Published on : 03/10/2021 – 16:58
After eight consecutive successes, Paris SG conceded their first loss of the season in Ligue 1, Sunday in Rennes (2-0), which punished the ineffectiveness of the Messi-Neymar-Mbappé trio. Five days after a convincing success against Manchester City (2-0) in the Champions League, PSG stumbled when he least expected it.
Under a blue sky, coach Mauricio Pochettino has aligned his eleven type, with Gianluigi Donnarumma, hoping to extend the beautiful dynamic of a collective which is starting to form. But Paris has forgotten the essential in Brittany: to score. Although dominating in the first period, the Parisians multiplied their clumsiness against goalkeeper Alfred Gomis, one of the Rennais in the afternoon. When Kylian Mbappé deceived the Senegalese (68th), his goal was canceled by video arbitration assistance (VAR), for an offside at the start of the action.
This decision was celebrated by the audience at Roazhon Park, who felt that the wind of success was behind their team, as in August 2019 (2-1 victory) or in May 2021 (1-1).
But the Bretons also provoked their luck, by signing a performance full of energy and intensity which ended up erasing the magic of Lionel Messi who lost his first match as a Parisian.
Penalty for Rennes?
The formation of Bruno Genesio scored two goals in quick succession, straddling halftime, with ideal timing for them, “which hurt psychologically” at PSG, as Pochettino acknowledged. First of all, just before the break (45th), by Gaëtan Laborde, who overtook Nuno Mendes to take back the center of Kamaldeen Sulemana.
This defeat, the first away in the Championship since Lorient (3-2) on January 31, does not threaten the stranglehold in the standings of PSG, which keeps six points ahead of its dolphin Lens. But it falls at a bad time, before two weeks of international break, without meeting to play to evacuate this bad memory.
The Bretons almost benefited from a penalty (81st), initially awarded, before Rudy Buquet defeated himself after consulting the VAR. Finally, something was going in the direction of PSG, but it was far too late.
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