Rennes vs Marseille - prediction, team news, lineups

Stade Rennais invited Olympique Marseille to Roazhon Park connected Friday evening for gameweek 4 of the 2026-27 Ligue 1 campaign.

Les Rouge et Noir scored 2 aboriginal goals to assertion a 2-1 triumph distant astatine Angers successful their erstwhile league match, portion L’OM fell to a gutting 3-2 location decision against Paris FC.

Match preview

After booking their spot successful European shot for the archetypal clip successful 3 years past season, finishing sixth successful the league array with 59 points, Rennes volition beryllium highly blessed with their commencement to the latest Ligue 1 campaign.

Although they were 2 goals to the good, Franck Haise’s men picked up a respectable constituent astatine location to Paris Saint-Germain connected the opening weekend, which they person since added to with consecutive league victories against some Le Mans and Angers.

Sat 5th successful the Ligue 1 array with 7 points from their opening 3 fixtures and being 1 of conscionable 5 teams yet to endure defeat, Les Rouge et Noir volition surely beryllium looking to support their blistery streak arsenic they caput into a much hard tally of fixtures, facing Marseille, Olympique Lyon and Paris FC wrong their adjacent 4 league outings.

Despite scoring 7 league goals truthful far, a tally lone bettered by Strasbourg, if Rennes are to vie amongst the champion they volition surely person to rectify their leaky defence though, with Haise’s broadside already conceding 5 this season.

However, having claimed triumph successful 3 of their erstwhile 4 matches against Marseille astatine Roazhon Park, the astir caller of which being a 1-0 triumph astatine the opening of past season, Les Rouge et Noir volition beryllium assured that they tin physique connected their promising commencement to the run and propulsion into the division’s UEFA Champions League places.

Despite winning each of their past 2 games of the season, Marseille suffered an agonising extremity to their 2025-26 Ligue 1 campaign, finishing conscionable 1 constituent down Lyon who secured the last French summons to Europe’s apical competition.

After earning qualification successful 3 of the anterior 4 seasons, Les Olympiens volition surely beryllium wanting to bounce backmost from their precocious Champions League omission, but having mislaid respective of their astir important players successful the summertime transportation window, the nine-time champions are perchance astatine hazard of slipping adjacent further from the apical four.

Bruno Genesio’s broadside could beryllium forgiven for ignoring those worries having thumped Strasbourg 4-0 connected the opening weekend, nevertheless aft enduring decision successful each of their pursuing 2 fixtures, Marseille present find themselves dwindling successful the bottommost fractional of the array and successful request of immoderate inspiration.

Facing a monumental clash with Paris Saint-Germain astatine the Stade Veledrome adjacent Sunday conscionable days aft their Europa League opener distant to Besiktas, L’OM volition beryllium eyeing up a instrumentality to signifier by beating Rennes this week and climbing towards the acme of the league table.

Already uncovering themselves trailing their hosts by 4 points, Genesio’s men are surely not favourites for triumph connected Friday evening, but having mislaid conscionable 1 of their latest 5 games against Rennes, the visitors are by nary means strangers to overcoming Les Rouge et Noir.

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Team News

Having missed past week’s 2-1 triumph implicit Angers to be the commencement of his child, Rennes defender Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal is expected to instrumentality to the backline for Friday’s fixture, apt pairing caller signing Charlie Cresswell successful the centre.

Not appearing for Les Rouge et Noir since May, it remains to beryllium seen erstwhile Djaoui Cisse volition marque a instrumentality to the matchday squad.

However, the hosts volition beryllium gladsome to person welcomed goalkeeper Brice Samba backmost to the broadside past week, aft the 32-year-old missed the clash with Le Mans owed to a insignificant musculus injury.

With 3 goals successful arsenic galore games to commencement the Ligue 1 campaign, Haise volition beryllium hoping that Esteban Lepaul tin proceed his large signifier and support Rennes warring towards the apical of the league table.

After picking up a thigh wounded against Monaco a fortnight ago, Marseille defender Geoffrey Kondogbia looks apt to beryllium retired until October, portion Nigerian midfielder Tochukwu Nnadi is sidelined with a genu contented sustained erstwhile facing Les Monegasques too.

On a much affirmative note, Les Olympiens welcomed backmost Igor Paixo to the squad past week aft the 26-year-old Brazilian striker missed the anterior lucifer with a thigh problem.

Netting 4 of the club’s six strikes truthful acold this season, Algerian guardant Amine Gouiri is undoubtedly Marseille’s dangerman and looks to person taken connected the output that was near by the precocious departed Mason Greenwood and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Rennes imaginable starting lineup:

Samba; Frankowski, Cresswell, Ait Boudlal, Merlin; Rongier; Bias, Szymanski, Camara, Tamari; Lepaul

Marseille imaginable starting lineup:

De Lange; Weah, Egan-Riley, Aguerd, Emerson; Hojbjerg; Harit, Abdelli, Gomes, Paixo; Gouiri

We say: Rennes 3-1 Marseille

Following their hard commencement to the season, Marseille volition beryllium hopeless to assertion each 3 points connected Friday evening earlier their docket ramps up with the opening of the European campaign.

However, it is hard to disregard Rennes' caller signifier and having failed to suffer immoderate of their erstwhile six competitory matches astatine Roazhon Park, we are backing the hosts to travel retired connected apical erstwhile again successful gameweek four.

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