OM | History – Rennes-OM: ideal preparation before Manchester

Always complicated to chain the Champions League and the championship, especially when we are about to challenge the European title holder, Manchester United. “We had won our first two matches, against Graz, then in Zagreb, we thought that a good performance at Old Trafford would almost be synonymous with qualifying, so we were in good spirits”, recalls Frédéric Brando, holder three days earlier. in Rennes, within a private Olympian team of Blondeau, Dugarry, Maurice, Bakayoko and Dalmat. “Rolland Courbis used to tell us about sequences of three matches in eight days before tackling the first of them, and it is also in this perspective that we slept in Saint-Malo, then took off for Manchester from
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