Seko Fofana explains why this is the total crisis in Rennes!

Fourth rank of rank for Stade Rennais this Saturday, with this 3-2 setback on the lawn of AS Monaco. While waiting for the rest of the matches of this 19th day of the championship, the Breton stable is a sad fifteenth place, and could even be a barragist in the event that FC Nantes manages to obtain, if only one point, Facing OL this afternoon (5:15 p.m.). Clearly, the appointment of Jorge Sampaoli has not changed anything for the Rennes, and two and a half months after the arrival of the Argentinian coach on the sidelines of the Roazhon Park, the situation is even worse than with Julien Stéphan.

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Stade Rennais also turned to 1.1 points taken per match on average under the orders of the French coach, who directed 10 Ligue 1 games this season. With the Argentinian, at the head of Rennes for 8 games, the average of points dropped to 0.8 points gleaned per game. The Breton club has already lost 12 times this season in the league. Over the past 8 seasons – excluding that of COVID – the Breton club has finished with 12 losses each time. Suffice to say that except miracle and crazy invincibility series, the 12 defeats will be well exceeded during this exercise 2024/2025. Outside, the assessment is catastrophic, with a single point taken in nine encounters played far from Rennes, a draw and eight defeats. Stats that make the red and the worst Ligue 1 team on the go.

Seko Fofana lets go

And internally, it also seems to heat. After the meeting, Seko Fofana took the floor and notably made quite hard remarks on the choices of his coach Jorge Sampaoli. “It is sure that if I had been a coach, there are certain choices that might have been different. But the coach has ideas and also does with the players he has. We tried things this week, some worked, others less. When we start the match, we trust, we make things going well. We follow the coach instructions. Everything is not perfect either, but we have to rely on our qualities because to want to adapt too much to certain situations, unfortunately we pay it cash. The best defense is the attack. We have to play on our strengths without waiting for us to take goals to do things normally ”explained the Ivorian midfielder, who arrived in Rennes this winter.

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For his part, the Argentinian tactician wants to be rather confident and reassuring about his ability to get Rennes out of the crisis. “We always feel threatened, but I also feel that I have the capacity to do something for this club, to get it out of a difficult situation”he told Monaco. Will the solution go through the transfer window? The Bretons are preparing in particular to welcome the Japanese international striker of Celtic Kyogo Furuhashi. Will it be enough to relaunch a very oxidized machine? We will know it soon …