PSG 5-0 Rennes: Ligue 1 Highlights & Recap

Don’t forget that PSG’s next meeting will be held on Wednesday 10! With a Champions League shock against Athletic Bilbao. So we’ll see you soon

Beyond the offensive festival, Pacho was keen to highlight the clean sheet brought back by the team this evening: “It was a very good match, we played against a very difficult opponent, but we knew how to be effective in front of our goal. We defended well together, it was important. It’s important to continue like this. We reacted well after the defeat in Monaco. We have the characteristics of a team that is moving forward. It shows that the group is there, strong and we must continue like this. »

The reaction of Mbaye, author of his very first goal in Ligue 1: “Scoring at 17 at the Parc des Princes is a childhood dream even if I am still a child. There’s not much to say, it’s incredible and I hope it continues. »

Tamari’s reaction to the Ligue 1 + microphone after the match: “We came here to win, we worked a lot this week. The result is not good, we have to be focused for the next match against Brest. Today, we played against the best, they do a lot of things in the Champions League. It’s not easy to play here. We tried to do something, but we didn’t succeed. »

Could Paris have dreamed of anything better than a manita as a reaction after its defeat in Monaco? Serious and diligent, PSG knew how to show patience to wear down, then explode Rennes. The embers were blown out by Kvara, author of a double, then the flame was kept alive by the young Parisian guard Mayulu, Mbaye, before Ramos remembered the good memories of the staff. Only positives for Paris this evening, which comes down to a small point from Lens.

The intensity has gone down a notch in the last few minutes. Despite the rotations, PSG remains sufficiently practiced and diligent to deprive Rennes of the ball.

Certainly reassured by the turn the meeting took, the Parisian staff took the opportunity to make changes: Ramos took over from Kvara, Ruiz came in in place of Vitinha. Zaire-Emery and Neves will soon follow them to the bench.

Nothing is going well for Rennes. Already warned Jérémy Jacquet, author of a nasty sole on Gonçalo Ramos, is caught again by the patrol. Rennes will finish the match at 11 against 10.

Warmly celebrated by the Park, the Golden Ball makes its entrance onto the pitch. He replaces Lee. Barely arrived when he combines with Kvara! The shot, too crushed, is not likely to surprise Samba who blocks it in front of his line in the center of his cage.

The attacker remains on the ground for a long time after suffering a shock to his ankle from a strike. A relief on the Parisian side, the Georgian makes his return.

New opportunity for Paris, the winger rushes between two defenders and takes a sharp shot towards the left. Samba intervenes!

The Parisian right-back returns and then perfectly accompanies Tamari, found deep by Samba in his lane. The Rennais will have to go elsewhere to approach Safonov’s cage.

It’s off to a strong start for Paris! New Kvara festival on its side which finds the young Titi. The ball is a little behind him, but Mayulu manages to find the target, Samba deflects the trajectory with a tap.

The Parisian midfielder quickly got his foot back on the ball. We started again with windshield wiper sequences, intended to destabilize the Rennes bloc.

Note that the Rennes coach made a change at the break in midfield: Quentin Merlin replaces Djaoui Cisse.

The Bretons are not giving up! They take advantage of a corner to deploy a perfectly executed combination (at the end of which only the goal is missing). Lepaul appears in the right corner of the area, pretends to strike on this retreating cross… it’s Rongier who rushes behind with a powerful but too central strike.

This time, the danger came from the left. Lee pretends to overflow to return to his left foot. He delivers a powerful cross just in front of the goal to Mayulu. The Parisian Titi is a bit too short (in the stands, Désiré Doué believed it)

Served by Kvara at the entrance to the area, the former Lyon player decides to control before hitting… The fraction of a second lost allows the defense to move up to counter his strike. This is the clearest opportunity since the start of the meeting.

Luis Enrique moves around the edge of the field, asking his troops for more movements and permutations to shake up the Rennes block. After a full quarter of an hour, his troops have the ball, but are struggling to be dangerous.

Hindered by the very well-established block of Rennes, very dense in the axis, PSG tries to find its arrows behind the defense. The center of the former Lyonnais is a little too high for Mayulu.

The full axis breakthrough of Zaire-Emery thanks to a sharp and swaying race would have deserved better. He can’t hit, Kvara shifts. After a mix-up the ball returns to the feet of Vitinha who tries his luck from afar. The ball skimmed the right post but Samba was on it.

Kvara combines with Lee on the left. The Korean falls and asks for a free kick not far from the corner post… but the defense is clean. Rennes can break free.

The Parisians are patient, after this first scare, they rely on high recoveries to chain combinations in the left, then right lane. Safe at the moment.

The Rennes moved to the left before being blocked by Pacho… but Neves completely missed his restart. The ball ends up at Frankowski’s feet, he attempts a recovery 25m to the right. It goes above and beyond!

The Rennais launch hostilities through Lepaul in the central circle.

The Rennes players are welcomed by a tifo room concocted by the kop: grumpy reindeer pull the sleigh full of trophies of a Parisian Santa Claus.

The Rennes and Parisian players are in the corridor. They are waiting for the green light to enter the lawn.

We hope not to suffer a return of karma, that the statistical promise will come true. Please note that PSG and Rennes have not left each other 0-0 since September 2010. That is 34 matches with at least one goal! PSG even remains on two victories with 7 goals scored (compared to 2). The nets should shake.

There are still around twenty minutes before the match kicks off. Vitinha, Marquinhos and others carry out passing exercises while the stands slowly fill up.

Distrustful as the Gascons say. Even if it is still undefeated in Ligue 1 at the Parc, PSG must remain on its guard against a team which is more successful than the others in the Parisian den. Rennes won 7 matches against Paris during the QSI era (only Monaco does as well), 4 of these successes were acquired at the Parc.

This is indeed a first start for Safonov in the cages. Note in the middle, that Fabian Ruiz is blowing, it is Senny Mayulu who will play alongside Joao Neves and Vitinha. At the front, Kvara should be positioned at the forefront supported by Lee and Barcola.

In the event of a victory this evening, not only would PSG consolidate its 2nd place and come back to within 1 point of Lens in the standings… but it would at the same time take 4 points ahead of Marseille, 3rd, beaten (1-0) by Lille on Friday evening. That’s always the case.

The Russian goalkeeper should start for the first time this season against the long-toothed Rennais who intend to put an end to Paris’s invincibility at home. You have a good hour left to learn more about him. Take a look at this paper, signed Adrien Chantegrelet.

To get the precious three points and consolidate this runner-up position, Paris will have to do without several executives. To the absences of Désiré Doué, Nuno Mendes, Achraf Hakimi and Beraldo have been added in recent hours those of Lucas Chevalier and Illia Zabarnyi (ill)!

Welcome everyone here. As a humble servant, we will try to make you experience the long-awaited meeting between PSG and Rennes as best as possible. Kick-off at 9:05 p.m.