Stade Rennais has the opportunity to send FC Nantes to Ligue 2 or almost, in the event of a victory this Sunday. In recent years, the Rouge et Noir have made a habit of torturing their rivals at Roazhon Park. We can thus think of the crazy reversal in 2020 (3-2 victory with two goals after the 93rd), or the 4-1 of 2016. One of the first great feats of arms of a certain Ousmane Dembélé.
The native of Vernon, then aged 18, had already scored six goals since the start of the Ligue 1 season. Against Nantes, he quite simply scored the first hat-trick of his career, in the space of just one half.
From the 1st minute of the match, “Dembouz” sent a right shot into the top corner of the Canaries goalkeeper. After a second from Grosicki (15th), the future French international once again found the net on a long free kick that no one could deflect (22nd). Just before the break, the Rennes crack tormented poor Lorik Cana once again to score a hat-trick (45th).
Dembélé, Barça must have liked
The next day, L’Equipe revealed that FC Barcelona had traveled to Brittany to supervise Dembélé, and the Blaugranas undoubtedly liked what they saw. At the end of the season, the future 2018 world champion will finally join Borussia Dortmund, for 35 million euros, before flying to Barcelona the following summer for an XXL check (148 million euros).
It is in 2023 that he will return to France, to Paris Saint-Germain, with the continuation that we know. In January-February 2025, he will sign the other two hat-tricks of his career to date, against Stuttgart (1-4) in the Champions League and on the Brest pitch (2-5).
