Dijon 2-1 Rennes: result and report

Ligue 1 · Friday 26 January 2018

Result

Dijon 2-1 Rennes

Ligue 1 · Friday 26 January 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Dijon 2-1 Rennes: match report

Dijon won against Rennes 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Friday 26 January 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Florent Balmont opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Dijon's goals came from Florent Balmont (30') and Julio Tavarès (65'). Rennes scored through Ismaïla Sarr (41').

Discipline: Dijon received 3 yellow cards; Rennes received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Dijon were 14th on 25 points from 22 and Rennes 8th on 31 points from 22. Dijon went on to finish that season 11th with 48 points, and Rennes 5th with 58.

Dijon lined up in a 4-3-3 and Rennes in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Florent Balmont of Dijon (8.1), ahead of Julio Tavarès (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Dijon win, 2 draws and 2 for Rennes.

Going into the match Dijon's last five read L-L-D-L-W and Rennes's W-W-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Yellow card · Florent BalmontDijon
  • 30'Goal · Florent BalmontDijon · 1-0
  • 34'Yellow card · Wahbi KhazriRennes
  • 41'Goal · Ismaïla SarrRennes · 1-1
  • 43'Yellow card · Valentin RosierDijon
  • 52'Yellow card · M. AbeidDijon
  • 65'Goal · Julio TavarèsDijon · 2-1
  • 89'Yellow card · Benjamin AndréRennes

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Dijon 1, draws 2, Rennes 2.

Team news

Dijon line-up (4-3-3)

Baptiste Reynet, Oussama Haddadi, Wesley Lautoa, Cédric Yambéré, Valentin Rosier, M. Abeid, Florent Balmont, Xeka, Frédéric Sammaritano, Naïm Sliti, Julio Tavarès

Rennes line-up (4-2-3-1)

Tomas Koubek, Joris Gnagnon, Ramy Bensebaini, Ludovic Baal, Hamari Traoré, Ismaïla Sarr, Benjamin Bourigeaud, Benjamin André, Adrien Hunou, Jérémy Gélin, Wahbi Khazri