Beaten by Lille last weekend, Stade Rennais will try to get their first victory under the Jorge Sampaoli era on Saturday at Saint-Etienne in a bottom-of-the-table match that the Argentine coach fears.
Fifteenth in Ligue 1 after its defeat at Lille last weekend, Stade Rennais must absolutely pocket all three points on Saturday afternoon against Saint-Etienne to avoid slipping dangerously into the red zone. Jorge Sampaoli has been in place for two weeks, and hopes to achieve his first victory in Brittany this Saturday. But at a press conference, the former coach of Olympique de Marseille expressed all his distrust before this poorly ranked meeting against ASSE. The Argentinian technician particularly insisted on the fact that Saint-Etienne was programmed for this fight for maintenance, which was not at all the case for the Rennes players, hence Jorge Sampaoli's real concern.
Sampaoli fears the Saint-Etienne trap
“It takes a lot of energy to save the club, for the good of Stade Rennais. Rennes was not used to this position. We are going to face teams who are used to it and know how to play this type of match. We must face this with responsibility and aggression. We must work in continuity. It's a psychological struggle. We are going to play against Saint-Etienne who knows how to play this kind of match. If against Saint-Etienne we are disorderly, we will lose” warned Jorge Sampaoli, who does not want his players to expect a match that is too easy against a poorly ranked player. Unable to win a single match in Ligue 1 since October 25, the Breton club will be expected at the turning point on Saturday against ASSE and a first success for Jorge Sampaoli would do the greatest good on an accounting level before playing against two others poorly ranked teams before Christmas, namely Nantes and Angers.
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