LaLigaVillarreal piled the pressure on under-fire Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane as they snatched a 1-0 win over the struggling LaLiga champions at the Bernabeu. Ligue 1Florian Thauvin missed a penalty, scored a header, set up a goal and hit the crossbar from 50 yards as Marseille won 3-0 at Rennes in Ligue 1 on Saturday. Thauvin saw his fiercely-struck penalty impressively tipped wide by Tomas Koubek in the 28th minute, but Marseille made the breakthrough seven minutes later. Yoshinori Muto opened the scoring for the visitors on 26 minutes and Alexander Hack doubled their advantage just after the half-hour. Benjamin Hubner put the visitors ahead six minutes before half-time, but Czech wing-back Theodor Gebre Selassie restored parity just after the hour mark.

Source: Irish Examiner January 13, 2018 18:09 UTC