“Key Takeaways: Stade Rennais’ 4-2 Victory Over Angers in Ligue 1”

With our partner Opta Sports, discover the main figures to remember after Stade Rennais’ victory 4 goals to 2 against Angers.

Angers will play in Ligue 2 next season

● Angers will be officially relegated to Ligue 2 at the end of the season. Approved with 5 matches to go at SCO, this is the earliest relegation in a Ligue 1 season since Troyes in 2015/16 (6 matches remaining).

● Rennes have scored 37 goals at home in Ligue 1 2022-2023, the co-highest total in the competition (37 also for Paris before their match against Lorient this afternoon).

● Angers had not scored at least 2 goals in a Ligue 1 match since October 16, 2022 (2-3 in Toulouse), the end of a series of 21 games at 1 goal maximum in the elite (which had not happened to a team in the same L1 season since Lille in 1994/95 – 28 matches).

Bourigeaud’s regularity

● Steve Mandanda is the only goalkeeper to have committed 2 fouls giving the opponent a penalty in Ligue 1 2022-2023. The Rennes goalkeeper has only saved one of the last 10 penalties he has suffered.

● Amine Gouiri was both a scorer and a passer in the same Ligue 1 match for only the second time in the colors of Rennes after October 9, 2022 against Nantes (1 goal, 1 assist as well). He was decisive 6 times against Angers in the elite (3 goals, 3 assists), his favorite prey in L1.

● Benjamin Bourigeaud has reached the bar of 10 direct implications on a goal during a Ligue 1 season for the 5th time (11 – 3 goals, 8 assists this season). Since his arrival in Rennes in 2017-2018, only 2 other midfielders can say the same in the top flight: Dimitri Payet and Angel Di Maria (5 times each as well).

● Jérémy Doku has scored 2 braces in his last 2 home games for Rennes in Ligue 1, having remained silent in each of his first 32 appearances at Roazhon Park. He is the first SRFC player to chain 2 doubles at home in L1 since Shabani Nonda in February-March 2000 (2 also).

Bentaleb, the Angevin ray of sunshine

● Cédric Hountondji’s own goal (Angers) is the 1st CSC out of the box in Ligue 1 since Dennis Appiah’s with Nantes against Paris on November 20, 2021. No team has conceded more CSC than Angers in L1 2022/23 (4 – tied with Nantes).

● Sada Thioub has been decisive in each of his last 2 matches with Angers in Ligue 1 (1 goal, 1 assist), as many times as in his 55 previous appearances in the top flight (2 assists).

● Nabil Bentaleb is Angers’ most decisive player in Ligue 1 this season (8 times – 4 goals, 4 assists).

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