenchleague.com/ligue1/lireArticle.asp?idArticle=10784">Ederson sounds Nice warning</a><br>
AFP – <a href="http://tinyurl.com/56be7m">Juninho hails Lyon´s character in fightback win</a></p>


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