Continuation of the 21st day of Ligue 1 at Roazhon Park, where Stade Rennais, fifth with 31 points (9 wins, 4 draws, 7 losses), received the Girondins de Bordeaux, currently seventeenth with 17 units and a poor record of 3 wins, 8 draws and 9 losses. In great difficulty in recent weeks, the Breton club has emerged from three defeats in a row in the league, not to mention its elimination from the Coupe de France against Nancy, resident of Ligue 2. Dynamics that are just as worrying for Bordeaux residents in crisis with in particular the setting away from several executives including Laurent Koscielny. Eliminated in Brest in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France, the Girondins also remained on two straight losses in L1.
For this meeting and with the ambition to emerge from a certain torpor, Vladimir Petkovic therefore lined up a 4-2-3-1 where M’Baye Niang, holder in L1 for the first time in over a year, started at the tip of the Gironde attack. For his part, Bruno Genesio, deprived of Gomis, Traoré, Aguerd or even Sulemana (CAN), opted for a 4-4-2 with the Terrier-Laborde duo present on the front of the attack. Under the eyes of 5,000 spectators, a direct consequence of the gauges linked to the health context, the Rennais quickly took control of the game and proved to be dangerous. Served by Doku, Terrier saw his recovery countered, in-extremis, by Gregersen (6th). Jostled from the start, the Girondins suffered the collective control of the Rouge et Noir and after another clear chance from Laborde, cutting with a header at the near post (23rd), Rennes was logically going to take the lead.
A waltz in six beats!
On a ball that was difficult to repel by the Bordeaux defense, Martin subtly struck and shifted Terrier who concluded victoriously with a point-blank strike with his right foot (1-0, 33rd) to offer himself his tenth goal in Ligue 1. lead in the score, Stade Rennais continued to set too fast a pace for the dying Girondins (no shot on target during the first act). Just before the break, Bourigeaud even managed to break with a splendid curled free kick, leaving Costil unmoved (2-0, 43rd). On returning from the locker room, the face of the meeting remained the same and to make matters worse, the young Sissokho, behind Martin, received a second yellow card and left his partners at ten (50th).
In numerical superiority, Rennes even thought to kill all suspense but Laborde, with a header, finally saw his goal disallowed for an offside position (52nd). Amorphous, the Bordelais offered nothing and were definitely going to sink at the end of a new high-flying collective movement in Rennes. Just entering the game, Truffert, well offset by the other new entrant Majer, allowed his people to take off. In control in the last moments, Stade Rennais even completed its success thanks to Guirassy’s double (89th, 90 + 2nd). With this result, Bruno Genesio’s men return to the foot of the podium before heading to Clermont. For its part, Bordeaux sinks and remains stuck in a worrying 17th place. Next meeting in Strasbourg during the 22nd day of Ligue 1.
The official line-ups at kick-off
The XI of Stade Rennais
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The XI of the Girondins de Bordeaux
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