Behind the untouchable PSG, Rennes have the second-best record in Ligue 1 at home this season. When playing at Roazhon Park, Rennes average 2.1 points per game. Although they have already lost there three times (against Reims, Lille and Nice), Bruno Genesio’s men have made Roazhon Park the scene of their benchmark victories, against Paris, Lyon, Clermont or more recently Bordeaux. .
The fervor of Roazhon Park hailed by the coach and the players
How far away, and so much the better, the time when observers castigating the “cathedral atmosphere” of Roazhon Park. Today, thanks in large part to the Roazhon Celtic Kop, the fervor of the Rennes arena is hailed by all. And when you ask Gaëtan Laborde what explains Rennes’ good results at home, it’s obviously one of the arguments cited by the Rennes striker: “Already, when you play at home, you have to create that strength. The teams have to come here thinking that it’s going to be very hard to bring something back. We have to use that to be efficient, to score goals, to win matches. We have a public that is great to help us in that so I think we have everything to play good games at home.“
Bruno Genesio supports: “It is true that there is an atmosphere, when the public can come to the stadium, which is exceptional here and which, certainly, helps us enormously to transcend ourselves.“Despite the RCK being put on hold for several games and the gauge against Bordeaux, the players and the coach were able to draw on the energy of the stadium to get, already, 8 successes at home since the start of the season.
A more efficient slick game at home
In its lair, Stade Rennais has the second best attack (27 goals scored) in Ligue 1, and the second best defense (8 goals conceded). And if he praises the public, Bruno Genesio also sees in the style of his team reasons for his good performances at Roazhon Park: “We also have a game, I think, which makes us perform better at home. Because we have a lot of risk taking, a lot of players who participate in the attacks, so inevitably we create chances, we score goals. But you have to keep in mind the notion of balance when you have the ball.”
This Sunday, it is the Trojans who present themselves at Roazhon Park. Troyes which presents the penultimate record of the championship away, with ten points taken all the same, and three victories out of their bases since the start of the season.