And playing in Bastia is not a trip like the others. The island context, the history of the island and many other factors make it a terrain where resisting the opponent is much more than a simple sporting expression. And it leaves memories many years later as evidenced by the 1987 French champion Jérôme Gnako who often played in Corsica with his various clubs such as Monaco or Bordeaux of course.
I played in the quarter-final or round of 16 of the Coupe de France in Ajaccio, it was quite tense and a few matches also in Furiani. They were tough matches. We rarely won easily in these Corsican regions. We know that travel in Corsica is always difficult, especially in Bastia. So indeed, it is a challenge for the neo Bordeaux leader to bring back a positive result from this trip. We know that the matches are very tight. We know envy and the Corsican grinta. So it’s always a challenge to bring back a good result from this trip – Jérôme Gnako
Lilian Laslandes invited to kick off
With these 16,000 seats, the Armand Cesari stadium in Furiani is not strictly speaking a large enclosure. Precisely, the proximity of a popular public and which unfailingly supports its team, it is what complicates the task of the visiting teams. A specificity that the Corsican club maintains against all odds, even in the football of 2022 as said Francois Caffarelformer Bastia player and now member of the board of directors
It is true that football has changed. Today, football is becoming a little more sanitized. Popular clubs like ours find it difficult to live with the popular fervor that represents our club. So we try to make our place today in the professional world and to stay there by always keeping a little bit of this identity, but also by respecting the rules which are imposed by the LFP in particular – François Caffarel
– Lionel Vadam
What strategy for navy and white?
The Bastia club that does not forget its elders! On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the stadium and the arrival of the Girondins de Bordeaux, the SCB invited Lilian Laslandes who played a year under the Corsican colors kicked off. But then in this very particular context, what strategy for Bordeaux? Put the bus on and score on the counterattack? An idea that does not appeal Yon Ecenarro of France Blue Gironde
We don’t quite know how to do that though. There is better in defense, we are starting to have a certain maturity with the rise in power and the sequence of matches of Yoan Barbet in central defense. But we don’t know how to close the game. And opposite, we have a team from Bastia with Régis Brouard who is still a fine technician, a guy who has adjusted his team match after match since the start of the season, he often asks players for a fairly high pressing. He plays a lot with the full-backs so he doesn’t refuse the game. So if we play at Fort Alamo, it’s not going to be good. The strong axis in front is the right side well. We have a left side, Nsimba who is very good and I will ask Nsimba to attack on that side. It will force Kévin Van Den Kerkhof to defend more than attack – Yon Ecenarro
Bordeaux must assume its status as leader of Ligue 2 and go to Bastia as a boss. There are 4 games left before the long interruption of the World Cup and the Girondins would be well advised to stock up on points to watch the World Cup quietly. Bastia Bordeaux, it’s live on France Bleu Gironde Monday at 8:45 p.m. with Yon Ecenarro and Clement Carpentier.