After the defeat against Nice, Jorge Sampaoli debriefed the game, and defended Steve Mandanda, guilty of Nice's second goal.
This Friday, for the big return of Ligue 1 at the start of 2025, Stade Rennais lost to OGC Nice (3-2). It must be said that the news is quite heated on the SRFC side at the moment, but the Breton club is still stuck in 12th place.
Rennes hopes that it will quickly be able to count on new recruits to bring in fresh blood, like goalkeeper Brice Samba (RC Lens), even if it looks complicated. Especially since Steve Mandanda experienced an ordeal in Nice, he who was the author of a big restart error on Nice's second goal. After the meeting, his coach Jorge Sampaoli did not want to blame him.
“Steve’s situation is complicated”
“It was unforced errors that cost us the match, we came to win, we believed in it. The score at half-time was tough, we then tried to attack with a lot of players in the opposing half. It was difficult to come back.
We lacked inventiveness when Nice started and fell back. The team tried, what I regret are these mistakes because we could have come back at half-time with a draw. There are always things to build on, we will continue to work hard with the same standards that we imposed on ourselves this evening.
Steve's situation is complicated by rumors. The important thing is that he’s our goalkeeper today, that’s clear. He is a very experienced goalkeeper, but it still affects him as a human being.”
Comments reported by the official SRFC website.
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