Yesterday evening Ligue 1 resumed its rights after 3 weeks of stoppage with a Nice Nice – Rennes, a match won by the Aiglons 3 to 2 and where the former goalkeeper of the Olympique de Marseille, Steve Mandanda, visited guilty of a gross blunder on Nice's second goal…
In the 34th minute of play, and while the two teams were neck and neck, the Rennes goalkeeper completely missed his kick and offered the 2-1 goal to Sofiane Diop who was not asking for so much. At the end of the match, several Rennes gave their support to Mandanda including his coach, Jorge Sampaoli…
“There is a lot of speculation…”
After this huge error which certainly did not help his team to get a result in Nice, the Argentine coach actually came to give his full support to the French goalkeeper at the microphone of DAZN:
« It's a difficult situation, there's a lot of speculation, it's definitely not easy for the player who has to play the match. He is a very experienced player and above all he is a human being, who also suffers, because there is a lot of talk about him in the press and the fact that he could leave the club. I understand his discomfort and I'm sorry for what happened today. »
In the meantime, the Rennais are only in 12th place in the championship, four points from the red zone, before the other matches of the day and the reception of Olympique de Marseille next week…
also read: Ligue 1: Nice is off to a good start to the year, Lille and Lyon on track this Saturday… The J16 program!
