After finishing 2024 against the first three, Guingamp, Milizac and Vire, the Paotred-Dispount start 2025 in the unknown in Rennes. But it’s almost “four in a row”.
N3 (12th day). Stade Rennais (B) – Paotred-Dispount, this Saturday (6 p.m.)
And now Rennes! 2025 begins as 2024 ended for the Paotred-Dispount, who move from one year to the next from the top three to the fourth thief. Except that by losing on the green carpet, during the break, their match against Saint-Lô (1-1 on the field) for having fielded a suspended player (the young international Joël-Emmanuel Coulibaly), the Rennes reserves left their fourth place in Vannes. But they nonetheless remain one of the four big names that the Gabéricois will meet “in a row”.
Which Stade Rennais?
With the hope, of course, of doing better at La Piverdière than against Vire (1-0), Guingamp (2-0) and Milizac (3-4) who beat all three of them. The stakes are worth it because Mikaël Caoudal’s players spent the holidays in the wrong car (11th with 13 points) but the ranking is so tight at this level that they would catch up with the Rennais (6th with 16 points) by beating.
Mission impossible? This partly depends on the opponent that the Paotred-Dispount will find this Saturday on their route. What reserve does the SRFC have? The one who started the season by blowing the show (four victories in a row at home)? Or the one who, since mid-October, has set the mixer to cold at home (three defeats and one draw)?
Quéméré returns to Rennes
But it will not have escaped the Gabéricois that Rennes still ended 2024 with a victory at Lorient (0-1) and that its pro reserve status requires it to find, at the start of 2025, a second wind at La Piverdière. A feat from the partners of Thibaud Quéméré, the former Rennais who returns from suspension, would be all the more beautiful.
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