PSG can rub their hands. The results of the matches played on Sunday, November 7, offer him a place at the top of Ligue 1. Marseille hooked, Nice beaten, the Parisians, winners Saturday in Bordeaux, are now ten points ahead of their dolphin, the RC Lens which toises the other big engines of the championship.
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The Stade Rennes is the other big winner of the day. At Roazhon Park, the evening was perfect from start to finish for an audience ruffled by the performance of the Bretons, already winners of PSG this season. The Red and Black, 4-1 winners of Lyon this time, left only crumbs to their opponents.
For a long time, Les Gones resisted but Rennes finally forced the lock thanks to a Gaëtan Laborde header from a Benjamin Bourigeaud corner just before the break (1-0). The verdict was then without appeal: twelve shots including eight on target for Rennes, a zero scored for Lyon. Not much better at the end of the debates: 25 shots to 6.
Because the Rennes continued their march forward, and quickly took their seats. On a sumptuous opening by Majer, Laborde missed an acrobatic recovery, but the ball came back to the feet of Hamari Traore, who beat Lopes from close range (2-0, 50e).
With the Rennes players backing off a little, OL was able to take a few chances, but Gomis intervened on a free kick from Emerson and in the aftermath, Tait launched Truffert, who resisted the return of Léo Dubois (3-0, 76e). The young lateral, who entered a few minutes earlier, closed the festival with a splendid recovery from the left on a slightly deflected Traore cross (4-0, 76th).
And the penalty obtained and converted by Paqueta in extra time for a slight contact with Nayef Aguerd, did not even save the Lyon honor, marked especially by the image of Houssem Aouar insisting to shoot it (4-1, 90+2).
“We were bad tonight. Collectively. With the ball, without the ball. It wasn’t the Lyon I’ve seen in the last month,” admitted Germany coach Peter Bosz. “I don’t have an explanation. I tried, but I wasn’t in it either,” he added.
Opposite, Rennes coach Bruno Genesio, who did not miss his reunion with his former club, praised the “exceptional state of mind” of his players who remain seven games in a row without defeat. “I’m happy because we won, we keep moving forward, but there is no particular revenge or more intense joy because it was Lyon. It was a game to win, we did it and with the way,” he added soberly.
The Stade rennais (fifth with 22 pts) is three points ahead of its evening opponent (seventh with 19 pts) and finishes the weekend just two points behind Lens, 2nd and winner of Troyes on Friday (4-0).
L’OM sans solution vs Metz at the Vélodrome Kevin N’Doram in the duel with Matteo Guendouzi and Leonardo Balerdi during the match between Marseille and Metz (0-0), Sunday, November 7, 2021. DANIEL COLE / AP
To see the satisfaction of the FC Metz players at the final whistle, we measure the importance of the result won at the Velodrome. Eye-catching, the Messines played much of the second half outnumbered against a Marseille team lacking energy, seventy-two hours after the draw (2-2) obtained against Lazio Rome in the Europa League.
The first surprise was in the Marseille composition, with the return in goal of Steve Mandanda, barred until then in the hierarchy by the Spaniard Pau Lopez, summer recruit of the club. In the absence of their fiery Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli, suspended, the Marseillais started the match in reverse, conceding numerous chances and a goal disallowed for offside, by the video assistance.
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For Marseille, the only real opportunity came, as often, from the feet of Dimitri Payet who found the crossbar in the 22nd minute. But even after the exclusion of Jemerson (56th) for a bad move on the Marseille playmaker, the OM was rough, without consistency. It was even Steve Mandanda who shone, with a duel won in front of Fabien Centonze.
Alexandre Oukidja, the Messina goalkeeper, against Luis Henrique, during the meeting of Metz and Marseille, Sunday, November 7, 2021. DANIEL COLE / AP
The breathless end of the match, and its nine minutes of extra time, will not change anything: OM skates and chains a second 0-0, after that obtained against Paris-Saint-Germain, on October 24. Marseille is fourth in the standings with 23 points, while Metz, unfortunate with two poles hit in the first half, is stuck in last place with 8 points.
Nice gives the second place to Lens
In a match where the spotlight was on Andy Delort, passed from La Mosson to the Nice harbor this summer for ten million euros, OGC Nice made the worst deal of the day (0-1).
Dominated by the conquering team of Christophe Galtier, Montpellier reached the break on a blank score. Herault’s goalie, Jonas Omlin, had just two saves to make on all ten shots in the game in the first act. In the second half, Nice came back with the same offensive intentions. Mario Lemina rattled the bar (54th) before Maxime Estève saved Montpellier after an acrobatic turn by Delort (76th). The people of Nice will eventually pay the price for this lack of efficiency. On the visitors’ only highlight, Florent Mollet opened the scoring in the 80th minute, with a left-footed strike.
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Montpellier leaves the Allianz Riviera pantoise and returns from Nice with the three points. After his superb victory (4-0) against Troyes, Lens takes advantage of this misstep at home to Nice to climb to second place in the Ligue 1 standings.
And by the way The Geoffroy-Guichard stadium sounded hollow. But the surroundings of the stadium were well animated by angry supporters. Four groups protested against the club’s management and its coach. On the field, the St. Petersburg players were looking for their first victory this season, in an empty arena, after the closed doors imposed by the League, following the incidents against Angers, on Friday, October 22, 2021. And it’s done. Although poorly embarked and led by two goals (from Mohamed Bayo and Jason Berthomier), Claude Puel’s men turned the situation around, scoring twice in the very end of the match against Clermont (3-2). Arnaud Nordin, Jean-Philippe Krasso and Saidou Sow are the green scorers. “It feels really good. We believed in it to the end, to the desire. We know that this is only a small end of the road, which is a very long one,” Krasso reacted on Prime Video. Finally, a little air for Saint-Etienne , which goes back to 19th place. The supporters of Saint-Etienne gathered near the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium during the match against Clermont, Sunday, November 7, 2021. PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP
Quickly reduced to ten with the red card of Jérôme Hergault (28th), Lorient lost on its lawn against its neighbor Brestois (1-2). And this, despite the first goal of the season by Adrian Grbic, the Austrian striker of the Hake. For Brest , Romain Faivre and Steve Mounié are the scorers of this Breton afternoon. The Brestois come out of the red zone (17th with 12 pts). Lorient remain on six games without winning while Brest continues on a second victory in a row after dominating Monaco (2-0) last weekend.
Nantes and Strasbourg were drawn (2-2) despite the exclusion of the Alsatian Ludovic Ajorque (51st) and both clubs remain stuck at 18 points. Kalifa Coulibaly scored the first goal of the game, but Habib Diallo equalized just before the break (44th, 1-1). At eleven against ten, Nantes regained the advantage thanks to Randal Kolo Muani (2-1, 49th), but the Alsatians equalized again by Thomasson (68th, 2-2). Eighteen points is also the total of Monaco , unable to win at Reims (0-0). The Monegasques are struggling, they have not scored in three meetings. Imprecise and harmless, the ASM remains on three games without a win, in all competitions, and stagnates in 10th place (18 pts). Azor Matusiwa in the duel with Wissam during the match between Stade de Reims and AS Monaco at the Auguste-Delaune stadium, November 7, 2021. FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP
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