in the 2009–10 season, lloris remained the club's first-choice goalkeeper and opened the new campaign by recording four clean sheets in the club's first eight matches. in september 2009, he was awarded the unfp player of the month. in december 2009, lloris finished third behind nicolas anelka and yoann gourcuff in voting for the "france football" 2009 french player of the year award. on 16 february 2010, lloris earned a clean sheet in lyon's first leg of its uefa champions league knockout round match against real madrid. in may 2010 he was named, for the second consecutive season, the unfp ligue 1 goalkeeper of the year.