After the setback in Bordeaux on Sunday (0-1), Rennes technical director Florian Maurice took stock on Wednesday, while the Breton team (7th) is two points behind Lens and OM in the race for 5th place in Europe (or even 6th if PSG or Monaco wins the Coupe de France) three days from the end.
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It is therefore the least well placed while a hell of a program is looming against teams concerned by the title, the podium and the maintenance: first the reception of PSG, Sunday, before a trip to Monaco (37th day) and the reception of Nîmes to finish. Maurice is at the time of mobilization.
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“The Bordeaux match is a bit hard to pass”
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“We certainly don’t have the cards in hand. After a very good series, the Bordeaux match (0-1) is a bit hard to go through. But ten against eleven after a very very severe red card (Steven Nzonzi excluded after eight minutes of play), even if we were not successful, we showed over the course of the match that we could have won it, with an excellent state of mind for me. This is what we have to rely on, with a little more efficiency, and with that commitment, I think we can achieve something good. The players are on hold, they want to finish well, he continued.
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This assumes three big matches. However, Rennes has shown that it is capable of it, in the past as in the experience of this season. We were able to rely on sequences of play which allowed us to cast doubt on certain teams like Chelsea or Lyon at Roazhon Park, so we can compete against this type of team there ”, he added, thinking of PSG, which Rennes will face without Nzonzi or Eduardo Camavinga, suspended.
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“Three finals”
A PSG who has just lost sight of the C1 final: “I think there is a lot of disappointment (at their home), afterwards it’s a champion team, which will also need to take up other challenges, in particular to win the Championship, so we may have a revengeful team, considers Maurice. Now, what happens on their side is theirs, I am especially interested in what we are going to do, and we are all very mobilized and focused on this match and the other two behind. It will be three Champions League matches, or three finals, you can call them what you want, but it will be three high-level matches, and I am convinced that this group is capable of being present in this kind of event. “
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