PSG will have to wait to regain control of Ligue 1. Opposed to Rennes this Saturday evening at the Parc de Princes (9:05 p.m.), the capital club will not be able to become leader of the championship again at the end of the 14th day. If Olympique de Marseille, beaten by Lille and Ethan Mbappé on Friday evening (1-0 defeat), was unable to take this seat, RC Lens, for its part, did not miss the mark to keep it on the pitch of FC Nantes by recording a fifth victory in a row.
First frustrated at the start of the match by Anthony Lopes, solid in front of Malang Sar (6th) and Odsonne Édouard (13th), the Sang et Or waited until the half-hour mark to take the advantage. And it took the talent of a man to resolve the situation. Already decisive four times in November (2 goals, 2 assists), Florian Thauvin only needed a small ball in the area, sent to a distant cross from Ruben Aguilar, to open the scoring with a superb cross header at the penalty point (0-1, 34th).
Saïd offers victory to Lens
But the Northerners did not have time to take advantage of their lead. Barely 120 seconds later, the wisp Mathis Abline provokes on the left side of the area and cracks the co-best defense in the championship. Pierre-Ismaëlo Ganiou grossly misses his intervention on the young Nantes striker and offers a penalty which the Moroccan international Youssef El-Arabi manages to transform in two stages (1-1, 36th).
In the second period, the Nantes residents set a false rhythm which the Lensois failed to counter. The minutes pass, the actions are lacking and we are heading straight towards a draw. Before Wesley Saïd appeared in the last minutes. A few moments after seeing his goal disallowed for offside (77th), the striker trained at Stade Rennais definitively silenced La Beaujoire by cutting a cross from Matthieu Udol at the far post to restore the advantage to his team (1-2, 81st).
Leaders, the Lensois can take a breather. Stuck in the relegation zone with two small victories since the start of the season, FC Nantes could still fall in the standings after the bottom-of-the-table clash between Auxerre and Metz at the Abbé-Deschamps stadium this Sunday.
