Frederic Antonetti, head coach of “Rennais”, and captain Kader Mangane held the press conference before the match against “Metallurg”.

- Have you manage to find out information about your opponent? The championship has not started yet and what form is the team on?

Frederic Antonetti: We started preparing four weeks and half ago. We held friendly matches.

- It is known that some players could not arrive in Tbilisi because of injuries.

- Some players could not come with us because of injuries. I left some of them in France.

- What do you know about your opponent?

- I have not watched its playing at Europa League. I only watched goals scored by them. We found last year’s match but head coach and players have been changed and it is difficult to judge the team. I noticed that “Metallurg” is a technical team.

- You took the sixth place at French Championship last year. What is your goal for the next season?

- Of course, we want to show better result.

- How important is for you to play at Europa League?

- It is very important.

- Which result will satisfy you tomorrow?

- Like “Metallurg”, we want to win too.

Kader Mangane: We arrived here to show good football. We had one month for the preparation.

- What do you consider as strong and weak sides of your team?

- We will try to follow instructions of the coach and to show good result.

When Antonetti was leaving the press conference hall, he recognized Davit Kipiani in one of the pictures on the wall and mentioned that he died in car crash…

Lasha Tabagari