Ligue 1: Lens Draw at Rennes After Early Red Card

Like their coach, Lens and Rennes leave good friends at the end of the closing match of the sixth day of Ligue 1. In this meeting without any purpose (0-0), the Rennais will be able to feed big regrets, since they have evolved in numerical superiority during the entire match. Unless it is the Lensois, who have never given the impression of being 10 against 11 and were much superior in technical ease as in generosity. It is therefore a good point taken by the Lensois, who remain in front of Rennes in the ranking, while the Bretons are moving in with a third draw in four days.

The last poster of the sixth day of Ligue 1 almost turned to vinegar shortly after kick -off, when Jonathan Gradit came to obstruct Seko Fofana in the position of last defender. Light contact but zero hesitation for the referee, who sent a red card to the Lensois player (1st). Behind, the Rennais should have taken the opportunity to take up the ascendant on their opponents, at least to wear. But, apart from attacking the second period or on too rare frank situations, you have never felt superiority in the Breton ranks. We would even go so far as to assert that their service will have been insufficient given the circumstances, which is more at home.

The opposite of blood and gold, which played as if nothing had happened, taking advantage of the incessant races of Ruben Aguilar and the talent of Florian Thauvin to carry the danger on the cage of Brice Samba, without ever closing the game, therefore. So much so that a Lensoise victory would not clearly have been stolen. As proof, Mamadou Sangaré almost scored the goal of the season, with a free kick drawn from the central round (26th), before Samba took out the stop that must be against Matthieu Udol (27th) then is saved by his post on a head by Adrien Thomasson (58th). Morgan Guilavogui, too, had balls to reward the efforts of his team on Thauvin caviars (65th, 67th).

On the Rennes side, which logically wiped the whistles of its audience, the best situations were signed by Esteban Lepaul. He too touched the post on a pivot strike (71st), while his acrobatic returned probably deserved better with regard to the tempted gesture (84th). But Habib Beye’s men were not protagonists enough in this match that reached out to them. They are certainly undefeated for four days of Ligue 1, but should never have been so abused at 11 against 10. For them, a success would have looked like a heist. That is to say.