(Ligue 1 2022/2023): Highlights PSG - RENNES

A return home for Paris Saint-Germain as they focus on opening a 12-point advantage at the summit, while Rennes arrives in the capital aiming to do a leap double on the champions, Coutoco and Kambé, with an early warning. Les Rouges Noirs defeated Les Brésiliens in mid-January after utilising a back five, Bruno Genesio reverting to that winning formula, especially after just one win in seven on the road. Lionel Messi limped out of training on Thursday but fit enough to start. Any claims of an argument with under-pressure Christophe Galtier had been swatted away. No Marquinhos or Sergio Ramos, PSG starting with a back three. Seventeen-year-old El Chaday Pichuabu on the left and Juan Bernat on the right of Danilo, yet still killing Mbappé, who was trying to be the spark, although the captain failing to find the target. Rennes had kept a clean sheet in the last two away games, only the face of Steve Mondonga kept them on the hunt for a third. Mbappé still level with Jonathan David on 19 goals at the top of the scoring charts. Messi and Mbappé again showing great understanding. It's the same combination again, somehow the Rennes goal remained intact. Paris had lost three of their four Ligue 1 Uber Eats games in which they'd conceded the first goal in 2023 after poor finishing at one end proved to be a bad omen at the other. What a way to score your first Ligue 1 goal since September 2022. Cameroon ending a run of 19 games in 35 shots without scoring in the top flight. More importantly, a first for Rennes. Paris had conceded at least one goal in eight of their last nine games in Ligue 1 Uber Eats, as many in the previous 18. If that was bad, the second half wasn't to offer any shelter from the worsening storm. Arnaud Canemoendo left Paris Saint-Germain for Rennes in the summer for 20 million euros, back at Le Parc, a seventh of the season. The back three of Paris all over the place, a lack of defensive depth, plain for all to see. Canemoendo not wanting to celebrate where he used to call home, putting Rennes in full charge. Plum faces around the Parc de France and the Rouge et Bleu were on course to lose the same opponent twice for only the third time under the QSI era, but looking like the first without a response could have been worse. Toko Akambi just off target. Rennes' boss Bruno Genesio has the most wins against Les Brésiliens in Ligue 1 Uber Eats under the Qatari ownership, just ahead of a certain Christophe Galtier. Gianluigi Donnarumma making sure Canemoendo didn't add to his tally. Paris wide open, well after scoring in five straight league matches, Messi two without, PSG needed inspiration most from him and Mbappe. Fiery strike but straight at Mondonda. Plum faces on the sidelines, the president and sporting director. Amari Traore was off the this one. He scored the winner in the reverse fixture. Failing to net again as Galtier looked for loan, Ramos sat alongside ex-goalkeeper Keller Navas. It tells you what situation you're in when you're looking to Marco Verratti to get you on the score sheet and even the small Italian brilliantly denied by Mondonda. A clean sheet, well earned, World Cup winner, veteran Breton goalkeeper. Paris losing their first home game in Ligue 1 Uber Eats since April 2021, ending a run of 35 without defeat. But for Rennes, what a moment, their first win at the Parc de France since May 2018. The first league double since 08-09. The Bretons back into fifth ahead of the Euro chasing pack.