Rennes vs. PSG stay rating, updates, highlights from Ligue 1 Matchday 9

Can Paris Saint-Germain sustain its excellent begin to the Ligue 1 season? It has what, on paper, appears to be like like a winnable match with its journey to Brittany to face Stade Rennais, additionally popularly referred to as Rennes. 

League-leading PSG has gone 8 for 8 to start its French Ligue 1 marketing campaign. It’s already 15 factors higher than 14th-placed Rennes (2-3-3). The Parisian aspect is nonetheless a methods from matching the report it set in 2018-19 with 14 straight wins to begin that season. PSG’s present Ligue 1 successful streak has largely occurred with out star signing Lionel Messi, who since arriving has missed 5 Ligue 1 matches as a result of harm, relaxation or lack of health. Messi’s solely two appearances so far within the French high flight have come in opposition to Stade de Reims and Olympique Lyon.

Each groups are coming off midweek victories in European cup competitors. PSG notched one other win, 2-0, Tuesday in opposition to fellow UEFA Champions League favourite Manchester Metropolis with Messi scoring his first aim for the membership. Within the UEFA Europa Convention League on Thursday, Rennes received a come-from-behind 2-1 win at Dutch membership Vitesse with the game-winner scored by teenager Kamaldeen Sulemana.

WATCH: Messi, PSG vs. Rennes on fuboTV (free 7-day trial)

“They’ve some distinctive gamers however we’re able to giving them bother,” Rennes head coach Bruno Genesio stated within the lead-up to the match. “We have to keep in mind what we did to them final season (a 1-1 attract Rennes). We’ll give every little thing on the sphere [Sunday].” 

Sporting Information can be following the Rennes-PSG match stay and offering rating updates, commentary and highlights as they happen.

MORE: Updated PSG season match schedule and results

Rennes vs. PSG stay rating

Targets:
REN — Gaetan Laborde (Kamaldeen Sulemana) — forty fifth min.

Rennes vs. PSG stay updates & highlights

(All instances Jap)

Halftime: Rennes 1, PSG 0

Halftime: After a difficult begin, PSG ultimately received a grip on the sport and created a sequence of possibilities. Messi was pulling the strings and was arguably essentially the most influential he is been whereas with PSG. However ending struggles from Mbappe and Neymar, and a few good goalkeeping from Alfred Gomis meant PSG did not take benefit. That allowed one of the best two Rennes attacking gamers to mix for the opening aim simply earlier than the halftime whistle.

forty fifth min.: Rennes aim! Sulemana with the cross from the left aspect and Gaetan Laborde crashes the far put up and finishes with the first-time volley. Rennes take the lead in opposition to the run of play.

forty fourth min.: Nice goalkeeping by Alfred Gomis, who stops an Angel Di Maria cross within the field that was destined for a PSG teammate. Gomis has been the standout for Rennes together with Sulemana.

forty first min.: Rennes winger Sulemana is a one-man wrecking crew and his newest run results in a nook kick. Rennes take their time with this nook after a interval of domination from PSG. The nook kick quantities to nothing.

thirty eighth min.: Mbappe cannot complain he is not getting passes at the moment. This time it is Neymar with the go into Mbappe, however Rennes ‘keeper Gomis comes off his line to assert the ball.

thirty sixth min.: Rennes is having a tough time containing Messi, who’s discovering pockets and making darting runs. Messi combines once more with Mbappe and Rennes ‘keeper Alfred Gomis comes out to snuff out the prospect.

thirty third min.: Messi to Mbappe once more! He feeds the ahead, who rounds the ‘keeper, loses the angle, after which places the ball again within the center for Messi. However the ball is cleared by Rennes. These two are discovering one another at the moment.

thirty first min.: Messi crossbar! He wins a free kick 25 yards out and curls the ball over the wall and off the face of the bar, and it bounces away from aim.

twenty seventh min.: PSG is feeling it. Now long-distance aim specialist Idrissa Gueye with a shot from outdoors that hardly misses the left put up. Good second for PSG.

twenty fifth min.: Messi to Mbappe and almost a aim! Messi sends Mbappe by on aim, however the French ahead skies it. Unbelievable miss.

twenty fourth min.: First yellow of the match proven to Rennes ahead Gaetan Laborde for a stray arm within the face of a PSG defender.

twenty third min.: Neymar with a shot contained in the field! The ball takes a lucky bounce within the field and falls to Neymar who badly misses the goal. Here is a optimistic Neymar play from earlier within the recreation:

twenty first min.: Sulemana is now on the proper wing and he fires a left-footed shot that hardly misses the highest nook of Donnarumma’s aim. Nice probability.

18th min.: Finish-to-end motion. Rennes midfielder Jonas Martin with a shot that misses the goal, then PSG’s Achraf Hakimi seems within the Rennes field after which we’re again down on the opposite finish for a Rennes nook. Entertaining match.

fifteenth min.: Rennes is attending to the PSG again line with some ease. That is going to be an open recreation. A stat to bear in mind: Rennes coach Bruno Genesio has misplaced solely one in all 5 dwelling matches in opposition to PSG:

eleventh min.: PSG ‘keeper Donnarumma with some phrases for Rennes ahead Martin Terrier, who challenged for a ball which Donnarumma gained. However the Italian ‘keeper took a knock to the top within the course of and did not prefer it.

tenth min.: Rennes left winger Kamaldeen Sulemana is getting on the ball so much and he appears to be like to be the most important supply of hazard. He began a play which completed with a shot by Gaetan Laborde which was proper at Donnarumma.

sixth min.: Fast flip and burst of acceleration by Kylian Mbappe and it is Rennes heart again Nayef Aguerd who challenges and cuts off his run within the field. Nice defensive play.

2nd min.: PSG’s Marquinhos clears an early Rennes nook and a Flavien Tait cross is devoured up by PSG ‘keeper Gigi Donnarumma.

1st min.: Kylian Mbappe kicks off the match and Rennes come out urgent. The gang is instantly into it.

6:52 a.m.: There can be a minute of applause earlier than kickoff in reminiscence of former Marseille proprietor Bernard Tapie, who handed away on Sunday.

6:44 a.m.: Messi getting the pleasant reception from the house followers:

6:00 a.m.: The league leaders kick off Ligue 1’s seven-game Sunday slate.

Rennes vs. PSG lineups

Neymar, Messi, Di Maria and Mbappe all get the beginning in PSG’s closing match earlier than the worldwide break for World Cup qualifiers. PSG supervisor Mauricio Pochettino is simply lacking a handful of gamers for the journey to Rennes, as Layvin Kurzawa and Julian Draxler are each out due to sickness, whereas one of many membership’s large offseason signings, central defender Sergio Ramos, continues to be working his method again into form. He is someway managed to cobble collectively his beginning XI:

PSG beginning lineup (4-2-3-1, left to proper): 50-Gianluigi Donnarumma — 25-Nuno Mendes, 3-Presnel Kimpembe, 5-Marquinhos, 2-Achraf Hakimi —  6-Marco Verratti, 27-Idrissa Gueye — 10-Neymar Jr., 30-Lionel Messi, 11-Angel Di Maria — 7-Kylian Mbappe

PSG subs (9): 1-Keylor Navas-GK, 22-Abdou Diallo, 24-Thilo Kehrer, 8-Leandro Paredes, 12-Rafinha, 15-Danilo Pereira, 18-Georginio Wijnaldum, 21-Ander Herrera, 9-Mauro Icardi

Rennes supervisor Bruno Genesio has his full aspect accessible for the match, and he is beginning six of 11 gamers on brief relaxation after Thursday’s Europa Convention League street win at Vitesse. Belgian teen star Jeremy Doku is out injured.

Stade Rennais beginning lineup (4-4-2, left to proper): 16-Alfred Gomis — 25-Birger Meling, 6-Nayef Aguerd, 23-Warmed Omari, 27-Hamari Traore — 10-Kamaldeen Sulemana, 20-Flavien Tait, 28-Jonas Martin, 14-Benjamin Bourigeaud — 7-Martin Terrier, 24-Gaetan Laborde

Stade Rennais subs (9): 1-Romain Salin-GK, 4-Loic Bade, 3-Adrien Truffert, 22-Lorenz Assignon,  8-Baptiste Santamaria, 26-Lesley Ugochukwu, 18-Matthis Abline, 9-Sehrou Guirassy, 17-Loum Tchaouna

MORE: Updated UEFA Champions League standings

watch Rennes vs. PSG

• Date: Sunday, Oct. 3
• Time: 7 a.m. ET
• TV channel: beIN Sports activities
• Spanish-language TV: beIN Sports activities en Espanol
• Reside stream: fuboTV

The match can be televised stay by beIN Sports activities, which is accessible on fuboTV (free 7-day trial for new users).