Rennes defeats PSG to move into second place
By: j | November 30th, 2008
Paul Le Guen’s best laid plans to prioritize the Rennes match by resting Claude Makélélé, Ludovic Giuly, Guillaume Hoarau and Stéphane Sessegnon in the Racing Santander UEFA Cup match didn’t do the trick as PSG lost 1-0. Unfortunately with Lyonnais, Bordeaux and Marseille playing to scoreless draws, the Parisians missed a glorious opportunity to move up the table and remain at sixth place in Ligue 1.
The match started slowly with neither club really making much of a move for the first twenty minutes however it was Rennes who first showed the thirst for victory. Mickaël Landreau’s evening started with his customary top-shelf performance as he denied veteran Mickaël Pagis powerful drive four minutes before the half-hour mark but it wasn’t long before the home side had the lead. Deep into added time Bruno Cheyrou offered up a slow rolling shot from twenty-five meters that barely have the steam to threaten the goal mouth. Mickaël Landreau presumably lost sight of the ball as it went through the defenders and plopped to the back of the net. PSG returned to the pitch after the break with greater resolve particularly as Mateja Kežman entered the match for Stéphane Sessegnon, who was having a off-day, at the fifty-fifth minute. However as much as PSG kept Rennes ‘keeper Nicolas Douchez they could not breakthrough and the match end with a 1-0 scoreline.
PSG return to action this Wednesday against Manchester City, followed-up with Le Mans in Ligue 1 action next Sunday.
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I thought they played well enough in the second half to deserve a point.
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Dave, how did you watch that game?
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Setanta broadband
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J, my friend, I guess you would be interested to know that one of your favourite Serbian players, young Zoran Tošić (along with 17 years old wonderkind Adem Ljajić) is almost certainly set to join Manchester United during the winter tranfer window. Alex Fergusson has personally lobbied for him to get a work permit, and that issue is already resolved. This news isn’t quite fresh in the Serbian media, but as I haven’t seen any mentions of this transfer in the foreign media, I just thought you may be interested to hear this.
About PSG, I honestly hope you’ll manage to stay in the title contention and qualify for the CL or the Europa League. With so many well-known (Makelele, Guily, Kežman) and perspective players (Hoarau, Sessegnon, Clement, etc), PSG is now truly a Ligue 1 heavyweight and, from my personal point of view, a rather interesting club to follow and watch.
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Nikola – very good to hear from you my friend and I hope you have been very well.
Yes, I knew of young Zoran, I had posted it in another blog and I know they want Adem Ljajić and are considering an offers on Marko Jovanović and Danijel Aleksić of Vojvodina.
Did you see the Partizan – Borac Čačak match. Lets hope they come through against Sevilla tomorrow.
Drop by anytime and very good to hear from you.
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