Rennes vs Marseille
France Ligue 1’s opening match of the 20th week will feature a match between Rennes, who plays host to Marseille, where the match will be held at Roazhon Park. This super big match will certainly run very interesting, in the standings while Rennes is ranked 3 while Marseille is at number 2 but they are 5 points adrift.
Nevertheless Rennes actually still leaves 1 game more, just playing 18 matches they successfully incised the results of 10 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. Rennes has become one of the favorite teams, Marseille can no longer underestimate Rennes. Of the last 3 meetings the two teams they always draw with a score of 2-2, 1-1 and 1-1.
Rennes has a positive trend that makes them more favored in this fight, J. Stéphan’s team successfully won the last 7 home games. In fact, one of them is the team from Italy namely Lazio in the Europa League, M. Niang et al like getting additional strength when playing in front of their own supporters.
While their Marseille side also played quite well when as a guest team, they were unbeaten in the last 4 away matches. However, Marseille in the French Cup yesterday played very poorly, even having to qualify for the next round dramatically after winning a penalty shootout against D. Benedetto. While Rennes is still reasonable they play fiercely against Amiens, while Marseille against a clearly different caste team.
Seeing the game from Marseille applied by coach André Villas-Boas yesterday had the effect of giving doubts to his team for this match. It is very likely that Rennes will beat Marseille and the top competition is getting hotter.
Our Prediction: Under 2.5
Odds: 1.70