Carlos Bocanegra and Rennes up to 3rd place with the win, a point behind Marseille and 8 points behind Ligue 1 leaders Lyon.

The win takes Rennes into 6th place with 19 points, just 5 behind Ligue1 leaders Lyon.

Bocanegra went to full 9o, picking up a yellow in the 16th minute.

Wow… impressive 3 - nil win over league leaders with 19ts, Lyon.

Rennes starting line-up —

Nicolas Douchez, Patrice Luzi – Carlos Bocanegra, Rod Fanni, Lucien Aubey, Kader Mangane, Bira Dembele, Elderson Echiejile – Stéphane Mbia, Prince Oniangue, Olivier Thomert, Romain Danzé, Fabien Lemoine – Sylvain Wiltord, Mickaël Pagis, Jimmy Briand, Moussa Sow, Jires Kembo Ekoko.

The win puts Rennes in a tie for 7th place with 10 points, 9 pts behind leaders Lyon who they’ll face next week.

1 - 1 result.

With scoring the all important away goal in a 2 - 1 loss last week, Rennes came back and got the 2 - nil result at home that puts them through to face the Freaky, Deeky Dutch side FC Twente.

Absolutely massive 3 points for the US National Team in Guatemala tonight on the road with the winner coming in the 60th minute from our boy Carlos Bocanegra.

While he won’t get the assist on the goal, Brian Ching’s pick on Los’ defender was the only reason that goal happened.

And well done by the boys for not getting sucked into the tactics of the Guatemalan team.

Next up - Away at Cuba in Havana on September 6th on ESPN2.