Paris Saint-Germain achieve a wide victory in the land of Nantes

The first half ended in a goalless draw, and Saint-Germain came in forcefully in the second half as he scored his first goal in the 47th minute through Ander Herrera before Kilian Mbappé added the second penalty goal in the 65th minute. , and in minute 88 Pablo Sarabia managed to add the third. .

The victory lifted the Parisian team’s record to 21 points in the lead after achieving their seventh win in exchange for two defeats, while Nantes fell behind 8 points in fifteenth place.

Match events

After a negative first half in which no ball was hit between the three sticks, the Spanish Ander Herrera managed to open the scoring two minutes after the start of the first half, taking advantage of a center from Kylian Mbappé before Mbappé joined the second penalty after being obstructed inside the area (65).

And Nantes had a golden opportunity to reduce the gap when the referee awarded a penalty to Kadir Bampa, but Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas deflected his attempt in the 70th minute. Spaniard Pablo Sarabia finished the score with two minutes from time. match.

Saint-Germain played the match in the absence of his Brazilian star Neymar, who was injured on Wednesday in Turkey’s Istanbul Basaksehir match.

Neymar felt pain in his thigh without any friction with the players of the Turkish host team in the 18th minute, and went to treatment two minutes later before returning to the stadium without being able to complete the game to leave his place to Spanish Pablo Sarabia, who participated today instead.

Neymar will not be ready to play until the international suspension period scheduled for the middle of next month, so he will miss the French League match at Parc des Princes on November 7, in addition to the German showdown with Leipzig next Wednesday in the third round of the prestigious continental competition. Which reached its final game last season before losing 1-0 to Bayern Munich.

Neymar’s absence is a serious blow to his German coach Thomas Tuchel, who suffers the injury of several key players, among which the Italian Marco Verratti, the Argentine Mauro Icardi, Leandro Paredes, the German Julian Draxler and the Spanish Juan Bernat stand out .

Saint-Germain had regained his balance in the Champions League after returning from Istanbul by defeating Turkey’s Basaksehir with two clean goals, to somewhat offset his loss in his backyard to Manchester United 1-2 in the first round.

Important victory for Renn

At the same stage, Rennes beat Brest 2-1, and Rennes raised their score to 18 points in third place.

Brest opened the scoring by Frank Honora, taking advantage of a benign header from Steve Michel Monier in the 58th minute, to return Rennes with two goals to their captain Damien da Silva with a header in the 66th minute, and Moroccan Nayef Akrad with a header as well. , taking advantage of a free kick from Benjamin Borrego 70.

Brest and thus stayed in 9 points in fourteenth place.