Rennes beat Montpellier on Saturday afternoon on the second day of Ligue 1 (2-1). Eduardo Camavinga, called this week in the France team, was particularly illustrated. Led 2-0, the Montpellier reduced the score in added time, but that was not enough.

Eduardo Camavinga celebrated his first call-up for the French team by once again being decisive for Rennes' victory on Saturday against Montpellier (2-1), after a match ended 10 against 10, as last week in Lille. A one-two, an acceleration, a body feint and an unstoppable cross shot: in a classy occasion, Camavinga showed why Didier Deschamps had registered him for the first time on his list of Blues. Bodes well for the Rennais who can become the first Blue under 18, if he comes into play against Sweden or Croatia.

First L1 match since March for Montpellier

For the reunion with their public - certainly sparse, the Rennais were dominant but struggled to materialize their opportunities, before the individual feat of their nugget. At the start of the match, the Montpellier players, who returned to the competition on Saturday after abandoning it with a stinging 5-0 defeat in March on the same lawn, seemed to want to wash away the affront, by showing themselves to be the most enterprising .

But after a preparation disrupted by cases of coronavirus and a first match against Lyon postponed because of the Champions League, they were diminished by injuries and the absence of their striker Andy Delort, affected by the Covid-19. The height of fate is Damien Le Tallec, trained in Rennes, who opened the scoring by pushing back in his own net a center of Raphinha, after a festival of the elusive Brazilian winger (1-0, 21st).

Camavinga, the darling of Roazhon Park

The Rennes chances then started to rain and the Rennais increased their domination, helped by the exclusion of Florian Mollet at the end of the first period for an involuntary crampon strike on the head of Faitout Maouassa, strongly recalling the gesture that had earned a red card and three suspension matches for Sacha Boey last week against Lille. Martin Terrier was in turn sent off twenty minutes from the end of the match for a tackle from behind.

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Even if Gaëtan Laborde reduced the score in stoppage time with a powerful header, despite his broken nose at the start of the week in training (2-1, 92nd + 2), it was above all a standing ovation from the Roazhon Park, for his 17-year-old darling, which ended this successful evening for the Bretons.