The Brazilian Dalbert is consoled after the new defeat of Stade Rennais on Tuesday night against Sevilla FC in the Champions League.

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  • Stade Rennais lost 3-1 to Sevilla on Tuesday for their last Champions League meeting. 

  • The Bretons nevertheless delivered a good match against the Spaniards but lacked efficiency. 

  • Rennes were once again weighed down by silly mistakes and a glaring lack of efficiency.

Stade Rennais still knows how to play football.

To see some performances against Bordeaux or Lens, one could doubt it.

Tuesday evening, the Bretons nevertheless did honor to their first participation in the Champions League.

So yes, they have lost again and finish last in their group with a meager point in six games.

Beaten by Sevilla (3-1), they nevertheless showed beautiful things in a desperately empty Roazhon Park and which said goodbye to the C1, without really having had the opportunity to taste it.

Manhandled in the first leg, Julien Stéphan's players miraculously conceded only one goal.

Tuesday night, they conceded three in the middle of a game, however much more successful.

Jules Koundé first scored from the left on a goal as spectacular as it was lucky, then En Nesyri with a header and foot reminded the Breton defense that it is still just as crumbly in recent weeks.

“This is the end of a chapter of our season,” summed up coach Julien Stéphan.

18 - Rennes player Georginio Rutter (18 years and 232 days) has become the youngest French player to score in the Champions League since Kylian Mbappé in May 2017 (18 years and 140 days).

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Undoubtedly cooled by the Breton climate and the lack of stake for this last match, the Sevillians left a lot of space to Camavinga and Grenier in the midfield.

They especially let the young Jérémy Doku have fun on his right wing.

“I'm glad we put a lot of envy even though it lacked efficiency.

I told the players that we had to move, that we have more desire, more impact.

Today, we lost but we put the ingredients.

Seville was more efficient, ”summed up Faitout Maouassa.

The relentless excesses of Doku were unfortunately not taken advantage of by Mbaye Niang, tenured in peak for the first time since his abortive departure from Saint-Etienne.

Clumsy, the Senegalese did not frame, before falling on Bono.

Excellent Tuesday evening, the Moroccan goalkeeper of Sevilla FC will have conceded only one goal, on a penalty obtained by Camavinga and transformed by Giorginio Rutter.

The youth bonus

Decked out with the number 35 on the back, the young 18-year-old striker could have scored as soon as he entered the game but he missed the mark.

His carelessness, his ardor and especially his desire to play could do the Rennais great good in the weeks to come.

Replacing an interesting Mbaye Niang for thirty minutes but who disappeared in the second half, Julien Stéphan's protégé could have afforded a brace if Bono had not miraculously interposed on his deflected strike from Camavinga.

Rutter's good performance should not obscure Jérémy Doku's very good match.

The young Belgian recruit delivered his best performance since arriving in Brittany at the end of the transfer window.

He only missed a goal or an assist to validate his match.

Rennes leaves its stadium with full suitcases.

Hopefully she will come out of it grown.

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