Julien Stéphan cannot find the solution with Stade Rennais.

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Rennes coach Julien Stéphan said on Saturday that his team, which was aiming for a European place this season, would have to be “lucid” and start thinking about keeping in Ligue 1, after the 2-0 defeat against Lens .

"We are not mentally prepared to live what we are going to have to live"

“We are in an extremely negative spiral.

We have the obligation to reconsider the objectives immediately.

You have to be lucid and say to yourself that you have to behave like a team that will have to fight for maintenance, ”said the Breton coach.

"At the moment, we are not showing the face of a team that can claim to play the European Cup," he insisted, while Rennes, rolled on the European scene, is plunging into the soft belly of the Ligue 1 ranking (8th with 19 points).

Julien Stéphan: "You have to be lucid and have the behavior of a team that will fight for maintenance ..." The concern of the Rennes coach after the Rennes performance.

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“You have to be lucid.

It's not so much the ranking, it's the dynamics and the production, what happens on the pitch.

We are not mentally prepared to go through what we are going to have to go through ”, he regretted.

The defeat against Lens “is a big alert for everyone.

We expected a reaction, the first 25 minutes were consistent and then after (…) we liquefy for lack of confidence, certainly also of physical resources ”, added the coach.

Asked about any mistakes he could have made since the start of the season, Stéphan replied: "If I'm the problem, there is no difficulty, we are sufficiently sincere between us inside of the club to make the decisions that will have to be taken (…).

We will talk about all this in due course ”.

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