What if the Rennais Stadium had heavy legs Sunday against Nice? After showing a resplendent form, almost insolent throughout the fall, the Red and Black seemed to mark the occasion physically at Roazhon Park. It was all the more shouting in the face of the low and compact block desired by Christophe Galtier, who also proved to be very athletic with Dante, Lemina, Rosario, Todibo, to name a few.
The solution to destabilize this kind of teams is to make them run. “We tried to make them move from right to left, but verticality was difficult to find”, regrets Benjamin Bourigeaud. It is also necessary to combine, to play short in the axis “With supporting players, short trips, one-two, repeated passes”, Explain Bruno Genesio. But his players abused crosses, after long races on the wings
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Already twenty-five matches
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In the end, we have the feeling that it is Rennes who got tired of trying to get around this wall. Hamari Traoré came out at 79e minute with cramps, Benjamin Bourigeaud four minutes later because he was tired, Bruno Genesio said after the match.
“The end of matches is difficult, we spend a lot of energy, especially wanting to play as we do, explains the scorer of the day. It’s the life of a group too, you have to bring freshness at the end of the match to try to get back to the score, it’s a choice of the coach. For my part, he asked me if it was okay, I told him that it was starting to be hard on the physical level. “
No wonder it’s starting to pull. Stade Rennais has played twenty-five matches since August 8, when Ligue 1 resumed, i.e. one match every five days, but to which must be added the international matches for around ten players in the workforce. Fortunately, “It was easier to digest the efforts with this positive dynamic”, further specifies “Bourige”.
The repetition of matches is starting to be felt, but it is perhaps a non-match that will ultimately have the most weight. This trip for nothing to London not only left a bitter taste in Rennes, but also traces in the legs, disrupted the week of preparation. “Paradoxically, at the start of the match, we felt that we were less dynamic in the pressing to recover the ball. We can think that this empty trip from Tottenham played “, suppose Genesio. “There was fatigue even if we didn’t play, it’s always tiring on the nervous and physical level. Because the trip sometimes hurts a little in the legs ”, ranchérit Benjamin Bourigeaud.
With a week of normal preparation, Stade Rennais will not have the excuse of the failure against Lorient, in the Coupe de France, on Saturday. Better to quickly find the right carburetion because the trip to Monaco on Wednesday 22 December was not easy.
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