UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Roazhon Park - Rennes Thursday 14 February 2019 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Stade Rennais FC Round of 32, First leg Real Betis Balompié Last updated 15/03/2019 12:53CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Match officials 18 Legend 19 1 Stade Rennais FC - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 14 February 2019 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Roazhon Park, Rennes Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Stade Rennais FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Falcao 38 (P), Álvaro Club Atlético de Madrid - Stade Domínguez 42, Arda 15/12/2011 GS 3-1 Madrid Rennais FC Turan 79; Mandjeck 86 Stade Rennais FC - Club Atlético Montaño 55; Juanfran 29/09/2011 GS 1-1 Rennes de Madrid 86 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 29/09/2005 R1 CA Osasuna - Stade Rennais FC Pamplona agg: 1-3 A. Frei 27, 74, Hadji 15/09/2005 R1 Stade Rennais FC - CA Osasuna 3-1 Rennes 84; Milošević 52 Real Betis Balompié - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Olympique Lyonnais - Real 28/11/2013 GS 1-0 Lyon Gomis 66 Betis Balompié Real Betis Balompié - Olympique 19/09/2013 GS 0-0 Seville Lyonnais UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - Real Betis 2-2 Gerard 33, Maoulida 23/08/2005 QR3 Monaco Balompié agg: 2-3 63; Oliveira 17, 77 Real Betis Balompié - AS 09/08/2005 QR3 1-0 Seville Edu 90+3 Monaco FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 12/12/2002 R3 AJ Auxerre - Real Betis Balompié Auxerre Tainio 19, Lachuer 48 agg: 2-1 Real Betis Balompié - AJ 28/11/2002 R3 1-0 Seville Alfonso Pérez 10 (P) Auxerre UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Real Betis Balompié - FC 2-1 Trujillo Orama 30, 06/12/1995 R3 Seville Girondins de Bordeaux agg: 2-3 Stošić 45; Zidane 4 2 Stade Rennais FC - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 14 February 2019 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Roazhon Park, Rennes UEFA Cup FC Girondins de Bordeaux - 21/11/1995 R3 2-0 Bordeaux Dutuel 24, Croci 80 Real Betis Balompié Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Stade Rennais FC 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 1 5 5 Real Betis Balompié 4 3 1 0 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 8 3 2 3 6 8 3 Stade Rennais FC - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 14 February 2019 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Roazhon Park, Rennes Match background Wins in their last two group games enabled Rennes to clinch a first ever qualification for the round of 32, where they will meet undefeated Group F winners Real Betis, who are appearing at this stage of the UEFA Europa League for the second time. • Rennes recovered from three successive defeats to take Group K's runners-up spot thanks to victories at Jablonec (1-0) and – in a must-win decider – at home to Astana on matchday six (2-0). Betis were less troubled in Group F, where they posted three wins and three draws to qualify with a game to spare and finish two points above both Olympiacos and eliminated AC Milan. Previous meetings • The clubs have never met in UEFA competition. • Rennes have won one and drawn one of their two games at home to Spanish opposition. • Betis have yet to win in four trips to France, losing three games without scoring, including 0-1 at Lyon in their only previous UEFA Europa League fixture in the country, on matchday five in 2013/14. Form guide Rennes • Rennes earned their first ever qualifying exemption for the group stage of a major UEFA competition by finishing fifth in Ligue 1 last season. • They have competed in the UEFA Europa League proper once before, in 2011/12, after coming through two qualifying rounds, but went out in the group stage after losing all three away fixtures and drawing all three at home – against Atlético Madrid, Celtic and Udinese. That was the club's last European campaign before this one. • Rennes participated twice in the UEFA Cup group stage, in 2005/06 and 2007/08, but were winless in those too (D2 L6). They finally recorded their first group win by defeating Jablonec 2-1 at home on matchday one this season thanks to a last-minute penalty. • The subsequent 1-2 defeat by Dynamo Kyiv in Brittany on matchday three nevertheless ended a ten-match unbeaten run at home in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, qualifying included, for the French club (W5 D5). Betis • Betis finished one place and two points above Sevilla in last season's Liga to clinch an automatic UEFA Europa League group stage spot at their city rivals' expense. • Prior to this season, Betis's last opponents in Europe were Sevilla as they lost to the eventual winners on penalties in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League round of 16 after both clubs had won 2-0 at their opponents' stadium. • That was Betis's first European adventure in eight years; in the round of 32 they overcame Rubin Kazan 3-1 on aggregate (1-1 home, 2-0 away) to set up that all-Andalusian showdown. • Betis have lost only one of their last ten European away games, winning five including a 2-1 success at Milan on matchday three. They have not conceded more than once in any match during that stretch, keeping six clean sheets. UEFA Europa League squad changes • Rennes In: Souleyman Doumbia, Loïc Badiashile, Armand Lauriente, Eduardo Camavinga, Isaac Matondo Out: Ludovic Baal, Denis Will Poha • Betis In: Diego Lainez, Jesé Rodríguez, Emerson Out: Ryad Boudebouz, Takashi Inui, Toni Sanabria Links and trivia • Betis right-back Aïssa Mandi played for Reims between 2010 and 2016. He faced Rennes on seven occasions (W2 D1 L4), scoring twice. • Mandi is an Algeria team-mate of Rennes duo Ramy Bensebaini and Mehdi Zeffane. • Giovani Lo Celso is on loan at Betis from French champions Paris Saint-Germain, where he arrived in 2016. He has played against Rennes twice with Paris (W1 L1). • Betis are one of seven teams to have come through the UEFA Europa League group stage undefeated, the others being Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Arsenal, Villarreal, Eintracht Frankfurt and Chelsea. • Betis conceded only two goals in the group stage – the joint best record alongside Arsenal (Group E). 4 Stade Rennais FC - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 14 February 2019 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Roazhon Park, Rennes • Rennes are one of only five clubs involved in this round of 32 who have never previously participated in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase; Dinamo Zagreb, Slavia Praha, Zürich and Malmö are the others. The coaches • There was a change of coach at Rennes on 3 December with the dismissal of Sabri Lamouchi. His place was initially taken on an interim basis by reserve team boss Julien Stéphan, whose first two Ligue 1 matches in charge both resulted in 2-0 wins, prompting the club to give him a deal until the end of the season on 12 December, the day before he led the club past Astana into the UEFA Europa League round of 32. He is the son of Guy Stéphan, the assistant coach to Didier Deschamps of reigning world champions France. • A former midfielder capped three times by Spain, Santander-born Quique Setién spent most of his playing career with home-town club Real Racing Club, his two lengthy spells there interrupted by shorter stints at Atlético Madrid and Logroñés. His coaching career also began at Racing and eventually prospered in the Canary Islands with Las Palmas. Setién returned to the Spanish mainland to take charge of Betis in May 2017, leading the Seville club to sixth in the Liga at the end of his first season. 5 Stade Rennais FC - Real Betis Balompié Thursday 14 February 2019 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Roazhon Park, Rennes Team facts Stade Rennais FC Founded: 1901 Nickname: Les Rouge et Noir (The Red and Blacks) UEFA club competition honours • UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2008 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) French Cup: 2 (1971) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2011/12: group stage 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: first round (having transferred from UEFA Intertoto Cup) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Rennes v Synot 15/07/01, UEFA Intertoto Cup third round first leg • Biggest away win 2-5: Metalurgi Rustavi v Rennes 28/07/11, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Rennes v Stuttgart 20/10/05, UEFA Cup group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: PAOK v Rennes 14/12/05, UEFA Cup group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 4-0: Rennes v Crvena zvezda 25/08/11, play-offs second leg • Biggest away win 2-5: Metalurgi Rustavi v Rennes (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Rennes v Stuttgart (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: PAOK v Rennes (see above) Real Betis Balompié Formed: 1907 Nickname: Verdiblancos (Green-and-Whites) UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 1 (1935) Spanish Cup: 2 (2005) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise)