It presented itself inferior to the circumstances and experienced the defeat in Strasbourg the Lyon (2-1).
Laurent Blanc’s side had a poor night, with the hosts capitalizing on their mistakes to start the season with a great win. In 63′, o Bellegarde with a beautiful free kick he gave the lead to his team, for 1-0. As if that wasn’t enough for the Lions, in the 75th minute, Bellegarde became the creator and served the Motiba, who made it 2-0 from close range. The only thing the visitors managed was to reduce with him Taliafiko in 88′.
The start to the new season was sensational for Rennes, who crushed newly-enlightened Metz 5-1. THE Calimuendo opened the scoring in the 20th minute, with the visitors immediately replying for 1-1 in the 21st minute with together In the 51st minute, Guiry put the Brittany team in front of the score again, while Doku “wrote” the 3-1 in the 67th minute. From that point onwards he took action Ibrahim Salah, who with two goals of his own (87’+90’+1′) made the final 5-1.
The program of the 1st matchday:
Friday 11/8
Nice-Lille 1-1
(19′ Lebord – 90’+4′ Diakite)
Saturday 12/8
Marseille-Reims 2-1
(23′ Unahi, 73′ Bitinia – 10′ Ito)
Paris Saint Germain-Lorraine 0-0
Sunday 13/8
Brest-Lance 3-2
(45’+1′ pen, 87′ pen. Del Castillo, 56′ Lala – 11′ Sotoka, 22′ Masado)
Clermont-Monaco 2-4
(7′ Vietesca, 53′ Muhammed Cham – 26′ Vanderson, 43′, 70′ Ben Yedder, 90’+3′ Aklius)
Nantes-Toulouse 1-2
(13′ pen. Mohamed – 62′ Abuklal, 90’+1′ Nicolaisen)
Montpellier-Havri 2-2
(58′, 60′ Adams, 6′ Joris, 90’+1′ Gadcher)
Rennes-Metz 5-1
(20′ Kalimunendo, 51′ Guiry, 67′ Doku, 87′, 90’+1′ Salah – 21′ Maziz)
Strasbourg-Lyon 2-1
(63′ Bellegarde, 75′ Motiba – 88′ Taliafiko)
The next (2nd) matchday:
Friday 18/8
Metz-Marseille (22:00)
Saturday 19/8
Lyon-Montpellier (18:00)
Toulouse-Paris Saint-Germain (22:00)
Sunday 20/8
Lille-Nade (14:00)
Havre-Brest (16:00)
Lorient-Nice
Reims-Clermont
Monaco-Strasbourg (18:05)
Lance-Ren (21:45)
Source: Sport Fm
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