A week after the Marseille slap (0-1) which took them away from the podium and deprived of Jérémy Doku (hamstrings), their most dynamic offensive element of the moment, Stade Rennais has recovered some strength. He will manage in Auxerre without his Belgian winger, nor Warmed Omari, suspended. But with Flavien Tait rejoined the band. Hamari Traoré, absent for six days from Ligue 1, too.
On the other hand Xeka, seriously injured in an ankle at the beginning of January and back in collective training, like his captain, in the middle of the week, will have to wait to return to competition. The red and black efficiency is shaky these days, like the recent record of Amine Gouiri, who has remained silent in 11 of the last 13 Championship matches. He had scored his first goal of the season in the first leg against Auxerre (5-0), the most prolific of the Rennes exercise. In the offensive field Désiré Doué, ill, is forfeited and Alan Do Marcolino (20 years old) appears for the second time in the Breton group.
