Rennes take on the visitors Dynamo Kyiv in the round 3 match of UEFA Europa League group stage. The match will be played on Thursday, October 6th at Roazhon Park (Rennes).
Rennes are quite ambitious. Moreover, the Red-Blacks have achieved remarkable success in recent years. In 2019, the country’s cup was taken, the next season, the maximum, 3rd place, was taken in League 1. By the way, this made it possible to debut in the Champions League, where they played in the 1st group with Krasnodar - and unsuccessfully. It was not possible to repeat that peak, but the 4th position according to the results of the last draw was a rather high result. Now, by the way, so far, Bruno Genesio's wards are not particularly shining, and they certainly haven't improved in the domestic arena. In the Europa League, too, the results could have been better. In Cyprus, the French almost lost points - AEK (Larnaca) capitulated only after a goal in the 94th minute. And then at home, leading until the 60th minute 2-0 (Maer and Terje assisted each other), limited themselves to a 2-2 draw with Fenerbahce.
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Dynamo Kyiv are going through a very difficult time. Even in the domestic arena there were a lot of misfires - even an anti-record start in the Premier League. True, before that there was a good start in the Champions League qualification. The Ukrainians were able to knock out Fenerbahce in the selection first, and then Sturm. But frankly, nothing happened with Benfica - even worse than last spring, in the group round. There were hopes that Mircea Lucescu's men would be able to trip the Turks again: in Istanbul they kept a draw for a long time after Tsygankov's classy goal. But in the very end of the fight after the set piece, Batshuayi scored brought victory to the Canaries. However, losing 2-1 on the road to such a grandee is a shame, unpleasant, but not a tragedy. But then, taking home (conditionally - they have to play in Poland) AEK (Larnaca), the "white-blue" quickly conceded a goal. And so they really couldn't answer it. There was talk about the possible resignation of "Mister", but so far Surkis retains confidence in the specialist.
In 2018, the parties have already played head-to-heads, and the fights also took place in the group stage of the Europa League. Then the Ukrainians were much stronger: Dynamo won 2-1 away and 3-1 at home. Bookmakers believe in Rennes and are skeptical about the current Dynamo. It seems that the French should take revenge as confidently as possible: we bet on their victory with a handicap of "-1 goal".
Prediction for the match: Rennes to win with -1.0 handicap.