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Rennes defends its title in Saint-Etienne
Who will face PSG winner Lyon on Wednesday (5-1) in the final on April 25 at Stade de France? Saint Etienne receives the title holder on Thursday (8:55 p.m.), Reindeer, 3rd in Ligue 1 and struggling for the final podium. With Sunday’s defeat in Lyon, the Stéphanois have scored just one point in six Ligue 1 matches since the start of February, a results crisis which made them fall back to 16th in the Championship with only two points ahead of Nîmes , current roadblocker.
Two opposite trajectories, therefore: Saint-Etienne has only the Coupe de France to save its season, while Rennes aims for the double in the Coupe de France while dreaming of a first qualification in the Champions League.
Paris crunches OL
Paris Saint-Germain reaches the final of the Coupe de France for the sixth time in a row! The Parisians dominated the Lyonnais at Groupama Stadium (5-1). The score does not reflect the physiognomy of the match. Shaken in the first period, the men of Thomas Tuchel took advantage of the exclusion of Marçal at the hour of play to unfold. Martin Terrier opened the scoring at the start of the match before Kylian M’bappé equalized on a corner in stride. Marçal’s hand in his area in the 59th minute earned him a second yellow card and offered a penalty to his opponents that Neymar was in a hurry to transform. With superb solo action, M’bappé then weighed down the brand and then offered a hat-trick at the very end of the match. Pablo Sarabia also went there with his goal.
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