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Kader Mangane suspended to end of the season
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The news of last few days has been terrible for SRFC. After losing Jimmy Briand in a training grounds practice with France, the LFP (Ligue de Football Professionnel) has suspended Kader Mangane till the end of the season due to his badly timed tackle of Valenciennes’ Jonathan Lacourt that resulted in the player breaking [...]
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Jimmy Briand out with serious knee injury
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The pride of Les Rennais Rod Fanni and Jimmy Briand being selected for France’s World Cup hopes have quickly soured as the striker suffered a serious knee injury in training, tearing the nterior cruciate ligament.
The injury occurred during training at Clairefontaine when Briand collided with Toulouse goalkeeper Cédric Carrasso. While original reports suggested the injury [...]
Category: Team Newsle match nul
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SRFC hopes for a victory against Valenciennes ended in a unsatisfying nil draw as both sides ended up playing with ten men. The match commenced with M. Lacombe’s side looking focused and came close to finding the net at the eighth minute as Jérôme Leroy’ corner is redirected by Mickaël Pagis towards the net before [...]
Category: Team NewsLes Rennais move forward in Coupe de France!
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Favoured heavily, SRFC advance to the semi-finals of the Coupe de France with a 2 – 0 victory over Rodez. The match was not taken lightly as cases such as these are prone to upsets, especially since Paris Saint-Germain fell for much of the same reason to Rodez. Guy Lacombe spared nothing in this première [...]
Category: Team NewsLes Rennais!
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If the recent resurgence of les Rouge et Noir was like a cold winter coming to an end, Saturday’s triumphant comeback draw certainly made the statement that Rennais is ready to fight for a European spot. After falling down by two goals at Léon-Bollée to Daniel Jeandupeux’ Le Muc 72, Rennais poured back to level [...]
Category: Team NewsL’adversaire
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Like a cold winter coming to end, les Rouge et Noir have steadily climbed back up the championnat with the hint of spring to come. L’adversaire, in as much as it has been the club they face each week, has it has been their self but it appears those step backwards have stopped as Guy [...]
Category: Team Newsinvincibilité
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Les Rouge et Noir perfect week with the mid-week Coupe de France triumph continued with a great 2-0 victory over the Auxerrois in the championnat. Only three points off l’OM, Rennais’ opportunity for the Champions League is straight before them now.
The Bourguignons team, near perfect over the previous five matches were victimized in the ninth [...]
Category: Team NewsBourguignons
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As the mid-winter gloom lifts over les Rouge et Noir must now deal with the Auxerrois who are finally showing their rich promise. The Bourguignons are coming off a near perfect February that after three victories was capped with a draw to Toulouse. Jean Fernandez has crafted the right mix and made use of the [...]
Category: Team NewsRouge et Noir confidently advance in Coupe de France
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Les Rouge et Noir confidently advance in Coupe de France with a 3-0 victory over Brittany neighbours Lorient. The lorientais revenge for an earlier loss drifted softly into the evening chill as SRFC controlled the match with ease.
Akin to a training ground workout, Mickaël Pagis and Elderson Echiéjilé worked the ball up to Romain Danzé [...]
Category: Team NewsLorientais derby
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The Coupe de France match between les Rouge & Noir and Brittany neighbours Lorient today is marked with a hint of revenge for lorientais.
Falling 2-1 to Rennais just before the holiday break, Christian Gourcuff’s les Merlus are one of the best managed clubs in France, balancing the need of local development with budgetary constraints. However [...]
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