📏 Form Guide

Angers SCO

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Angers SCO will be hoping to bounce back here following a 0-2 Ligue 1 loss in their previous game against Monaco.

It’s been seldom in recent times where Angers SCO haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Angers SCO have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 12 goals during that time.

Their prior results show that Angers SCO:

• have not registered a win against Rennes in their last 4 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league matches. Things will have to change soon.

Rennes

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to RC Lens in Ligue 1 action, Rennes and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Rennes had 55% possession and 12 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. On the other side, Lens got 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Wesley Saïd (47') scored for RC Lens.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games involving Rennes has become apparent of late. Looking at their last 6 outings shows that this has happened 5 times. During these clashes, their opponents have hit a goal total of 7 while Rennes have scored 8. Nonetheless, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend might be maintained here in this game.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings going back to 17/04/2021 shows us that Angers SCO have won 1 of these & Rennes 5, with the tally of drawn results standing at 0.

A total of 18 goals were produced between them in this period, with 5 from Les Scoïstes and 13 being from Rennes. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league clash featuring these sides was Ligue 1 match day 15 on 15/12/2024 when it ended Rennes 2-0 Angers SCO.

That day, Rennes managed 45% possession and 7 shots at goal with 4 on target. The goalscorers were Albert Grønbæk (33') and Lorenz Assignon (92').

Angers SCO got 3 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.

The referee was Hakim Ben El Hadj.

📋 Team News: Angers SCO

Cédric Hountondji (Achilles tendon contusion) and Sidiki Chérif (Dead leg) will be missing for Angers SCO boss Alexandre Dujeux.

It looks as if Les Scoïstes should use a 4-2-3-1 system for this one with Yahia Fofana, Carlens Arcus, Abdoulaye Bamba, Jordan Lefort, Florent Hanin, Haris Belkebla, Yassin Belkhdim, Zinedine Ferhat, Pierrick Capelle, Jim Allevinah and Esteban Lepaul.

🗞️ Team News: Rennes

Rennes manager Habib Beye has multiple availability issues to deal with. Lilian Brassier (Hamstring injury), Doğan Alemdar (Cruciate ligament tear), Alidu Seidu (Cruciate ligament tear) and Ludovic Blas (Dead leg) will not be playing here.

We believe Rennes appear most likely to utilise a 3-5-2 lineup by sending out Brice Samba, Jeremy Jacquet, Anthony Rouault, Mikayil Faye, Lorenz Assignon, Djaoui Cisse, Azor Matusiwa, Jordan James, Adrien Truffert, A. Kalimuendo-Muinga and Kyogo Furuhashi.

⚡ Prediction

In our opinion, Angers SCO could find themselves up against it to hit the back of the net against this Rennes outfit who we think might just have the edge.

We’re going for a hard-fought 0-1 victory for Rennes when the referee blows for full-time.

Should be interesting.

Andre Moura, 15:01 30/03/2025