Enzo Le Fée’s injury is the only downside of the evening which saw Stade Rennais beat Sochaux (6-1) and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France. We played 2e minute of play, and the midfielder collapsed before leaving the field on a stretcher in tears. It’s serious, it’s muscular, it will certainly last several weeks, deplores Julien Stéphan. It’s a big blow, it’s a sector of the game where we don’t have a lot of options, with Fabian’s injury (Rieder) and with the marathon coming up, it’s bad news.
No warning sign
The Breton technician then clarified that the nature of the injury and above all denied having taken a risk by starting the player who came out very tired after his match against Montpellier, Saturday at Roazhon Park. It’s the ischio, I have no reference to his old injuries, adds the Rennes coach. We did all the recovery tests after Montpellier, we chose to rotate on one of the two midfielders between Baptiste (Santamaria) and Enzo on this match. It was planned that we would rotate within the match. He was injured at the start of the match without any warning signs during warm-up or yesterday during training. He had no annoyance, he felt very good. On hard pressure, on acceleration, it gave way, it seems. Other options will have to be found to fill this significant absence.
Among these options, there is of course Azor Matusiwa who honored his first tenure, demonstrating great potential, despite a lack of benchmarks. On the other hand, he should be suspended for PSG, which will force this environment to be reshaped.