Rennes 5-0 Montpellier: result and report
Ligue 1 · Sunday 8 March 2020
Result
Rennes 5-0 Montpellier
Ligue 1 · Sunday 8 March 2020, 16:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Rennes 5-0 Montpellier: match report
Rennes won against Montpellier 5-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday 8 March 2020. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Faitout Maouassa opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Rennes's goals came from Faitout Maouassa (9'), A. Hunou (28'), Flavien Tait (68'), Romain Del Castillo (73', penalty) and A. Hunou (87', penalty). Montpellier did not score.
Discipline: Rennes received 2 yellow cards; Montpellier received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Rennes were 3rd on 47 points from 27 and Montpellier 8th on 40 points from 27. This fixture belongs to an earlier Ligue 1 season and is kept for reference.
Rennes lined up in a 4-3-3 and Montpellier in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Flavien Tait of Rennes (9.0), ahead of Adrien Hunou (8.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Rennes wins, 5 draws and 1 for Montpellier.
Going into the match Rennes's last five read W-W-L-D-L and Montpellier's W-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Faitout Maouassa
- 25'Yellow card · T. Savanier
- 28'Goal · A. Hunou
- 57'Yellow card · James Léa Siliki
- 68'Goal · Flavien Tait
- 73'Penalty goal · Romain Del Castillo
- 77'Yellow card · Benjamin Bourigeaud
- 77'Yellow card · Junior Sambia
- 86'Yellow card · Pedro Mendes
- 87'Penalty goal · A. Hunou
Head-to-head
Team news
Rennes line-up (4-3-3)
Edouard Mendy, Hamari Traoré, Damien Da Silva, Joris Gnagnon, Faitout Maouassa, Eduardo Camavinga, Steven Nzonzi, James Léa Siliki, Romain Del Castillo, Adrien Hunou, Flavien Tait
Montpellier line-up (3-4-1-2)
Gerónimo Rulli, Pedro Mendes, Vitorino Hilton, Daniel Congré, Thibaut Vargas, Damien Le Tallec, Téji Savanier, Mihailo Ristic, Florent Mollet, Gaëtan Laborde, Andy Delort