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Ligue 1 Previews: Lyon without Govou & Mensah

Leaders Olympique Lyon will be without forward Sidney Govou (pictured) and defender John Mensah when they visit Grenoble on Saturday.

Govou has been ruled out until the end of the season with a ruptured Achilles while Ghana defender Mensah will be out of action for at least three weeks with a thigh injury.

"It's one more challenge we have to face," coach Claude Puel told sports daily L'Equipe.

"I can bring something to this team. I am ready to play but ultimately it will be the coach's decision," Wiltord told the club's website.

"It's been 10 years. With (Johan) Micoud, Wiltord, (Lilian) Laslandes and (Ali) Benarbia, we had this quality of play, this creative and offensive state of mind," Baup told reporters ahead of Saturday's match between Nantes and Bordeaux.

"Bordeaux's actual team looks much like the one we had back then."

"Although he pushed him lightly, he pushed him," the league's disciplinary commission said in a statement.

Midfielder Yoan Gouffran and defender Marc Planus are doubtful for Saturday's trip to Nantes with groin and neck injuries respectively.