Rennes v Jablonec facts
Having both competent automatically for a UEFA Europa League organisation stage, Rennes and Jablonec get their 2018/19 European campaigns off and using with a matchday one confront in Brittany.
Previous meetings
• Jablonec have never faced French antithesis in UEFA competition.
• Rennes’s dual home games opposite Czech clubs have brought a win and a draw; their final confront was a 5-0 feat opposite Slovácko in a 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup.
Form guide
Rennes
• Rennes warranted their initial ever subordinate grant for a vital UEFA bar foe by finishing fifth in a 2017/18 Ligue 1.
• They have competed in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre once before, in 2011/12, after entrance by dual subordinate rounds. Defeated in all 3 divided fixtures, opposite Udinese, Celtic and contingent winners Atlético Madrid, they drew all 3 during home. That was a club’s many new European campaign.
• Rennes also participated twice in a UEFA Cup organisation stage, in 2005/06 and 2007/08, though were winless in those too (D2 L6). Nevertheless, they are dominant in their final 9 home fixtures in a UEFA Cup/ UEFA Europa League, subordinate included.
Jablonec
• Third in final season’s Czech Liga, Jablonec are competing in a UEFA organisation theatre for a initial time.
• They have been catastrophic in 4 prior attempts to validate for a UEFA Europa League proper, descending in a third subordinate turn in both 2010/11 and 2011/12 afterwards losing play-offs opposite Real Betis in 2013/14 and Ajax in 2015/16.
• The Czech bar have scored in usually one of their final 5 European fixtures and have available only one win in their final 6 (D1 L4).
Links and trivia
• Rennes have a Czech goalkeeper in Tomáš Koubek. He played for Jablonec’s informal rivals Slovan Liberec in 2015/16 – on loan from Sparta Praha – and played twice opposite them, sketch 1-1 divided and winning 3-2 during home. He also played for Sparta opposite Jablonec in 2016/17, losing 3-1 away.
• Koubek is a stream Czech Republic general team-mate of Jablonec midfielder Michal TrávnÃk.
• Another Czech keeper, a country’s all-time record top hilt Petr ÄŒech, had a two-year spell during Rennes before fasten Chelsea in 2004.
• The Czech bar are one of 5 creation their entrance this deteriorate in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage. The other 4 are Akhisarspor, Dudelange, Sarpsborg and Spartak Trnava.
The coaches
• Sabri Lamouchi is a former French general midfielder who represented his nation during EURO ’96 after wining a domestic double that deteriorate with Auxerre. He also scooped a French pretension with Monaco in 1999/2000 before relocating to Italy. His initial managerial posting was as conduct manager to a Ivory Coast inhabitant side, whom he led during a 2014 FIFA World Cup. After dual and a half years in assign of Qatari side El Jaish, he became Rennes trainer in Nov 2017, replacing Christian Gourcuff.
• Petr Rada has taken on countless coaching jobs in his local Czech Republic given unresolved adult his boots in 1996, including a nine-month spell as inhabitant organisation trainer from Jul 2008. The former Dukla Praha defender’s longest army in assign of any organisation was during Jablonec between 2003 and 2007 and he returned over a decade later, in Dec 2017, steering a bar to third place in a Czech Liga and into a organisation theatre of a European bar foe for a initial time.