On Saturday evening, the meetings in the French championship were interesting.
Claudio Ranieri's "Nantes" suffered their second consecutive defeat, this time losing to "Rennes" away.
After a dry first half, the hosts were taken ahead by a great play from Wahbi Khazri, and Nicolas Pallois was sent off for a second yellow card, leaving Nantes in a tough spot.
However, Adrian Thomasson managed to earn a penalty kick, which was converted by Emiliano Sala, giving Ranieri's team hope of rescuing a result.
Ultimately, Khazri capitalized on Benjamin Andre's pass to secure the win for the "Rennes" team, who climbed to the top half of the table at the expense of their opponents who fell to fifth place.
"Caen" closed in on "Nantes", ensuring that the struggling "Bordeaux" remained winless since September 23.
In the middle of the first half, Jocelyn Gourvennec's team was punished by Ivan Santini, whose header was the only goal of the match.
"Montpellier" moved up to seventh place, defeating "Lille" in the first half with goals from Jerome Roussillon, Giovanni Sio, and Casimir Ninga.
Results:
"Rennes" 2 - 1 "Nantes"
[1-0] 51' Wahbi Khazri
57' Nicolas Pallois sent off ("Nantes")
[1-1] 73' Emiliano Sala (penalty)
[2-1] 88' Wahbi Khazri
"Caen" 1 - 0 "Bordeaux"
[1-0] 23' Ivan Santini
"Dijon" 3 - 1 "Toulouse"
5' Max-Alain Gradel missed a penalty ("Toulouse")
[1-0] 42' Chang-Hoon Kwon
[2-0] 57' Xeka
[3-0] 64' Wesley Said
[3-1] 71' Andy Delort
"Metz" 0 - 2 "Amiens"
[0-1] 29' Moussa Konate
[0-2] 66' Bongani Zungu
"Montpellier" 3 - 0 "Lille"
[1-0] 5' Jerome Roussillon
[2-0] 26' Giovanni Sio
[3-0] 31' Rodrigue Casimir Ninga
"Troyes" 3 - 0 "Angers"
[1-0] 12' Saif-Eddine Khaoui
[2-0] 45' Hyun-Jun Suk
[3-0] 84' Romain Thomas (own goal)
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