Overview
- The Europa League group-stage game kicks off at 5:45pm BST on Thursday 15 October at the Groupama Stadium and is live on TNT Sports in the UK and Paramount+ in the United States.
- Pierre Sage makes his first return to Lyon as Crystal Palace manager and called the evening a "special" moment because he still has ties to the city and club.
- Lyon announced that Loïs Openda fractured his fibula at Lens and is expected to be out for at least a month, a loss coach Paulo Fonseca said creates a notable attacking gap and may force tactical changes.
- Crystal Palace travel without Jean-Philippe Mateta, Dean Henderson, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Chadi Riad, with multiple outlets publishing the confirmed starting XIs ahead of kick-off.
- Both clubs won their Europa League openers — Palace 4-0 over Lech Poznań and Lyon 2-1 at Anderlecht — and Palace’s recent European rise follows last season’s Conference League triumph and earlier exclusion from the Europa League under multi-club ownership rules.