Rennes 4-1 Lorient: result and report

Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 May 2007

Result

Rennes 4-1 Lorient

Ligue 1 · Saturday 19 May 2007, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Rennes 4-1 Lorient: match report

Rennes defeated Lorient 4-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 19 May 2007. The half-time score was 1-1.

Mario Melchiot opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Rennes's goals came from Mario Melchiot (1'), Bruno Cheyrou (50'), John Utaka (77') and Cyril Jeunechamp (87'). Lorient scored through Oscar Ewolo (23').

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Rennes were 6th on 53 points from 36 and Lorient 10th on 49 points from 36. Rennes went on to finish that season 3rd with 57 points, and Lorient 14th with 49.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Rennes wins, 1 draw and 0 for Lorient.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Mario MelchiotRennes · 1-0
  • 23'Goal · Oscar EwoloLorient · 1-1
  • 50'Goal · Bruno CheyrouRennes · 2-1
  • 77'Goal · John UtakaRennes · 3-1
  • 87'Goal · Cyril JeunechampRennes · 4-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Rennes 0, draws 1, Lorient 0.

Team news

Rennes expected line-up

Simon Pouplin, Grégory Bourillon, Erik Kenneth Edman, Mario Melchiot, Bruno Cheyrou, Étienne Didot, Olivier Monterrubio, Jimmy Briand, John Utaka, Olivier Sorlin

Lorient expected line-up

Rémy Riou, Christophe Jallet, Sylvain Marchal, Ulrich Le Pen, Fabrice Abriel, Oscar Ewolo, Yazid Mansouri, André-Pierre Gignac, Rafik Saifi, Mickaël Ciani