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Saint-Étienne troubles continue
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Following the traumatic 3-0 loss to Sochaux, SRFC responded with an important 1-0 victory over Saint-Étienne. While the victory was important as the first without Jimmy Briand, it also pushed Alain Perrin’s under-performing club closer to relegation.
The backdrop of the match was in its simplest form, les Verts, fighting to avoid relegation to Ligue 2. [...]
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Les Rennais first venture without Jimmy Briand
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SRFC’s first venture without Jimmy Briand can only be called a total disaster as they lost 3-0 to Sochaux. For les Rouge et Noir with the loss the painful realization that hopes for European Football have been lost is now true.
Tactically Asamoah Gyan took Briand’s place with Mickaël Pagis in support. The start of the [...]
Category: Team NewsRennais visits Montbéliard
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The championnat returns with SRFC traveling to Montbéliard to face Les Lionceaux at stade Bonal. For the hosts, the year has not been kind to them and the match will be met with the fervor of a fight to avoid relegation whereas M. Lacombe must now adjust to the absence of Jimmy Briand. For [...]
Category: Team NewsKader 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 [...]
Category: Team NewsJimmy 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 [...]
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