Nîmes 2-4 Rennes: result and report

Ligue 1 · Sunday 13 September 2020

Result

Nîmes 2-4 Rennes

Ligue 1 · Sunday 13 September 2020, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

Nîmes 2-4 Rennes: match report

Nîmes were beaten by Rennes 2-4 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 13 September 2020. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Serhou Guirassy opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Nîmes's goals came from A. Cubas (36') and Zinedine Ferhat (55'). Rennes scored through Serhou Guirassy (12'), Serhou Guirassy (39'), Nayef Aguerd (72') and Benjamin Bourigeaud (90+7').

Discipline: Nîmes received 2 yellow cards; Rennes received 6 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nîmes were 9th on 3 points from 2 and Rennes 7th on 4 points from 2. Nîmes went on to finish that season 19th with 35 points, and Rennes 6th with 58.

Nîmes lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rennes in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Serhou Guirassy of Rennes (8.3), ahead of Benjamin Bourigeaud (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nîmes win, 0 draws and 3 for Rennes.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

12'Goal · Serhou GuirassyRennes · 0-1
27'Yellow card · Faitout MaouassaRennes
36'Goal · A. CubasNîmes · 1-1
39'Goal · Serhou GuirassyRennes · 1-2
50'Yellow card · K. DenkeyNîmes
55'Goal · Zinedine FerhatNîmes · 2-2
60'Yellow card · Eduardo CamavingaRennes
61'Yellow card · S. NzonziRennes
71'Yellow card · R. RipartNîmes
72'Goal · Nayef AguerdRennes · 2-3
79'Yellow card · Benjamin BourigeaudRennes
85'Yellow card · Damien Da SilvaRennes
90+5'Yellow card · Romain SalinRennes
90+7'Goal · Benjamin BourigeaudRennes · 2-4

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Nîmes 1, draws 0, Rennes 3.

Rennes 2-1 NîmesLigue 1 · 23 Feb 2020
Nîmes 0-1 RennesLigue 1 · 15 Jan 2020
Nîmes 3-1 RennesLigue 1 · 9 Apr 2019
Rennes 4-0 NîmesLigue 1 · 22 Dec 2018

Team news

Unavailable

Gerzino NyamsiRennes · injury (Thigh Problems)
Clément DepresNîmes · injury (Knee Surgery)
M'Baye NiangRennes · injury (Fitness)
James Léa SilikiRennes · injury (Tear in the abductor muscle)

Nîmes line-up (4-2-3-1)

Baptiste Reynet, Renaud Ripart, Loïck Landre, Pablo Martinez, Birger Meling, Lucas Deaux, Andrés Cubas, Zinedine Ferhat, Yassine Benrahou, Romain Philippoteaux, Kévin Denkey

Rennes line-up (4-3-3)

Romain Salin, Hamari Traoré, Damien Da Silva, Nayef Aguerd, Faitout Maouassa, Eduardo Camavinga, Steven Nzonzi, Jonas Martin, Raphinha, Serhou Guirassy, Flavien Tait