An injured beast is even more dangerous: this is the message that the coach of Stade Rennais Habib Beye wanted to pass, two days before a perilous trip to Lyon on behalf of the 31st day of Ligue 1.
Tilled by Manchester United (5-4 AP) in the Europa League and before losing in the derby against Saint-Etienne (2-1), OL lived a particularly delicate week.
Paulo Fonseca, OL coach.
Paulo Fonseca's men are still in the race for a qualification for the Champions League. This final sprint will be decisive for the Lyon season. Habib Beye expects a trap at Groupama Stadium on Saturday evening (kick -off at 9:05 p.m.).
Beye expects “the best version of OL”
“These are difficult periods for these clubs that have very high ambitions, Explained Habib Beye. In a week, you feel like you are losing everything. Me, I am more pragmatic and I tell myself that we will have the best version of OL because in these clubs, when the pressure is put either by the supporters, or the outside context, or even the direction, there is necessarily a reaction. These are players and a high quality team, you do not score four goals at Old Trafford by being an average team. ”
“” We know what we are going to be confronted with, but we also know that the teams fear us, that when you receive the Stade Rennais, you no longer receive it in comfort, but with an identification that this team is able to hurt you, to control the game. But when a team like Lyon loses two as important games there is necessarily a reaction, and we are happy to live this match“, Concluded the Senegalese technician.
