Paris (AFP) - Monaco continued its uprising and strengthened its chances of competing for a ticket to participate in the European Champions League competition next season, by defeating Rennes III, 3-2, on Friday, in the opening of the thirty-second stage of the French Football Championship.

Rennes scored early, specifically in the third minute, through midfielder Flavien Tait, with a header from close range, after a pass from Malian Hamari Traoré.

But his joy lasted only nine minutes, as Brazilian defender Fanderson equalized with a powerful right-footed shot, following a pass from Russian international Alexander Golovin (12).

Wissam Ben Yedder gave Monaco the lead when he took advantage of a German header, Kevin Volland, near the middle of the stadium, so he penetrated into the area and hit it hard with his right hand to the right of the goalkeeper (57), raising his score to 19 goals in second place on the scorers list, one goal behind the Paris Saint-Germain striker. International leader Kylian Mbappe.

Monaco dealt the final blow to Rennes by scoring the third goal when Aurelien Tchoameni cut a ball for the defender, Omari warmed up, and he penetrated into the area and passed it to Fanderson, who turned it crawling in front of the goal, so the Dutchman Miron Boadu, substitute for the injured captain Ben Yedder, followed it into the empty goal (77).

Rennes got a penalty kick in the second minute of stoppage time, and Martin Terrier successfully beat it (90 + 3), raising his score to 19 goals, in second place, sharing with Ben Yedder.

It is the fourth successive victory and the fifteenth for Monaco this season, so it rose to fourth place temporarily with 53 points, three points behind Rennes, who finished third, qualifying for the preliminary round of the prestigious continental competition, and by one point in front of fifth Strasbourg and two points in front of Nice VI.

Strasbourg will visit Troyes on Sunday, while Nice will play at home to Lorient on Sunday.

On the other hand, Rennes neglected the workers of the land and the audience to achieve the second successive victory, the eighteenth this season, and the seventh in its last eight matches in which it did not taste the taste of loss, and to catch up with Marseille, who qualified second directly to the Champions League, and who is in a hot “Clasico” match Sunday against its host Paris. Leader Saint-Germain.

Rennes, which suffered its first loss since its 1-0 loss to host Paris Saint-Germain, on February 11, froze at 56 points in third place.

The stage will be completed on Saturday with two meetings between Saint-Etienne and Brest, and Lille with Lens.

Sunday also plays Nantes with Angers, Montpellier with Reims, Metz with Clermont-Ferrand, Troyes with Strasbourg, and Lyon with Bordeaux.