In advance of our Champions League meeting on Tuesday, YNWA looks at the careers of those who have represented both OL and the mighty reds.

Current double agent
Damien Plessis joined the reds from Lyon on transfer deadline day in August 2007, having impressed with France Under-19's at the European Championships that summer. He has so far made seven senior appearances, having failed to break into the first team in France. The 21-year old midfielder notched his first goal in our 4-2 Carling Cup Fourth Round defeat at Tottenham Hotspur in November 2008.

Hou let the reds out?
Former French national team boss Gérard Houllier was appointed joint Manager of the reds with Roy Evans in July 2008, an arrangement that lasted just four months before Evans quit. He led us to the UEFA Cup, FA Cup, two League Cups, UEFA Super Cup and FA Charity Shield in his six years at Anfield, as well as a joint best-ever Premiership finish of second. In total, he was in charge of the reds for 307 games, winning 158, drawing 75 and being beaten on 74 occasions.

He left by mutual consent in May 2004, enjoying a year out of the game before taking over at Olympique Lyonnais, leading them to their fifth and sixth straight League titles before resigning in May 2007. He had failed to convert their French dominance onto the European stage, going out of the Champions League in the Quarter-finals and then last sixteen. He also led Lyon to the Coupe de la Ligue Final in 2007, where they lost 1-0 to Girondins de Bordeaux, with Czech mates Milan Baroš and Vladimír Šmicer both unused substitutes in this game.

Czeching in
Milan Baroš struck 27 times in 108 reds games after signing from Baník Ostrava for £3.2m. He moved to Aston Villa for £6.5m in August 2005, having helped us to claim the Champions League and the Worthington Cup. He surprisingly rejoined Gérard Houllier when he signed for Olympique Lyonnais in January 2007 in a swap deal for John Carew. He helped them to claim their sixth consecutive Ligue 1 title that season, but he then played less under their new manager, Alain Perrin. He left France after a total of seven goals in 28 outings to join Portsmouth on loan in January 2008, then signing on permanently for Galatasaray that August for €5.5m, where he now plays alongside Harry Kewell.