The Rennais Stadium travels to Brest this Sunday for a Breton derby under which he hopes to keep his current unbeaten streak.
A big defensive test
Brest has not lost at home since October 25 against Strasbourg (3-0), for its part Rennes remains on 6 matches without defeat. Two dynamics are opposed, two styles of play too. Rennes and its possession game will be faced with a very direct attacking team in full confidence. “Brest is a team that manages to create a lot of offensive situations in different registers, Julien Stéphan analyzes. It’s a team that goes against and goes very quickly with Honorat, Faivre, Cardona in depth. It is a team that prepares and sucks its opponent and which plays directly behind, putting a lot of people in the last 30 meters. It is an atypical and efficient team. “
The solidity of the Rennes defensive block will therefore be put to the test of Brest’s dynamism. “It will be a big defensive test on our general organization, on our ability to limit their center and to organize ourselves in the area to be little endangered or in any case as little as possible. “
Press up?
Faced with the direct game of Brest, it is better to press high to annihilate the opportunities, as Grenier had done against Lyon. But beware tempers Julien Stéphan. “When we go looking for them, we must not be mistaken. You have to get the ball back because if not at a minimum, they have four players on the defensive line and when they touch them it can go very quickly so you mustn’t be unstructured against this kind of opponent. We will therefore alternate phases of pressing and phases of replacement but in any case when we trigger pressing against them we must recover the ball. “
Terrier en pointe?
After the benchmark match against Lyon, why change the system? Martin Terrier should therefore start at the forefront of the attack. “It’s an option. He was able to make big matches on the side, he brings depth, technical subtlety, also connection with others “, explains Julien Stéphan,” he was able to keep the ball to be fair and clean in the small game, in the discounts and he was also very interesting in the diversity of his races in the depth even if he was not always touched. It has a really very interesting call quality.
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