Lyon coach Bruno Genesio insists they can compete with Europa League rivals Roma.

The Giallorossi face the Ligue 1 side at Parc OL tomorrow.

"We're a long way from the podium in the League," Genesio acknowledged in his pre-match Press conference. “We hope to repeat what Sevilla did last season, but first we have to deal with Roma.

“Winning the Europa League is very difficult, this is a difficult draw but we have the ambition to play two very good games. We respect Roma, but we want to cause them problems.

“The game of the season? Definitely so far, yes. We'll give our all to overcome Roma.

“Did we want to avoid Roma and Manchester United? That's difficult to answer, Roma and Manchester United are two strong teams. We want to go through and to do that we'll need to beat them.

“We've watched videos of Roma and we'll try to do our best. Roma are coming off two defeats in a row and will want to react, we'll have to try and stop them."