Overview

• Mahdi Camara was sent off about five minutes into his first start for catching Dermane Karim high, and Christopher Wooh received a straight red six minutes later for denying Aiyegun Tosin a clear chance.
• Opta reported no previous instance in its Ligue 1 database, which dates to 1992-93, of a team having two players dismissed so early in a match.
• Reduced to nine, Rennes held out until first-half stoppage time before Sambou Soumano scored, with Tosin, Pablo Pagis and Théo Le Bris adding goals after the break for Lorient.
• Coach Habib Beye acknowledged a discipline problem, saying the team has swung from not enough aggression last season to too much now.
• The defeat followed a troubled spell for Rennes that included Mikayil Faye oversleeping and missing the opener, Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal’s suspension, and Moussa Al-Tamari being dropped for arriving late, while elsewhere Lille beat Monaco 1-0 on Olivier Giroud’s stoppage-time winner before he missed a penalty.