Is Bruno Genesio becoming a respected coach at Rennes?

• An afternoon of reunion.

  This Sunday (5:05 p.m.), Bruno Genesio will be on the bench at Stade Rennais for a perilous trip to Lyon, where he does not only have good memories.

• Often criticized by OL supporters for his tactical choices, "Pep" Genesio gets his revenge with Rennes and his polished collective game, which translates into the second best attack in Ligue 1, with sumptuous goals collectively at stake.

• Tactically, he never denied his desire to play forward, but he seems to have found better acceptance of his discourse in Brittany than at OL.

“The results he had in Lyon were very good.

Unfortunately, he was decried almost immediately when he took the first team.

I find that everything that happened was of the order of the crime of facies.

“Three years after the separation between OL and Bruno Genesio, Florian Maurice did not miss the opportunity, on RMC Sport, to relaunch a subject that is still tense: was the Rennes coach’s long stint unfairly perceived in Lyon?

A few days before a decisive OL-Stade Rennais in the race for Europe, this Sunday (5:05 p.m.), the Breton sports director “has again rewritten history”, reproach many Lyon supporters.

Because the facts are there: apart from five brilliant first months from January to May 2016 (from 9th to 2nd place), OL have never been assured with Bruno Genesio of direct qualification for the Champions League (4th in 2017, 3rd in 2018 and 2019).

He did not reach a Cup final.

And his main feat remains this half of the Europa League lost in 2017 against Ajax Amsterdam (1-4, 3-1).

A "very good" record despite seasons spent leading players of the caliber of Lacazette, Tolisso, Fekir, Ndombele, Mendy and Depay?

“In Lyon, it was mainly aimed at a sum of individuals”

A resounding winner in the first leg after a benchmark match (4-1), the interested party will play his first meeting on the opposing bench at Parc OL this Sunday.

Like the current series of three consecutive successes in Ligue 1, has Stade Rennais (4th and second best attack in the championship) not allowed him to become a much more respected coach?

“I think that Bruno Genesio already advocated the same attacking and collective game in Lyon, but his message was not then perceived as well by his players, believes the former midfielder of the two clubs Gaël Danic.

There, he spoke above all to a sum of individuals more oriented towards their personal career than towards the collective, as is the case at Stade Rennais.

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It is difficult to prove him wrong when we think back to the triplet of sometimes frenzied individualists Depay-Diaz-Traoré, a sort of absolute antithesis of the accomplices Bourigeaud, Majer, Terrier and Laborde.

During his two seasons in Lyon, from 2013 to 2015, Gaël Danic evolved under the orders of Bruno Genesio, then assistant to Rémi Garde then Hubert Fournier.

“He took charge of all the training sessions.

In fact, it was a real number one bis.

He often intervened and sought to maintain all the players in the squad concerned.

We quickly felt that what inhabited him was show football, that he was going to prefer to win 4-3 than 1-0.

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“Bruno always wanted us to play like Barça”

A clear football sensitivity shared with us by Saïd Mehamha, his former midfielder with the OL reserve (in 2010-2011), before he faced Pep Guardiola's Manchester City in September 2018: "Bruno always wanted 'we play like Barça.

The 4-3-3 of the Guardiola era was an obsession for him.

We sometimes had video sessions with Bruno, not on our opponent in National 2, but on Barça game sequences ”.

An assumed model, until the systematic use of 4-3-3 during the end of the 2015-2016 season as a cannonball after the dismissal of Hubert Fournier, culminating in a 6-1 against AS Monaco.

It quickly earned him this mocking nickname of “Pep” Genesio with Lyon tweeters.

Although in 2017-2018 he beat the record for goals (2.3 on average) scored by OL (including by Grand Lyon in the 2000s) over a Ligue 1 season, the supporters are for the most part not not nostalgic for his three and a half years on the Lyon bench.

“He was a great leader of men who knew how to make short-term hits, but who proved unable to make our club progress structurally, thus judges Vincent.

Our matches were completely illegible and saved by individuals, such as Memphis Depay's hat-trick to snatch third place in 2018 on the final day (3-2).

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"Bruno is an under-side coach"

In Rennes, not everything has been perfect this season but the result is much clearer and more serene.

The SRFC coach was able to establish a slick collective game that made a strong impression throughout European football.

“I keep thinking that Bruno is an under-side coach.

He has achieved exploits in the past but he was too quickly criticized.

He is a coach who likes the beautiful attacking game.

His goal is for his team to create as many chances as possible to put the opponent in difficulty, ”said Alexandre Kerveillant, video analyst for Genesio during his season and a half spent at the head of Beijing Guoan (China), d August 2019 to January 2021.

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In one year on the Rennes bench, the former OL coach was able to rely on the tactical bases laid by Julien Stéphan and his high pressing to gently put his paw there.

“Bruno loves the one-two, passing circuits that play two, three, with players who don't hesitate to move away.

It evolves according to the workforce.

There, he has very good full-backs [Meling and Traoré] so he relies on them to carry the danger, ”continues his former assistant.

“We can play together with our eyes closed”

To support his point, the one who is now stationed at FC Sion (Switzerland) has a concrete argument: “Since Bruno left, Lyon has experienced periods of turbulence with much more frequent changes of coach, without ever finding the right one. formula ".

With his total football, Genesio also assumes the risk of discovering his wings when his side play high.

But there too, he found the parade by pushing back Benjamin Bourigeaud or by shifting a midfielder, often Baptiste Santamaria.

One of the managers of this organization, Benjamin Bourigeaud, details the contribution of the Genesio touch.

“These are things that we have been working on since the start of the season.

Our state of mind means that we can dezone, we know that we will be compensated behind.

It is a collective work that we do every day.

With this state of mind, we can play together with our eyes closed.

This is our strength”.

A follower of “preventive marking”

“We sometimes talk about organized disorganization.

It's a game where the tactical system and positions no longer mean much.

Each time a player frees up space to attack the line, another must compensate.

Manchester City does it very well, for example,” explains Luigi Renna, tactics specialist and author of the book 

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Often inspired by the method of Pep Guardiola, Bruno Genesio has also become a follower of "preventive marking", which consists of anticipating the loss of the ball to counter the opponent very quickly and very high.

Obsessed with a tactic called “game of positions” or “game of opportunities”, Genesio makes his players rehearse collective sequences in training.

"When things go wrong with him, it's violent"

“It's a demanding scheme, which takes time to be assimilated and accepted by the players, continues Renna.

Perhaps in Lyon, he had not had time to put his ideas in place.

The context was not the same as in Rennes”.

The team must then be able to vary their rhythm of play, sometimes slowing down possession at the risk of seeming shy to better accelerate and break the lines.

But when they project themselves, the Rennes team do so in numbers, as can be seen in the screenshot above, with six dangerous players.

Our file on Bruno Genesio

A revealing snapshot of the spectacular dimension that inhabits a group of Bruno Genesio, but also of the tactical credibility that he is in the process of fully acquiring with his second position at the head of an elite European club.

“It is clear that Genesio is currently pulling collective things much more advanced than in Lyon, recognizes Vincent, our Lyon supporter.

But I encourage the people of Rennes not to rejoice too much because when things go wrong with him, it's violent.

Moreover, they were not eliminated in the Coupe de France at the 20th in Ligue 2 [in Nancy in the round of 16] while they tarted PSG and OL?

That 's

Genesio…”

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