The Stade Rennais Courier
Match26 Sep 2026
Stade Rennais win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. RC Strasbourg will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Boulaye Dia takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Stade Rennais
Ismaël Bennacer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Kelvin Dongopandji at Stade Rennais
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kelvin Dongopandji is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Boulaye Dia was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.61. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match26 Sep 2026
Stade Rennais get the job done against RC Strasbourg
A 3‑2 win over RC Strasbourg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Brice Samba gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
One of those days for Quentin Merlin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Stade Rennais
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout Pierre Bourgeois: “That is the standard”
- Looking ahead Stade Rennais take on the side everybody is chasing
- The dugout Alidu Seidu gets picked when it counts