The solution will be collective not individual!
A victory after the sinking experienced last weekend against Montpellier can not hurt. Last Sunday, at 11 against 9, Bordeaux failed to win. A collective problem for the former Girondins and current coach of Pau, Didier Tholot
In the last 40 minutes of Montpellier, I didn’t see a team that wanted to score goals, I saw players who wanted to score to save the game. But football doesn’t work that way. There are gaps, there are movements to be made without the ball, there are crosses to be put in, there are players who cut, so that means that you win collectively and you don’t overthrow anything on your own. That means it will go through the collective. Today there is more and more fire. We must not hide, it is a situation that will be very complicated to reverse. But you also have the chance to receive Metz, Lorient and Saint-Etienne, which are three poorly ranked teams. So, you have to take points, but the players will have to think that it will not come from just one but that it will come from the 11, 18 who will be on the score sheet – Didier Tholot
A more convincing second half against Alaves
So against Alaves, 19th in La Liga, have the navy and whites learned the lesson of Montpellier? No follow-up according to Dorian Bercheny of France Bleu Gironde who was on site in Bayonne
We saw a first half very close to that of Montpellier, because this formation of Bordeaux tried to make the individual exploit and it is there where you do not find the shifts. In the second half, finally, they tried to play a little more collectively. We saw a Mbaye Niang who moved a lot, which brought solutions, which he had not done against Montpellier where we had 3 attackers in the second period who remained on the offensive line and who did not necessarily pick up , there when it picks up, when it comes to play as a pivot, it offers complementary solutions – Dorian Bercheny
How Didier Tholot’s Pau FC saved its 2020/2021 season
During last season with Pau, Didier Tholot experienced a very complicated situation: 3 wins in 21 days, relegation almost all the time until the 29th day, the club ended up saving and finishing 14th in the championship. So how did he get his team back together?
At 15 games at the end, everyone said it was the last chance game that we had 14 points that we won’t make it. And me, I made a table, I told the players here, there are 15 games, out of the 15 games, we have so many points to take and I showed the players with a table that we had needed six wins, three draws, but we were also entitled to six losses. As long as the six defeats are not made, it means that we are still able to save ourselves. We had a victory, then a second and finally, we regained confidence. We must play down this context which makes the team become sterile, does not move forward. It’s like in life, when you think more positive than negative, you manage to get by – Didier Tholot
And if this victory against Alaves, in an empty stadium because behind closed doors, on a Friday at 1 p.m. which may seem so anecdotal even perhaps ridiculous, marked the start of a new confidence? Nothing prevents you from believing in it and thinking positively, as Didier Tholot advises.