What happens when the best defense in the league (Nice, 23 goals) hosts the best attack (Rennes, 63 goals)?
The two teams leave in a draw.
Sharing the points which suits OM, the 2nd, which still hopes to widen its lead over its two pursuers, thanks to a victory at Geoffroy-Guichard - Saint-Etienne - OM was postponed this Saturday due to snowfall in the Forez and will be contested this Sunday at 3 p.m.
In Nice, if the game took a good hour to settle completely, the match between 4th and 3rd finally kept a good part of its promises.
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What you must remember
The Aiglons saw themselves beautiful when Delort unblocked the match and opened the scoring with a header, a few minutes after the hour mark. At the origin of the action, by letting the ball pass, the former Montpellier player is found at the reception of an exterior of the millimeter right foot of Attal (1-0, 67th).
Ten minutes later, Terrier showered the Allianz Arena by equalizing with an uncrossed header, receiving a free kick from the left of Bourigeaud, now the only best passer in Ligue 1 with 11 assists (1-1 , 78th).
At the start, the Rennais, evolving high, had 60% possession of the ball in the first quarter of an hour, but without creating the slightest chance.
On the other hand, Nice came close twice to open the scoring early (4th).
But the curled shot from inside the right of Gouiri, then the outside of the right foot of Delort, full axis, miss their target (4th).
Then, nothing sensational is to report until the break, except this situation of Majer facing Benitez to the left of the Nice goal, but marred by an offside from Rennais, at the start of the action (35th) .
Or this returning free kick from Bourigeaud, from the left, passed quite close to the left post of the Aiglons goalkeeper (44th).
In the second half, change of atmosphere.
Rennes visibly presses the accelerator and passes very close to opening the scoring by Laborde, who is slightly off center on the left, sees his powerful low shot from the right hit the base of the Nice post and pass in front of the goal without further damage (52nd). .
Once the score was 1-1, Rennes, finally incisive, was the most pressing and could have won the bet if Benitez had not opposed a firm hand in his duel against Majer (88th).
The player: Martin Terrier
Rennes' top scorer, Martin Terrier lived up to his reputation by converting Bourigeaud's free kick into a goal (78th minute).
Author of 17 goals in Ligue 1 this season, the center-forward of the Bretons joins the Monegasque Wissam Ben Yedder at the top of the provisional ranking of scorers.
Passed through Lille, Lyon and Strasbourg, Terrier takes on a new dimension in Brittany.
The number: 5
Despite the good point gleaned on the lawn of Nice this Saturday, Stade Rennais sees an end to its series of five consecutive victories which began on February 20.
The statement: Andy Delort
“It's a bit complicated, said the striker nçois at the microphone of Amazon P> rime Video.
We thought we had killed the game and they come back from a set piece.
It was an important match, with important points.
There will be frustration.
It's up to us to get points in Lens.
We knew it would be a good match against a great team.
We are one too..."