The atmosphere is heavy at the Girondins de Bordeaux. During this 27ᵉ day of the Ligue 1 championship, the Marine et Blanc were beaten by Troyes at home (0-2). However, this meeting was a great opportunity to take a hit against a direct competitor for maintenance. Only, facing the defensive block of ESTAC, the Girondins did not know how to find the solution to make the difference and even conceded two penalties. The Bordelais never knew how to react and showed a more than worrying passivity.
– Laurent Theillet
Technically too correct…
This week, David Guion, the coach of the Girondins de Bordeaux had mentioned the fact “to pack the match against Troyes” to win. A runaway that unfortunately never took place during a meeting where the Navy and Whites suffered for the majority of the match. With only three shots on target, David Guion’s players failed to convert the few chances they were able to get. Like Hwang Ui-Jo, Yacine Adli and Rémi Oudin, who in the first period never managed to find each other. The Girondins coach also regretted this technical waste in Clermont last week.
Efficiency in front of goal is not there – David Guion, Girondins de Bordeaux coach
In the second half, the entry of Alberth Elis and M’Baye Niang gave hope for a change in the offensive animation but nothing helped. The Bordeaux attack, so dashing in the first part of the championship, seems to be taking the hit, like Hwang who hasn’t scored in the last three games and Albert Elis who is coming back hard from injury.
During the meeting, the bad passes multiply, the bad choices too and efficiency in front of goal is not there. An observation shared by coach David Guion “That’s what I’ve noticed since I arrived. On the three games each time, we do not manage to make the right gesture forward, to put the right pass, even if we are facing reinforced defenses. Technically, it was far too fair.”.
… but also physically
This team struggles technically, but also physically, like the two penalties conceded by Gideon Mensah and Fransergio, each time overtaken by the races of the Trojan attackers. Like a feeling of deja vu for Bordeaux residents often penalized for avoidable faultsincluding eight penalties conceded this season and no arrests.
The usual team leaders like Yacine Adli Where Josuha Guilavogui were spectators of this first defeat under the area David Guion, without ever finding the solution to remobilize their team. Perhaps they accused the blow, physically? For several weeks, Adli and Hwang seem to be pulling the rope, some have been asking the eternal question of physical preparation.
A lack of ambition and aggressiveness sanctioned by the whistles of the Ultramarines, at the end of the match. “When you get booed like that at home, it’s terrible but the fans are right! We play a match where we do not score goals at home. We wanted to start our conquest operation and we can’t. I’m angry, frustrated and disappointed“, raged at the end of the match the new captain, Guilavogui.
When you get booed like that at home, it’s terrible but they’re right! – Josuha Guilavogui
A team that loses its nerves
Dead last in the championship 11 days from the end, Bordeaux showed many signs of annoyance during the match. In 90 minutes, the team received six yellow cards. At the end of the match, David Guion’s assistant, André Monteiro, notably received a red card. Frustrated players on the pitch like the yellow card received by young Bordeaux goalkeeper Gaëtan Poussin for protesting and who should be suspended against Montpellier. François Grenet, former side of the Girondins and consultant France Bleu, wonders about the capacity of the Bordelais to regain the upper hand: “I’m sure they are good guys, but they are not mentally equipped to rebel. You have to be shabby when you play the maintenance.“
On the fair play ranking, the Girondins are 19th and have the highest number of yellow cards received in the championship (72 in 27 games). The Navy and White will have other cleaver games for the maintenance to play at home (ASSE, Metz, Lorient) and will have to learn to control themselves when there is electricity in the air.