The Coupe de France, the Cup of France is completing these days the third round, the last round of the competition, and has the duel that is played in Stade de la Route de Lorient between Rennes and Paris SG as one of The points of interest of the week. Both teams have very different goals, for example, while Rennes are ninth in Ligue 1, the Paris SG, is third although it is the great dominator of French football in recent years.
For their part, the home team, Rennes, easily eliminated JA Biarritz by a clear 0-6, although in the league is not being able to break into the final fight for the Europa League. For the moment, the team that trains Christian Gourcuff has played twenty-five official matches in the season, achieving a balance of ten victories, six draws and nine defeats. So far he has scored 31 goals and conceded thirty-five. In the current series, the team is going through an accused bache, since it has only gained a game of the last eight that has disputed, once that adds three followed without gain.
In thirteen home matches he has won eight wins, three draws and two defeats, in this sense, the goal balance is nineteen goals in favor and ten against.
Probable team Rennes: Benoît Costil, Romain Danzé, Mexer, Joris Gnagnon, Ludovic Baal, Gelson Fernandes, Adrien Hunou, Yoann Gourcuff, Benjamin André, Kamil Grosicki and Aldo Kalulu.
France Cup The visiting team, Paris SG, is experiencing its most complicated season in recent years, as it comes from dominating French football with little effort and now struggling in the league of equal to the AS Monaco And the surprising Nice At the moment, the Unay Emery’s team has played thirty-three official matches this season, scoring 22 wins, seven draws and four defeats. So far he has scored seventy-five goals and has scored twenty-six. Despite the comments, in the current series the PSG has seven consecutive games without losing, once he has only kneeled in the last games eleven games played (against the Guingamp in league). In fifteen games as a visitor he has achieved ten victories, but has fit his all four defeats commented (two of them followed in the two outings he did in December). Although we have seen that the Paris team has had more stumbling than expected at this stage of the season, so far has marked almost always away from home, as it has done in thirteen of its fifteen departures.
Away from home, he adds three straight victories, one of them in the league against Rennes, in a more disputed game than we could imagine that was solved with a goal by Julian Draxler.
Probable team PSG: Kevin Trapp, Thomas Meunier, Presnel Kimpembe, David Luiz, Layvin Kurzawa, Thiago Motta, Javier Pastore, Marco Verrati, Lucas Moura, Ángel Di María and Edinson Cavani.
When making a forecast we must bear in mind that despite the difficulties experienced in different phases of the championship PSG is one of the strongest teams in Europe, so we hope that continues to opt for the title of cup. Taking into account the information offered in the previous one it may be a good idea to bet on an Asian handicap of -1.0 -1.5 for PSG.
Prediction: PSG win
Odds: 1.40
