Rennes turn deficit into 2-1 win over OFI in Europa League

Rennes beat their visitors OFI 2-1 in a match held as part of the second round of the league stage in the Europa League, at 22:00 Damascus time on 15 October.

OFI opened the scoring early through Taxiarchis Fountas in the 10th minute, before Rennes turned the result around in the second half with two goals scored by Mahamadou Aboubakar Nagida in the 76th minute and Abdelhamid Aït Boudlal in the 90th minute.

Mahamadou Aboubakar Nagida won the man of the match award after scoring a goal and playing the full 90 minutes, with a rating of 8.05.

Rennes dominated the course of the match with a possession rate of 67 percent against 33 percent for OFI, and also had 25 attempts compared to just two for their visitors, recording a big difference in the number of corner kicks at 13 to 3. The expected goals value reached 1.74 for Rennes against 0.12 for OFI.

The match did not see any red cards, while each team received two yellow cards, and the match was officiated by referee Andrea Colombo.

With 4 points, Rennes rose to 13th place in the standings after playing two matches, winning one and drawing the other, while OFI's tally remained frozen at 3 points in 18th place after a win and a loss from two matches.