Rennes sink PSG at house at hand season’s first defeat to Ligue 1 leaders

Rennes scored simply earlier than and after the break to beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 on Sunday and hand the runaway league chief its first defeat of the season.
Gaetan Laborde put Rennes forward on the stroke of halftime after PSG had began to get on prime, with Lionel Messi hitting the crossbar with a freekick within the thirty first minute. Laborde then turned supplier within the forty sixth for midfielder Flavien Tait.
“We played a very physical game and we hurt them on each of our runs,” Tait stated. “They were missing something today with their finishing.”
PSG had received its opening eight video games however had been lucky in some and wanted injury-time objectives to edge a win in opposition to Lyon and Metz.
“The first person respsonsible is me,” PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino stated after he was outwitted by Rennes coach Bruno Genesio.
Rennes has been a tricky place to go to in current seasons and was once more so for various causes.
Because of heavy wind and rain within the Paris space, the group was unable to fly to Brittany on Saturday night time and as an alternative arrived on the stadium by coach and automotive. Sports each day L’Equipe’s web site stated Kylian Mbappe, Achraf Hakimi, Keylor Navas and Neymar all drove.
The six-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi, who scored an excellent first purpose for PSG within the Champions League on Tuesday, had a shot blocked early on. He then hit the crossbar with a freekick for the second time since becoming a member of PSG in a shock transfer from Barcelona, the place he netted 672 objectives.
Although he nonetheless awaits his first league purpose for PSG, he arrange Mbappe halfway by means of the primary half — however he scuffed his shot — and virtually created a purpose for Neymar.
PSG was punished when Ghana winger Kamaldeen Sulemana picked out Laborde for his league-leading sixth purpose of the season — two greater than Mbappe.
Mbappe scored halfway by means of the second half after Messi and Angel Di Maria put him by means of. But the purpose was dominated out after a video assessment confirmed Mbappe was offside.
The irrepressible Laborde received a late penalty after a tussle with Hakimi, nevertheless it was referred to as off following a assessment.
Later Sunday, Marseille was at defending champion Lille with Marseille followers mourning the lack of iconic former president Bernard Tapie, who died on Sunday morning from most cancers. He was 78.
Marseille followers erected an enormous portrait of Tapie in entrance of their house stadium Stade Velodrome as followers, a few of them in tears, paid their respects.
Lille and Marseille followers joined collectively in a second’s applause earlier than the sport as an image of Tapie was beamed on the stadium scoreboard. Marseille gamers wore black armbands.
In the late recreation, Saint-Etienne hosted bitter native rival Lyon.
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Angers twice got here from behind earlier than beating Metz 3-2, with 17-year-old ahead Mohamed-Ali Cho among the many scorers for fourth-place Angers.
Monaco’s resurgence continued because it beat Bordeaux 3-0 to maneuver as much as sixth place and Nantes beat Troyes 2-0 to climb to eighth spot — though Lyon can leapfrog each with a win.
Also, it was Lorient 1, Clermont 1.