Rennes vs Reims Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Rennes have lost their last four Ligue 1 matches against Reims without scoring -their longest current run against a top-flight club.
Rennes have lost three of their last four home games against Reims in Ligue 1 (W1), having gone unbeaten in their previous 13 (W8 D5).
Rennes have 13 points after five Ligue 1 matches this season, their best tally at this stage in their top-flight history. This is the first time that the SRFC have been top of the table this far into a season since MD13 in 2010/11 (finishing 6th).
Rennes are unbeaten in their last eight Ligue 1 games (W7 D1) and could make it nine in a row the first time since August-October 2010 (9). Reims have lost their last four Ligue 1 games, the longest current such run in the division.
The Champions have not suffered five consecutive defeat in the top-flight since October-November 2015 (6).
Rennes could win five consecutive Ligue 1 games at Roazhon Park for the second time under Julien Stephan after October-December 2019 (also 5), having done so only three times prior to this in the 21st century: in November 2004-April 2005 (8), February-April 2006 (5) and November 201 a-February 2011 (7).
Reims are winless in their last six Ligue 1 away games (D3 L3), their longest such run away from home since their return to the top-flight in 2018/19.
Reims have the youngest average starting XI in Ligue 1 this season (24 years old and 262 days). Serhou Guirassy scored three goals in his first three Ligue 1 starts for Rennes and could become the first player to score 4+ goals in his first four starts for the club since Olivier Monterrubio in July-August 2001 (5).
Boulaye Dia has scored 26% of Reims' Ligue 1 shots this season (10/38), with only Ibrahima Niane for Metz (30% -16/54) and Adrian Grbic for Lorient (28% -10/36) recording a higher such ratop. The striker has scored two of the club's three top-flight goals this season.
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