Marseille French midfielder Matteo Guendouzi scored both goals in a 1-1 draw at home to Rennes in Ligue 1.
Nicola Toukat
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Marseille midfielder Matteo Guendouzi scored both goals to keep them top of Ligue 1 in a 1-1 draw at home to Rennes on Saturday.
Guendouzi put together past homekeeper Pau Lopez to give Rennes the advantage in the 26th minute, but the former Arsenal player redeemed himself with a header seven minutes after half-time past former Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda. .
Mandanda warmly welcomed the former Marseille skipper’s first match in 15 years at the Velodrome before leaving for Brittany in the summer.
“He was very good, very calm, but emotionally very difficult,” said Mandanda Rennes coach Bruno Genesio, who has played 613 games for Marseille.
Ahead of the international break, Marseille remain undefeated with six wins and two draws to top Ligue 1 but could be overtaken by second-placed Paris Saint-Germain and travel to Lyon on Sunday on points. do.
Fourth-placed Lance missed out on a chance to top the table in a goalless draw against Nantes.
Nice lost 1-0 at home to Angers, with defender Jean-Claire Todibo receiving a red card five seconds later, both sides finishing with 10 men.
Todibo was sent off after just nine seconds. This includes his four seconds taken by referee Bastian Despee to pull the card out of his pocket.
Sofiane Boufal took the kickoff for Angers and passed it to Adrien Hunou. He finds striker Abdallah Sima surging. Sima pushed the ball past Todibo, who stuck out his leg and tripped the striker. The game he was made 5 seconds ago.
Sima would have cleared on the edge of the penalty area.
Sprinting from the middle, Deshepy kept his stride when he fished a red card out of his back pocket.
After video review, the decision was made that Todibo was the final defender.
Boufal was later sent off, but Nabil Bentaleb scored just before half-time to give Angers a 1-0 win.
“I don’t think it was a red card,” said Nice coach Lucien Favre, with Dante and Jordan Rotomba covering.
“Had we played with 11 players, we would have won this game.”
At Reims, defender Bradley Rocco was sent off for a shot at Brill-Embolo in the 22nd minute as they lost 3-0 to Monaco.
“The referee ruined the game,” Lance coach Oscar Garcia lamented, adding: “This is not the first time.”
Club president Jean-Pierre Caillot, who criticized the referee in last month’s draw against Lyon, was also suspended until 31 December.
In the penalty game in Brittany, Ajaccio took their first win of the season 1-0 in a two-man stretched match in Brest.
Seconds after kick-off, Ajaccio goalkeeper Benjamin Leroy caught his teammate’s knee head-on as he tried to catch the ball.
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“I lost consciousness. I was hit on the neck,” said Corsica coach Olivier Pantaloni.
An aerial duel also defeated Noah Fadiga after half an hour, surprising the defenders with a head-to-head confrontation with Ismael Diallo.
Brest’s 22-year-old also left the pitch on a stretcher and tried to reassure the fans with a thumbs-up.
Ajaccio had their first success of the season thanks to a goal from Roman Hamouma in the 65th minute, putting Corsica just one point ahead of Brest and Strasbourg.
Elsewhere, Troyes won 3–1 at Clermont, moving up to 10th place after two consecutive losses.
Clermont captain Johann Gastien scored just three minutes into the match, but the away side fought back with a double by Mama Bardet and closed it out with a second-half goal from Renault Ripal.