On the eve of the – very short – winter break that is coming, Stade Rennais will travel to Monaco this Wednesday (9 p.m.) with the ambition to confirm its very good first part of the season. To do this, the Rennais will be keen to achieve a result in a stadium that is not very successful for them (only one victory in thirteen years) in order to secure a place on the podium for the holidays.
The podium at the break to “validate a very good first part of the season”
If they do not make it an obsession, a podium at the truce could allow Rennes to achieve their excellent level of play for three months. Bruno Genesio is aware of this: “It’s a match that can allow us to validate a very good first part of the season, whether in the league or in the cups, because all the objectives have been met for the moment. But whatever happens, we will have already had a very, very good first game, the results will be good, and there will be plenty of games to reach the objectives, to possibly play a little more than what we had planned. So nothing will be frozen no matter what happens after this game.”
One way to take some pressure off his group, but for the first time this season Bruno Genesio mentions the possibility of seeing the club’s objectives revised upwards in the league. Deprived of Nayef Aguerd, absent at the last minute for a pain in the ankle, the Rennais will however have to deliver a big match in the Principality to dream a little. Flavien Tait: “We approach it like the other games. We must try to end the year well, to be in the continuity of what we are doing. Of course, finishing on the podium at the break would be a bit of our Christmas present. But the most important thing is to keep moving forward, to take points because there is a big second part of the season coming up.”
Monaco struggling against the big guys
Opposite, the Monaco of Niko Kovac has enough to shake the Red and Black: in their last five games, the Monegasques have bowed only once, against PSG. But this statistic also proves that Monaco is struggling against the big guys, with no Ligue 1 wins against clubs competing in Europe this season. In Rennes to continue this disease of the Monegasques this Wednesday evening in the Principality. a podium assured at the truce is at the end of the road.