02/11/2008 The Stade Rennais F.C. assures the basics …

The first decisive seconds!

This evening, the men of Guy Lacombe have a nice opportunity to take three points facing the red lantern of the championship. 17 seconds only Moussa Sow has just passed and is jostled in the surface of repairing after a good ball in depth by Olivier Thomert. Jimmy Briand undertakes to draw him and transform the pénalty by getting Richert from opposite direction. The attacker rennais signs his 4th purpose there of season.

17th minute, " Red and Black» get a good blow-franc. And it is Olivier Thomert who draws him.
Admitted for his game of head, Petter Hansson sends the leather under the bar but Richert, the sochalien concierge fans out superbly.

Three minutes later, Mézague resumes of flight facing purpose but Sochaliens however did not centre still the slightest striking. Some instants later, it is in the turn of Olivier Thomert to try his luck after a good recovery of bullet.

If Doubistes does not prove to be very menacing, they are at the origin of nice collective movements on the forehead of the attack. 25th minute, the men of Francis Gillot still almost come back to score. Isabey centre standing aside but Rod Fanni clears the camp in some centimetres of the goal line.

An instant was dominated by Sochaux, the Stage Rennais F.C. takes back things in hand at the end of first time thanks to many balls recovered by Fabien Lemoine. Before joining cloakroom, the Bretons put Sochaliens once again in danger when Mickaël Pagis resumes of flight in more than 20 metres of the sochalienne animal box. The leather crosses some centimetres above the transverse. An action which is not without reminding of the 3rd purpose facing Lyons.

It doesn't much matter way

To start the second period, Guy Lacombe undertakes a first change with the entrance of the Nigerian, Elderson Echiejile, instead of Olivier Thomert.

In spite of all the goodwill, Sochaliens manages to find the fault. Upon the return to cloakroom, the players of Francis Gillot recover from it in two distant striking without conviction. And if Rennais lacks owing percussion, their adversaries are not the most serene in defence.

67th, FC SOCHAUX obtains a blow-franc after an error of Bruno Cheyrou. Valter Birsa who wraps its striking finds the top of the transverse bar. While " Red and Black» find another job, Roman Danzé enters game instead of Moussa Sow.

Undoubtedly made tired having played mid-week, both teams struggle to speed game up. It is then on stopped kick that SRFC brings danger. 76th minute, Jimmy Briand, on corner-kick, misses the frame.   

If they did not deliver their bigger match of season, Rennais harvests three points of victory facing Sochaux. Rennais is 6th with 19 points.