Stade Rennais-Monaco. Experimental defense for crucial meeting
Stade Rennais may only have three defenders busy this season, but we will start to exhaust the list of possible hinge combinations. And this even if the duo Warmed Omari – Nayef Aguerd has long been in doubt in the eyes of Bruno Genesio. But between the start of the season when Omari was still only seen as an alternative to Loïc Badé, and the rare times when Aguerd was lacking, the Rouge et Noir coach had to try several experiments.
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Four defeats in six games without Aguerd
Tonight, without Badé or Aguerd, Genesio will again have to rely on an unprecedented hinge, but this time for one of the most anticipated meetings of this end of the season. We had already seen Badé – Aguerd and Omari – Badé, we also had the right to a Santamaria – Badé in the Coupe de France in Nancy at the beginning of January. A conclusive experience on an individual level for Baptiste Santamaria, which probably gives him an advantage against Lesley Ugochukwu and Jeanuel Belocian against the dangerous Monegasque attack. The last two mentioned are the other options made aloud by Genesio, who maintained the mystery yesterday at a press conference, if he hadn’t already made his choice.
“We are going to think about several solutions, the one that will best correspond to that of tomorrow (this evening), evokes the Rennes technician. Baptiste can be a solution, Lesley can be another, Jeanuel can be one too since it is his position. We will carefully analyze all of this to make the best possible choice. »
In any case, the timing of the illness contracted by Aguerd is far from ideal, especially when we think back to the last half hour suffered in Reims six days ago, during which panic took hold of the surface. of Rennes repair. Or the difficulties encountered by Omari in recent weeks.
The figures presented in any case that Stade Rennais did not really respond when it had to do without its Moroccan international: six games (four in Ligue 1, two in the Coupe de France), four defeats and only two victories against in Lorient and Bordeaux, two of the least indecisive opponents seen at Roazhon Park this season. The test seems much tougher tonight.
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