Where to see the match, kick-off time, team compositions: GOAL reveals all the useful information about OL-Rennes.
OL, Génésio’s favorite opponent
Eliminated without glory Wednesday evening in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France by FC Nantes, OL (9th with 44 points) will have a hard time securing a European place for next season.
The Bad Gones, the main group of supporters of the club, have also announced that they will boycott this match: “The collective purge inflicted on us by a soulless and valueless team deserves nothing but contempt. Against Rennes, it will be without us. »
Stade Rennais (6th with 50 points) also hopes to take advantage of this bad atmosphere which reigns in Lyon to come and win and extend Bruno Génésio’s series of invincibility against his former club.
Date, time and location of Lyon-Rennes
On which channel to watch the Lyon-Rennes match?
In France, the match between Olympique Lyonnais and Stade Rennais will be broadcast on Prime Video.
Streaming to see the Lyon-Rennes match
In France, it will be possible to see the Lyon-Rennes match in streaming on the Prime Video application.
The probable compositions of Lyon-Rennes
As against FC Nantes in the Coupe de France, OL will be without Malo Gusto and Amin Sarr who are injured. Victim of a blow against the Canaries, Dejan Lovren is uncertain.
On the Rennais side, Lorenz Assignon and Xeka will miss the trip to Lyon because they are both in the re-athleticization phase, as are Martin Terrier (knee) and Adrien Truffert (ankle) who are out until the end of the season.
On loan from OL to Rennes, Karl Toko-Ekambi will not be allowed to play this match due to an agreement between the two clubs.
The statistics to know before Lyon-Rennes
● Lyon have lost their last 3 Ligue 1 matches against Rennes and have not lost any more against the same opponent in the top flight since November 1991-January 1993 against Nantes (4).
● Lyon have lost only one of their last 10 matches in Ligue 1 (5 wins, 4 draws), it was at Auxerre on February 17 (1-2).
● Rennes have lost 7 of their 14 Ligue 1 matches since the post-World Cup resumption (6 wins, 1 draw), only Angers (11), Ajaccio (11) and Troyes (9) have lost more often to the period. The SRFC had remained undefeated in their previous 11 meetings in the top flight (8 wins, 3 draws).
● Lyon have won only 2 of their last 10 Ligue 1 home games (5 draws, 3 losses), that was against Lille in October 2022 (1-0) and Lens in February 2023 (2-1) .
● Rennes have returned 3 clean sheets in their last 3 trips to Ligue 1, that’s as many as in the previous 32 (48 goals conceded).
● No team has scored fewer goals from a set piece in Ligue 1 2022-23 than Rennes (6) and Lyon (8). The SRFC is even the only one still silent of its kind in the elite in 2023.
● Lyon and Rennes are the 2 teams which grant the most playing time to players born in the 21st century in the 5 major leagues this season. Players born in 2001 or later represent 35% of the minutes played for the Lyonnais and 28% for the Rennais.
● Bradley Barcola has been involved in 4 goals in his last 3 Ligue 1 matches (2 goals, 2 assists), that’s as many as in his first 27 with Lyon (2 goals, 2 assists as well).
● Lyon is the current Ligue 1 team against which Benjamin Bourigeaud has been most decisive (3 goals, 3 assists). He could play his 200th match with Rennes in the top flight, becoming the 3rd player to reach this total in the 21st century after Romain Danzé (323) and Benoît Costil (219).
● Since his arrival on the Rennes bench in March 2021, Bruno Génésio has won his 3 Ligue 1 matches against Lyon, his former club, with a total of 11 goals scored and 5 conceded.
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