Lucas Ocampos did not score Wednesday night against Alfred Gomis' Stade Rennais, impressive in goals.

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  • Senegalese Stade Rennais goalkeeper Alfred Gomis delivered a very big game Wednesday against Sevilla.

  • Arrived injured at the end of the transfer window, he was playing his first Champions League match.

  • Alfred Gomis will meet his compatriot Edouard Mendy on Wednesday, whom he replaced after leaving Chelsea.

We had left him with a lackluster performance against Angers.

On Wednesday, Alfred Gomis had a full match against the Spanish Sevilla FC for his first in the Champions League.

If he could not avoid the defeat of his family, beaten 1-0 after being outrageously dominated, the Rennes goalkeeper showed that he was indeed the number 1 goalkeeper in the third of the last Ligue 1 championship.

Arrived injured at the end of an endless transfer window, Alfred Gomis has not really had time to be reassured since he joined Stade Rennais.

His performance against Angers on Friday evening even raised some questions in the ranks of Rennes supporters.

With a solid experience in Italy, the former Dijon goalkeeper did not seem impressed by the incessant assaults of the Sevillians on Wednesday night.

Machine gunned from the start of the match, the Senegalese goalkeeper responded by miraculously keeping his clean sheet at half-time.

“They had a lot more chances than us, Alfred kept us in the game for a long time,” admits midfielder Clément Grenier, who started out in the absence of Eduardo Camavinga and Steven Nzonzi.

With 62 balls touched, Alfred Gomis is by far the Rennes player who touched the most balls in front of Damien Da Silva (48).

Symbol of a cornered team. # FCSSRFC

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If it lost Daniele Rugani and Benjamin Bourigeaud to injury on Tuesday, Julien Stéphan's team was able to discover the extent of the talents of his new goalkeeper, hastily transferred for 15 million euros after the departure of Edouard Mendy to Chelsea.

“My individual performance is not important.

Especially with this defeat.

I tried to keep us in the match until the end, because anything can happen in C1, ”replied the goalkeeper at the microphone of Téléfoot.

“Alfred was our priority,” Rennes sporting director Florian Maurice said.

After seeing 21 of the 22 Sevillian shots flee the frame, we can better understand why.

If his style is less fine than that of his predecessor, the Senegalese showed great courage on Wednesday, especially when he came out fists forward in front of the powerful Diego Carlos.

The Rennais will however have to improve his kicking game, not always reliable Wednesday, especially when it was necessary to lengthen.

“We are in the learning phase.

We will learn a lot from this meeting ”, warns Julien Stéphan.

"We will fight to the end"

Last of its group with a point, Stade Rennais will move to the Chelsea lawn of Edouard Mendy on Wednesday, who kept his goal clean on Wednesday in the 4-0 victory in Krasnodar.

We are already enjoying seeing the game from a distance between the two goalkeepers of the Senegalese selection.

“We will fight to the end.

There are still four games, we'll see at the end, ”warns Clément Grenier.

The Bretons have at least four games left to take advantage of this competition.

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