STRASBOURG. Strasbourg defeats Rennes with a 2-0 win with a goal from M. Senaya (71′) and a goal from J. Sebas (73′). Rennes lost this match even if it was superior in terms of ball possession (60%).

The match was played at the Stade de la Meinau stadium in Strasbourg on Sunday and it started at 5:05 pm local time. In front of 25,407 spectators.​ The referee was Jeremy Stinat assisted by Christophe Mouysset and François Boudikian. The 4th official was Aurélien Petit. The weather was clear sky. The temperature was cold at 14.83 degrees Celsius or 58.69 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 63%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Rennes was in firm control of the ball 60% while Strasbourg was struggling with a 40% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Rennes was putting more pressure with 59 dangerous attacks and 12 shots of which 1 were on target. Nevertheless, Strasbourg was able to find the solution to win this match.​

Strasbourg shot 14 times, 7 on target, 3 off target. Talking about the opposition, Rennes shot 12 times, 1 on target, 7 off target.

Cards

Strasbourg received 1 yellow card (Thomas Delaine). Regarding the opposition, Rennes received 2 yellow cards (Azor Matusiwa and M. Terrier).

Standings

After playing this encounter, Strasbourg has 32 points like Toulouse to hold in the 12th place. On the other side, Rennes will stays with 39 points like Olympique Marseille and Reims to remain in the 8th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Ligue 1, Strasbourg will play away with Toulouse on the 7th of April with a 8-2 head to head record in favor of Strasbourg (3 draws).

Rennes will play away against Monaco on the 7th of April with a 17-10 head to head in favor of Monaco (8 draws).

Strasbourg – Formation

Strasbourg started with a 3-4-2-1 line-up (3-4-2-1).

The manager Patrick Vieira decided to play with the following team: A. Bellaarouch (7.0), Frédéric Guilbert (7.8), Lucas Perrin (7.7), Saïdou Sow (7.3), Marvin Senaya (7.0), Andrey Santos (7.7), Habib Diarra (7.0), Thomas Delaine (7.0), Dilane Bakwa (8.1), Kévin Gameiro (7.0) and E. Emegha (6.6).

The home team had on the bench: J. Aholou, Jessy Deminguet, J. Mwanga (7.0), Abakar Sylla, S. Baseya, I. Doukouré, A. Pierre, A. Ali Abdallah (6.4) and J. Sebas (7.7).

Strasbourg could not rely on the presence of J. Sebas (injured).

Substitutions

Strasbourg made only 1 change substituting Kévin Gameiro for Junior Mwanga (75′)​.

Player of the match: Dilane Bakwa​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Strasbourg was Dilane Bakwa even if he didn’t score any goal.

His rating is 8.1 with 27 passes (78% accurate) and 5 key passes. He won 7 duels out of 13. He performed 5 crosses.

Rennes – Formation

Rennes started with a mid-fielder-oriented line-up (4-1-4-1).

Julien Stéphan played with: Steve Mandanda  (7.5), G. Doué (7.1), W. Omari (7.0), C. Wooh (7.0), Arthur Theate (7.3), B. Santamaría (7.1), D. Doué (7.0), Benjamin Bourigeaud (7.0), Azor Matusiwa (7.0), M. Terrier (6.6) and Amine Gouiri (6.6).

They had on the bench: Gauthier Gallon, Enzo Le Fée (6.7), Fabian Rieder (7.0), I. Salah (6.4), R. Bamba, B. Yıldırım, Alidu Seidu, J. Belocian (7.5) and A. Kalimuendo (6.7).

Substitutions

Rennes made 5 changes: Azor Matusiwa for A. Kalimuendo (57′), Arthur Theate for J. Belocian (74′), D. Doué for Enzo Le Fée (75′), M. Terrier for I. Salah (83′) and B. Santamaría for Fabian Rieder (83′).

Player of the match: J. Belocian​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Rennes was J. Belocian.

His rating is 7.5 with 8 passes (88% accurate) and 1 key pass. He won 3 duels out of 3.

His performance was amazing also because he started the match from the bench before entering in the 74′.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Ligue 1.​

• Olympique Marseille – Paris Saint Germain – 0-2
• Le Havre – Montpellier – 0-2
• Clermont – Toulouse – 0-3
• Nice – Nantes – 1-2
• Lorient – Brest – 0-1
• Strasbourg – Rennes – 2-0