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Roazhon Park can roar with pleasure again.
After three unsuccessful matches in L1 (2 draws, 1 defeat) Rennes relaunched themselves in the race for Europe in this crucial match against OM (2-0).
Undefeated in L1 (3 wins in 3 matches) since his arrival on the OM bench, Jean-Louis Gasset therefore experiences his first defeat in the championship.
The second of the week after the one, without consequence (4-0 in the first leg) conceded Thursday to Villarreal (3-1) in the round of 16 of the Europa League.
In the ranking, Rennes (8th) joins OM (7th) who have the same number of points.
Certainly a little blunted by their match in Spain, the Marseillais had difficulty changing pace and accelerating.
Rennes opened the scoring with a nice move between Martin Terrier and Amine Gouiri.
Terrier scores his 6th goal in L1 this season (1-0, 21st).
Steve Mandanda then proved decisive against his former team, on a strike from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (26th).
Martin Terrier who opens the scoring for Rennes against Marseille 🔴⚫️
This is his 50th goal in the Rennes jersey 🔝#SRFCOM |
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In the second period, the Rennes goalkeeper was saved by his post on Aubameyang's free kick (70th).
The ball returns to Moumbagna's feet, who, surprised, misses his recovery.
OM, who were much better, missed their chance.
Because in its first real acceleration of this second half, Rennes manages to destabilize the Marseille defense.
Bamo Meïté catches Adrien Truffert in the area.
Benjamin Bourigeaud celebrated his 300th match in the Rennes jersey in the best possible way, by converting the penalty (2-0, 76th).
Out of inspiration and fuel, OM fell back into their mistakes away from home.
Rennes is definitely not working for him.
On January 21, the Breton team qualified for the Coupe de France after an interminable penalty shootout (9-8, 1-1).
“It was important to win today to get back up in the standings.
We were frustrated to have been caught in Lille on Sunday when we were leading 2-0.
We all did the work together.
We have a complicated start to the season, the final sprint is going to be just as difficult, we will have to give our all,” underlines Benjamin Bourigeaud at the microphone of Canal + Foot.
“We missed a lot of things,” admits Jonathan Clauss.
We have one match after another, it's not an excuse but it's starting to take a toll on our bodies.
It's no worse that it happened before the break.
We will rest and work to correct what went wrong.
I'm going to work with the French team and I know that those who stay will work here.
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