Rome (AFP)

Solid for an hour and scorer of the opener, the Stade Rennais was punished in fifteen minutes by Lazio Rome who finally won 2-1 Thursday at the Olympic Stadium, complicating the course in the Europa League of Brittany, including the negative series is prolonged.

For Rennes, the bad luck has since last seven league games and C3 together, three losses and four draws, and we must go back to end of August to find a record of success.

And in the Europa League, to which they took taste last season with their beautiful course until the round of 16, men's men Julien Stephan find themselves last in the difficult pool E with a single point, behind Celtic Glasgow ( four points), Cluj (three points) and Lazio (three points).

The Bretons, however, have well approached the match, in the cold and the tristounette atmosphere of an almost empty Olympic Stadium.

First there was not much to warm, no laundry, no pace, between the two 3-5-2 mirrored by the two coaches. In the first period, we first observed each other. Length.

But Rennes was then the best team, at least the most enterprising, and the opening of the score signed Morel, a head stung on a flawless free kick Grenier (55th) rewarded his efforts.

It was no longer then because two minutes before the goal of Morel, Simone Inzaghi had entered Milinkovic-Savic and Luis Alberto, his two most talented players, who totally rocked the game.

- After Nice and OM -

In the 63rd minute, it was first the Serb who equalized with a nice cross shot on a service of the Spaniard. And just over 10 minutes later, Milinkovic-Savic dropped the ball on Immobile's head for the 2-1 goal.

Before this quarter of an hour of pressure and quality, the Italians, the team much reworked, had however almost nothing proposed outside a free kick without great danger of Cataldi (42) and some centers without recipients.

The talent of the two entrants was therefore enough to change the course of the match, which Inzaghi had presented without laughing like "a final", but that his players really did not approach as such.

After Nice and Marseille the last two seasons, both beaten twice by the Romans in the same Europa League, Lazio continues its full box against the clubs of Ligue 1 and erases his inaugural defeat in Cluj.

Rennes, however, remains angry with the win, and with the referees, since the Bretons claimed two penalties in the first period, for a foul on Tait and, especially, for a hand of Acerbi.

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