Eleven, and not one in reply

0-11. Not a scoreline; a confession. Olympique Lyonnais put eleven past Lyon - La Duchère, who had one shot all night. The home side's expected goals came to 0.04, a figure that suggests the shot was taken from the car park.

Fernando Vela ran the show with a perfect ten from the match ratings: two goals, two assists, thirteen key passes. For context, that's more key passes than the entire Duchère side completed passes in their own half. He covered 13.4 km, which is roughly the distance from Stade Balmont to the nearest team that could stop him.

Julio Barone and José Manuel Cifuentes each bagged two, Aoula Diarra matched them, and the substitutes got in on it after the break. Cristian Trelles set up two; Luis scored one and made another. Lyon finished with 34 shots, 19 on target. The Duchère keeper made nine saves and still conceded eleven. That's not a goalkeeper; that's a witness.

Duchère's brightest spark came from the bench. Anderson Vunge, on at half-time, rated 6.5—a number that would have been man of the match if his team had scored. As it was, he spent the evening watching the ball come back at him like a screensaver.

Éric Diabaté took the game's only booking, a yellow card in the 49th minute. You have to admire the commitment to the tackle.

Lyon made wholesale changes at the break, but the system barely mattered. They started 4-4-2, finished 3-5-2, and the only difference was which winger was crossing for whom. Duchère's own reshuffle—three changes at half-time—did little beyond giving the scoreboard operator a rest.

The cup has seen blowouts before, but rarely this lopsided. Duchère's defeat is not a story of a missed chance; it's a story of a chance that never came. The one shot they managed was on target, which is either brave or optimistic. The referee blew the final whistle after 90 minutes. Nobody asked for extra time.