Here in pursuit of Adrien Hunou, Harold Moukoudi was sometimes in danger against Stade Rennais on Saturday.

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  • Surprise leader after four days, ASSE cracked Saturday by losing for the first time this season against Rennes (0-3).

  • The Bretons take the opportunity to grab this leader's chair in Ligue 1.

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    looks at the shortcomings noted by Claude Puel and his players around this meeting played in the Cauldron.

At the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium,

"Lesson of realism", "conceded goals", "absence of technical leaders" ... You will understand, the first (heavy) defeat of the Greens, this Saturday against Stade Rennais (0-3), is to be believed Claude Puel especially linked to a combination of circumstances.

“I don't have the feeling that this team has put us out of reach.

Rennes scored on a set piece without any real concessions in the first period, sighs the Stéphanois coach, who saw his first setback of the season ... It's the same in the second period: they came twice and they scored two killer goals.

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Clear victory for @staderennais 💪!

#ASSESRFC



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Certainly, ASSE had the misfortune of celebrating too quickly the equalizer of Romain Hamouma (46th), canceled via the VAR for an offside of a few centimeters.

But the technical errors and the glaring inability to approach the goals of the excellent Romain Salin still hover over the Cauldron.

Claude Puel tries another explanation.

We have very important players, technical leaders who we miss when they are absent like there because they are an integral part of our game, whether it is Yvan Neyou or our captain Mathieu Debuchy.

Take Neyou, he puts us in the right direction and reassures us.

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"Wesley Fofana is a little disturbed at the moment"

Of himself, Claude Puel adds to this list his defensive captain Wesley Fofana (19), who came into play only at the break on Saturday, and this time not because of a painful knee like the previous week in Nantes.

"Wesley is a little disturbed at the moment, which is normal", briefly slips the manager of the Greens, determined to refuse until October 5 the offer of nearly 35 million euros proposed by Leicester.

But besides this delicate context, is the march certainly too high between an ASSE still leader of Ligue 1 on Thursday evening and a collective force like Stade Rennais?

“No, because for the match in Marseille (0-2), we were very present and with a lot of quality,” replied Claude Puel.

💬 "The score is a bit harsh and does not reflect the game. This defeat will serve us well, we will see our flaws and we will work on it."



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"We are like brothers"

Convalescent and came into play only at half-time on Saturday (like Wesley Fofana), Yvan Neyou regrets “a lack of rhythm”.

Filmed by his club after the match, the promising midfielder Adil Aouchiche also tries to decipher this difficult afternoon for an ASSE having experienced a start to the season canon.

“We made some bad choices in front of goal and it's with this kind of game that we see our flaws and that we work the most.

We are a team, we are like brothers, we will continue to build ourselves together.

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The experienced Timothée Kolodziejczak adds: “Games like that forge young players”.

And that's not what Sainté lacks, with no less than three players (Moueffek, Rivera and Tormin) not having their name on the jersey on Saturday.

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