The confusion of the Girondins on one of the Nantes goals. – Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP
- Bordeaux was crushed (3-0) in Nantes, this Saturday.
- Apathetic, the Girondins have never really been able to worry a team from Nantes (18th and barrage), which comes down to two points.
- Jean-Louis Gasset estimated that only “fear” can explain such a pathetic performance.
In troubled waters on an extra-sporting level, the Girondins de Bordeaux really cannot rely on the athlete to find a little light. Victorious (1-0) last weekend in Rennes, the Bordelais relapsed very brutally this Saturday in Nantes. A 3-0 defeat against an opponent (18th) who comes close to two points now the men of Jean-Louis Gasset, two days before the end of the championship. With a draw and two victories in the last fifteen games, Bordeaux never ceases to have the head of a relegated potential.
“It was a non-match,” repeated Jean-Louis Gasset twice, in a silent press room hanging on to his first words. An almost flat encephalogram on the ground. Faced with the Canaries yet less dashing than a week ago in Brest (4-1), the Girondins dragged their misery the whole game. They never had the supplement of soul necessary for a formation playing its survival. “At the slightest hitch, we let go. We don’t play a game to save ourselves, we watch them and we wait. “
“There was only one boxer today …”
Without brilliance but showing incredible realism, Nantes hit three uppercuts. Bordeaux has never recovered. To continue with the pugilistic metaphor, Jean-Louis Gasset believes that his training “did not even go to war”. “There was only one boxer today,” said the technician, completely groggy and seeming (a bit) in need of solutions. Today, we were beaten in technique, in aggressiveness, in the management of the ball… We are mentally weak. The losses of ball, the lost duels, the replacements on blocks, it was too big! “The Girondins have yet struck ten times on goal, this Saturday – only once less than FCN -, but have only scored twice … Like this center behind Hwang for Sabaly, who has completely” messed up ”his resumption, just before half-time.
But how can we go from a determined, courageous Bordeaux – if not brilliant – against Rennes, to a Bordeaux without any soul or rebellion this Saturday? “There is only fear which explains it”, analyzes Gasset, who will be the only one to speak because no player (as too often) has come to assume in front of the press. In defense of the technician, “management players are absent [Ben Arfa, Koscielny, Otavio] and we lost [Samuel] Kalu yesterday at the last minute of training, in the last sprint, he hurt his thigh ”.
Bordeaux can no longer do without a huge questioning before the reception of Lens on Sunday. Gasset, always: “When we are in a difficult situation and we live an even more difficult season than expected, there is depression for a few days but afterwards, we have to bounce back and tell ourselves that we are going to get there. . “Except that there, frankly, we do not really see how …