It's hard to find the right words after a slap at home. It was the task that was incumbent on Sabri Lamouchi after the Stade Rennais defeat against Strasbourg (4-1). But for once, the players have simplified the problem. Apart from Ismaïla Sarr, nobody was at the level.
Stade Rennais was humiliated at home against Strasbourg (1-4). A few days after their victory in the Europa League, the Rouge et Noir make a third unsuccessful match in Ligue 1. Sabri Lamouchi was disappointed at the end of the match.
Sabri Lamouchi (Rennes coach): "We must not hide behind the Europa League, it's too easy. Any team in France would like to play this competition. I just want to say that it is, apart from Ismaïla Sarr, a collective shipwreck. We made a very satisfying start to the match, we scored a magnificent goal, we did the hardest and unfortunately afterwards we give the people of Strasbourg the opportunity to come back in the game, take the advantage, increase it and we lose the thread, we give up, we abdicate. We are simply in the hard. When we make the start of the game we have done, we must be more in control, commit less mistakes technically, glaring mistakes, tactically also. Tonight we were too far away, Strasbourg deserves its victory, Strasbourg took advantage of our mistakes, our weakness at any level.
++ Ligue 1. Stade Rennais dark at home against Strasbourg
Thierry Laurey (coach of Strasbourg): "It may be a little expensive for Rennes. We play a team that played on Thursday in the Europa League and had to make a big game, and I think they left a little bit of strength in the battle. Tonight, even if the opening score Rennes, superb by the way, can give them a little more + peps +, we saw that there was a little fatigue and that the sequences they make usually were not so oiled. I dare to believe that there is a little something for something. We have put things in place, gradually and if there is something that is interesting tonight is that it is the reward of their work. It does not fall from the sky. In the state of mind, in the investment, in the offensive and defensive animations, one respected what one wanted to do and I find it logical that one is rewarded ".