This result allows the Rennais of Bruno Genesio, former coach of Les Gones, to have an eight-point lead (49 pts) over the Lyon club (41 pts), which may have abandoned its illusions of finishing among the first three and find the Champions League through the championship.

Olympique Lyonnais, which lost for the second time in a row at home after the defeat against Lille (1-0), is only tenth and still does not take off: it must now hope that Strasbourg, Marseille, Lille, Nantes, Monaco and Lens collapse...

Above all, the Gones will have to be much more rigorous in all areas and stop claiming that they are playing well, as their coach Peter Bosz nevertheless maintains.

The Europa League, the winner of which is automatically qualified for the C1, risks taking on even more importance for the Lyonnais.

But before thinking of winning the event, they will have to show something else against FC Porto next Thursday in the round of 16 second leg, despite their victory in the first leg (1-0).

Rennes ready for Leicester

The Rennais, for their part, obtained their fourth victory in a row in Ligue 1, and will seek next Thursday to overcome a handicap of two goals conceded in the first leg to Leicester in the Europa League Conference (0-2).

To achieve this, they can draw inspiration from their performance in Lyon: the Bretons confirmed the lesson they learned in the first leg, when they beat OL 4-1 with all-out pressing.

The addition could have been even heavier when at halftime (3-0), everything was already settled.

Peter Bosz's tactical changes at the break had no effect, except to concede a fourth goal on a shot lodged in the top corner of Martin Terrier (49th), who had not won during his stay in Lyon, between 2018 and 2020.

Rennes and Martin Terrier outclassed Lyon on their lawn in the Ligue 1 shock disputed in Décines, March 13, 2022 JEFF PACHOUD AFP

Previously, Benjamin Bourigeaud had opened the scoring in the 11th minute by beating Anthony Lopes closely after a service from Gaëtan Laborde.

Baptiste Santamaria doubled the lead with a shot accidentally deflected by Lucas Paquetà (13').

Lopes then almost scored against his camp after a miss from Thiago Mendes before making, in added time, a bad recovery which allowed Majer to bring the score to 3-0 (45th + 1).

The goal scored against his camp by Hamari Traoré (4-1, 59th) does not change the report of desolation left by this rout, any more than the penalty, generous, transformed by Moussa Dembélé (4-2, 82nd).

Revenge for Genesio

Although he denies it, this great success still smells of revenge for Stade Rennes coach Bruno Genesio, who led OL for three and a half years (December 2016-2019) after having been a professional player. and started at football school at the age of 5.

Stade Rennais coach Bruno Genesio savors his team's indisputable victory in Lyon, March 13, 2022 JEFF PACHOUD AFP

Hated by a fringe of ultra supporters, he was never able to find legitimacy among them before going into exile in China and then returning to France, to Rennes where he took the team during last season to finish 6th. .

On April 2, 2019, it was a defeat in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France at Groupama stadium against … Rennes (3-2) which had destroyed the idea of ​​​​an extension of Genesio in Lyon yet envisaged.

Even if Jean-Michel Aulas has comforted Peter Bosz "until the end of the season and even the next", can this humiliation make him, there too, change his mind?

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