Ligue 1: Paris stopped in Rennes, Marseille outclassed in Lille
End of the series for Paris: beaten in Rennes 2-0, Lionel Messi and his teammates conceded their first defeat of the season in Ligue 1 on Sunday while Marseille, orphaned by Bernard Tapie, slipped to 5th place after his logical defeat at Lille 2-0.
PSG mute and manhandled
A goal just before the break, another just after. Dominating but unable to stand in the first period, the Parisians were punished by the goal of the season from Gaëtan Laborde. The former Montpellier has beaten Nuno Mendes to take over a center from Kamaldeen Sulemana (1-0, 45th).
Barely out of the locker room, the Parisians cashed a second but by Flavien Tait (2-0, 46th), served by Laborde, again him.
Five days after his first but in the Parisian jersey against Manchester City in C1, Lionel Messi did not repeat, the fault in particular in the transverse which stopped his free kick in the 31st minute.
With this setback after eight consecutive victories, the Parisian leader sees his lead over Lens reduced to six points. For its part, Rennes ends a week after its heroic success against Vitesse Arnhem in the Europa League Conference Thursday (2-1).
OM bereaved and overwhelmed
Photo broadcast on the screens of the Pierre-Mauroy stadium, black armband for OM players, the shadow of Bernard Tapie hovered over the Lille-Marseille match. But the Olympians, deprived of Dimitri Payet, could not honor the memory of their former president, who died on Sunday, with a victory.
Jonathan David confirmed that he was now a formidable scorer by scoring a new double (28th, 90 + 5). After a sluggish start to the season, the reigning French champions are back to 8th place with 14 points, the same total as their opponent of the day, now 5th. The overwhelmed Marseillais, who finished the match at 10 after the exclusion of Cengiz Under (77th), once again prove their inconstancy.
Monaco on fire to Louis-II
The Monegasques had won only once at the Louis-II stadium this season. Faced with weak Bordelais, the men of Niko Kovac have finally regained their efficiency at home and have a third success sounded.
The former Girondin Aurélien Tchouaméni, summoned again in Blue this week, opened the scoring (36th) and initiated the action of the second goal signed Aleksandr Golovin (2-0, 48th). Ben Yedder was responsible for transforming a penalty (3-0, 63rd) into force, his fifth goal of the season.
Angers on the wire
Long hung and weighed down in particular by a blunder on a release from his goalkeeper Paul Bernardoni, Angers snatched the victory 3-2 in added time against Metz (18th), thanks to Stéphane Bahoken. The SCO, which was also able to count on one but of its nugget Mohamed-Ali Cho (17 years), climbed to fourth place.
In Lorient, Clermont (15th) opened hostilities with the inevitable Mohamed Bayo. But Julien Laporte allowed the Bretons to save a point at Moustoir, which does not prevent them from downgrading to 7th place, ahead of Nantes.