Europa League matchday 4, Wednesday: Rennes and Olympiakos draw 0–0 in a match brought forward a day

One match on Wednesday, and no goals. Rennes and Olympiakos Piraeus drew 0–0 at Roazhon Park in a game UEFA moved forward from Thursday to a 15:30 UTC kick-off, because the French authorities could not guarantee security during strikes and protests planned for Thursday. Both sides are still unbeaten, and Olympiakos lead the table until the other 34 clubs play on Thursday.

The afternoon

Rennes 0–0 Olympiakos Piraeus: Olympiakos had 58 per cent of the ball and twelve shots to Rennes's nine, but Rennes put more on target, four to three, and Stefan Ortega made four saves to Brice Samba's three. Expected goals were 0.96 to 0.50 in Olympiakos's favour. Franceinfo reports that Mousa Al-Tamari hit the post for Rennes on 31, and that an Olympiakos own goal by Bruno Onyemaechi did not stand because Al-Tamari was offside; Al-Tamari told Canal+ that a point was "pas si mal" against a strong side. The only bookings went to Valentin Rongier on 88 and to Rennes's coach Franck Haise, for dissent, on 90+3. Rennes have one win and three draws, six points; Olympiakos have three wins and a draw, ten.

The table after Wednesday

Olympiakos have ten points from four matches, one more than Benfica, Bayer Leverkusen, Bournemouth and Ferencváros, who have won all three of theirs and play on Thursday. Rennes are on six from four. The full standings are on the Europa League page.

Numbers to know

• Olympiakos's first draw of this league phase; they have conceded one goal in four matches.
• Rennes have drawn three of their four matches and not lost.
• Nine substitutions in all: five by Olympiakos, four by Rennes.

Next up

Thursday completes matchday 4 with 17 matches. At 17:45 UTC, AC Milan v Ferencváros, Crystal Palace v 1899 Hoffenheim, Real Sociedad v Lyon and Sparta Praha v Bournemouth are among eight; at 20:00 UTC, Bayer Leverkusen v Marseille, AZ Alkmaar v Juventus, Benfica v Lech Poznań, Celtic v Beşiktaş and Sunderland v Dinamo Zagreb are among nine. On matchday 5, on 26 November, Olympiakos host AC Milan and Rennes visit NEC Nijmegen. Every match is on the Europa League page.

Sources for the context: UEFA, franceinfo.