• Appointed in March following the resignation of Julien Stéphan, Bruno Genesio managed to qualify Stade Rennais in the Europa League Conference.

  • On his arrival, the Breton club was, however, in a bad way.

  • The coach believes he has succeeded in transmitting “serenity and confidence” to his group.

Pep struck again. During his three and a half seasons spent in Lyon, Bruno Genesio had not been spared by the critics. But it is clear that the coach had always managed to qualify the Gones in the European Cup, his successors Sylvinho and Rudi Garcia can not say the same. This fine series continued on Sunday evening, the Stade Rennais having managed to steal 6th place in Lens and to snatch its ticket for the Europa Conference Conference. "We are satisfied, it was one of the objectives to be achieved", welcomed the coach at the end of the meeting, recalling however that his team would have to cross a roadblock in August to compete in the group stages of this new competition.

When he arrived on the Rennes bench on March 4, the bet was far from won.

Still shaken by the surprise departure of its coach Julien Stéphan, the Breton club then dragged itself into 10th place in the standings, far from its objectives at the start of the season.

After his visit to China, the coach then discovered a drifting club which had just chained seven games without any victory in Ligue 1 (two draws and five defeats).

"There had been a good job done before but the group was mentally very touched, at its lowest," he admitted Sunday evening at a press conference.

He succeeded in bringing "serenity and confidence"

The discovery of the Champions League was indeed tough for the Bretons who left a lot of feathers there.

This earned them an air gap in the fall followed by a second at the start of the year which was too much for Julien Stéphan.

“We went through a complicated season, said Benjamin Bourigeaud.

But we held on to get out of this negative spiral and gradually go back up to finish in style ”.

Congratulations to Bruno Genesio.

The speed at which he has re-mobilized this team is astounding.

Congratulations also to Stéphan of course, for whom the last plan was to hand over the baton.

With success.

And finally well done to the players, of course.

- Pierre Rolland (@_pierrerolland_) May 23, 2021

Bruno Genesio is there for a lot in this renewal in Rennes, even if he prefers of course to give credit to his players.

However, he admits having succeeded in instilling his positive attitude.

"From my experience in Lyon, I was able to bring serenity and confidence to this group which was sorely lacking," he said.

Obviously, there were also some technical adjustments but I think that most of the work has been done in the mental field ”.

Qualifying in his pocket, the coach, hired until June 2023 with the Rouge et Noir, is already planning next season.

“This qualification is important but we should not be satisfied with that,” he assures us.

We still have to progress to have higher ambitions ”.

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