Lille won the Rennes and Marseille defeated Lens in the French League, while Lyon lost with Brest, with Jorge Maciel taking interim command after Paulo Fonseca's departure.
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08/11/2026
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O Lille beat Rennes today, and Marseille won Lens in the French Football League, while Lyon lost with Brest, with Jorge Maciel replacing new Sporting coach Paulo Fonseca.
Throwing away, Lille advanced the marker at 24 minutes through the extreme Soriba Diaoune, but the advanced Senegalese Boulaye Dia restored equality six minutes later.
In the second half, the Belgian Nathan Ngoy took advantage of Diaoune's assistance and fixed the 2–1 final, which returned the second position to Lille (21 points), which had been temporarily occupied by the Paris FC (20 points), after the victory on the eve.
The young defense Gonçalo Oliveira, international sub-21 Portuguese recruited to Benfica B, was a titular in Rennes (eight with 16 points), and debuted in Ligue 1, after having played for the first time in the last match of the team in Liga Europa, while Tiago Santos failed Lille due to injury.
Marseilles won out the Lens – which came from the humiliating win by 9-1 imposed in the middle of the week by the Como na ‘Champions’ – also by 2-1, thanks to the goals of the Algerian striker Amine Gouiri, just at two minutes, and the advanced Keyliane Abdallah, at 82, with the experienced Florian Thauvin doing the only attempt of the hosts, at 20.
The international sub-21 Luso Mezian Mesloub was used in the Lens, 11th with 13 points, having been launched in the field at 69 minutes, but the triumph remained with Marseille, which ascended to the fourth rank with 18 points, exceeding Lyon in the table.
Paulo Fonseca’s former team, now in the leadership of Sporting, and who was guided by Portuguese coach Jorge Maciel, lost in Brest by 2-0 and went down to fifth place with 17 points, while the opponent is ninth with 15.
Also with 17 points is Nice, sixth ranked, which won by 2-0 the Angers (16th with eight points), with the Portuguese goalkeeper Anthony Lopes in the eleven title.
And the same result was applied by Lorient (10th with 15th) to Le Havre (18th and last classified with only two points).
In the other game of the day in France, the Le Mans (15th with eight points) and Monaco tied to a ball (1-1), with the defense Ninho the holder on the defensive axis of the formation of the principality, seventh ranked with 16 points.