European football: Jacquet sustains ‘serious’ injury days after agreeing Liverpool deal | European club football

Liverpool’s new summer season signing Jérémy Jacquet has sustained a “critical” shoulder damage, in keeping with Rennes head coach Habib Beye. The 20-year-old fell awkwardly within the second half of a 3-1 defeat by Lens in Ligue 1 and appeared in agony as he left the pitch.

“For Jérémy, it’s his shoulder, and for Abdelhamid [Ait Boudlal, the other Rennes player injured] it’s muscular,” Beye mentioned in his post-match interview. “We’ll have time to see, however it’s positively fairly critical for each of them.”

Liverpool noticed off competitors from Chelsea to agree a deal to signal the extremely rated France Beneath-21 centre-back for £55m plus £5m in add-ons on 1 July on a five-year contract, with the choice of an extra 12 months. Arne Slot described Jacquet as “a really huge expertise and perhaps much more than a expertise, however we discuss expertise due to his age”.

The outcome meant Lens reclaimed high spot from Paris Saint-Germain to maintain up their surprising title problem with a tenth successive dwelling win. Esteban Lepaul steered Rennes into an early lead in northern France when he slid dwelling a move from new signing Arnaud Nordin for his tenth purpose of the season.

The previous Crystal Palace striker Odsonne Édouard introduced Lens degree earlier than half-time and Ruben Aguilar headed in a cross from Florian Thauvin to place Lens forward eight minutes into the second half.

Aguilar’s pleasure was reduce quick when he was despatched off shortly after for a second yellow card, however 10-man Lens held on and grabbed a 3rd by means of the previous Newcastle winger Allan Saint-Maximin. Lens have gained 10 of their final 11 video games within the French high flight and maintain a one-point lead over PSG, who host bitter rivals Marseille on the Parc des Princes on Sunday.

In Spain, Barcelona outclassed Mallorca 3-0 at dwelling to extend their lead on the high of La Liga. Hansi Flick’s aspect managed possession from the beginning and Marcus Rashford fired narrowly huge earlier than enjoying a key position within the opener, as Dani Olmo headed his blocked effort into the trail of Robert Lewandowski, who completed calmly within the twenty ninth minute.

Barcelona pushed on after half-time, with Marc Casado hitting the submit, and the stress advised within the 61st minute when 18-year-old Lamine Yamal struck an excellent shot from distance for his fifth purpose in consecutive matches in all competitions. Substitute Marc Bernal, additionally 18, accomplished the scoring with a high-quality solo run and low end. Barcelona moved to 58 factors, 4 away from second-placed Actual Madrid, who play Valencia on Sunday.

Earlier on Saturday, La Liga postponed Rayo Vallecano’s dwelling match towards Actual Oviedo due to the situation of the pitch on the Madrid’s aspect’s Vallecas stadium. They later moved Sevilla’s dwelling recreation towards Girona, scheduled for Saturday night, to Sunday due to adversarial climate circumstances. Actual Sociedad beat Elche 3-1 in Spain’s late recreation. Sociedad went two targets up by means of Luka Sucic and Mikel Oyarzabal earlier than André Silva pulled one again for Elche earlier than the break. Orri Oskarsson sealed the win for the hosts within the ultimate minute.

Striker Serhou Guirassy snatched the winner three minutes from time to earn second-placed Borussia Dortmund a 2-1 victory at VfL Wolfsburg that reduce Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga result in three factors. Guirassy’s tenth league purpose of the season got here on the finish of an intricate set of midfield passes as Dortmund superior to 48 factors from 21 video games, three behind Bayern, who host third-placed Hoffenheim on Sunday.

Dortmund dominated the primary half and deserved their Thirty eighth-minute lead by means of Julian Brandt, however Konstantinos Koulierakis’ 52nd-minute header put relegation-threatened Wolfsburg again within the contest they usually squandered a number of good possibilities to take the lead. Their profligacy was punished when Fabio Silva and Felix Nmecha performed a one-two on the sting of the penalty space earlier than Guirassy stole in from the left to complete with a right-foot shot.

Relegation-threatened St Pauli, whose final win was earlier than the winter break, gained 2-1 at dwelling to fourth-placed Stuttgart, who had not misplaced within the league since a 5-0 dwelling drubbing by Bayern on 6 December.

Fifth-placed Bayer Leverkusen didn’t capitalise on Stuttgart’s slip as they had been held to a 1-1 draw within the late recreation at Borussia Mönchengladbach. Yannik Engelhardt pounced to present the hosts the lead inside 10 minutes however an personal purpose by Gladbach’s Philipp Sander on the stroke of half-time ensured a share of the factors.

Mainz continued their exceptional turnaround below Swiss coach Urs Fischer, who has guided them from the underside of the desk to thirteenth in a matter of weeks, with a 2-0 win over Augsburg. Nadiem Amiri scored each targets from the spot to make it 4 wins in 5. Hamburg additionally picked up a valuable three factors, successful their first recreation on the highway this season 2-0 at bottom-placed Heidenheim. Werder Bremen had been edged out by a sensational solitary strike by Freiburg’s Jan-Niklas Beste to increase their winless streak to 11 video games.

In Serie A, Napoli’s Rasmus Højlund scored a stoppage-time penalty to grab a 3-2 victory at Genoa as they completed with 10 males however closed the hole on the highest two. Højlund, who additionally hit Napoli’s first, slotted dwelling the spot-kick 5 minutes into added time because the champions moved to 49 factors, nonetheless six adrift of leaders Inter however one behind second-placed Milan, who each have a recreation in hand.

It was a controversial penalty, after a VAR assessment discovered Genoa substitute Maxwel Cornet stood on Antonio Vergara’s foot, however a serious increase to Napoli hopes of retaining the Scudetto. Napoli performed out the final quarter of an hour with 10 males after the dismissal of defender Juan Jesus.

Guillermo Maripán was on course in time added on as Torino salvaged a 2-2 draw at relegation-threatened Fiorentina. Cesare Casadei gave Torino a first-half lead earlier than Manor Soloman and Moise Kean put Fiorentina 2-1 up. Maripán’s 94th-minute equaliser shocked the hosts, who’re in seventeenth place in Serie A and will fall into the relegation zone if Lecce get a draw or higher towards Udinese on Sunday.