VIDEO | Ligue 1 Highlights: Rennes vs Montpellier
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00:00And this is a thousand star ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being here with us. Let's remember
00:08that at this moment Brent is sitting in the 11th.
00:17And we get underway on Matchday 4. Having had the international break to collect their
00:23thoughts, Montpellier once again go in search of their first win of the season. In recent
00:27times, lost just two of the last 16 Ligue 1 meetings with Montpellier. Looking to get
00:35off on the right foot here. Although over to the left-hand side could just be quite
00:41a fluid attacking set-up. Certainly on the left-hand side though, Adrien Truffaut who
00:46cuts inside and unleashed a shot. It will be Blaz to take the resulting corner.
00:57Towards the back stick. Christopher Wu is there. Back to Savanier. Nicely worked. Options
01:06waiting in the middle. Savanier whips it in. And getting across, Christopher Wu was on
01:12an all-down. 9-7 last season. 12-4 the one before. 8-7, 5-5. Cutting inside.
01:27Savanier is going to drop on the edge. Well, it was Nzingula. A second, fourth place finish
01:36in a row. So 10th, not where they'd expect to be. They're 11th so far this season. Early
01:43days of course, but looking to improve on that position. And they could do so with three
01:51points here. Talking himself into the book with his protests. It was just outside the
01:59area. Contact. The right side of the line from Amonpelli. Make sure it doesn't sneak
02:06under the wall as it jumps. Karambek lays it off. And it's into the bottom corner from
02:14Ludovic Blaz. His second of the season in four games. Puts Wren one to the good after
02:30a little over a quarter of this match. A clever free kick just flicked on by the Dane, Albert
02:41Karambek. Opened up the angle for Blaz, who curled it perfectly around the outside of
02:49Rabih and Nzingula. And no chance for Benjamin Lecomte to get down quickly enough. One from
03:01the training ground perhaps. Either way, clean sheet of the season. And for now, it's Adrian
03:10Truffet and Wren on the counter. Behind Calimuendo. Karambek. Santa Maria floats it in. It was
03:23attacked by Hatteberg. And by the time we come back from the replays, possession is
03:29with the hosts again. Just ahead of Blaz. He closes down though. Winter back and Karambek
03:36forces a save from Lecomte. Goal scorer. Blaz looks to turn provider. Headed away by Sagnon.
03:45Sacco back to Sagnon. Montpellier happy to hold on to the ball for a while. Haven't seen a huge
03:52amount of it in the last few minutes. Zoric ventures forwards. Picks up 14 points from the
04:01final six. Four wins, two draws. Scoring at least two in five of those six. Here though,
04:08they've conceded two. Arno Calimuendo doubles Wren's lead. And it's plane sailing to the side
04:17from the Brittany coast. Calimuendo off the mark. This campaign, ten goals last season.
04:30In his third appearance of the 24-25 season. Assegnon into the middle.
04:39And all too easy for Calimuendo. Plenty of space. Great movement. Coming in ahead of the defender.
04:49And finding the corner. Beyond Benjamin Lecomte. Wren can break away again here. Truffaut weighs up
04:59his options. Picks out Calimuendo. Blaz makes the run. Calimuendo going south but was caught
05:04just as he took the shot. Chulabali. Off to Adam to get it back. Oh, thinking about the shot.
05:19Teji Sevaniye. See if they can make it. Ladies and gentlemen, 45 minutes to go. So back underway.
05:2845 minutes remaining. Montpellier to fight back. Headed away. And indeed, that is the final action
05:38of the first half. Wren, good value for their 2-0 lead. From Bodeglimpse for 15 million.
05:52Tangi Chulabali was brought in last December. He's teed it up for a long race. This time,
06:03more successfully into the path of Hatterber who lifts it up, floats it in. Found Adrian
06:09Figueroa, 20-24. Sevaniye with a dangerous free kick. It's going to be bundled home,
06:17eventually, by Acor Adams. Roseanne Park is silenced. A bolt out of the blue from Montpellier.
06:33But it was a killer delivery. Maybe a question of offside. It was actually stopped initially.
06:48Perfectly into the path. Scored just one from mid-November onwards. But the roar inside the
06:56stadium here is not. Ludwig Blas looked to do something in order to create the third goal. It
07:04was over the head of Groenbeek. Won back though by Alidou Seydoux. First international goal. No
07:13league goals to his name. Here a man with plenty of league goals to his name. Arnaud Calimwendo
07:18laid it off for Blas. Gets it back. Groenbeek wriggles away from one and two and fires it home
07:25to make it three. Well, he's threatened to do so. But now he finally gets off the mark for his new
07:35club in his fourth appearance. He's now displayed it in front as well. Initial ball into Calimwendo.
07:47Looked to have come to nothing when it was stopped in his tracks. But well worked,
07:56good patience and then brilliant feet and an excellent finish from Albert Groenbeek.
08:02Nice ball out to the left from Servagne. Sacco lays it back to Modeveu Sagnon.
08:14Littered in by Chateau. Koulibaly knocks it down for Servagne. Excellent block.
08:26Back underway. Servagne looks to be okay to continue and immediately back on the ball
08:38and as ever in the attacking sense. Just one goal, one assist last season. Vice-captain though.
08:46In 78 against Panama. Racing on through. His jotta goes down to Jordan James. James makes the
09:08run. It would have gone through to him where he stopped it but might work out either way.
09:13Tries to slip it through. It's gonna rebound back for James. Saved on the rebound. Somehow
09:21doesn't find its way beyond Montpellier. With a corner and a chance of at least a consolation.
09:27Servagne plays it out to Kasri on the volley. Not a bad effort.
09:44And now the final whistle. And the match is over. 3-0. Stade Rennais have just won 3-0
09:54against Montpellier at this moment. Stade Rennais is climbing up.