Bordeaux supporters should no longer have tears from crying in front of Girondins matches. For several years now, the scapular club has been sinking into a sporting crisis and a series of scenarios, each crazier than the last. After the descent into Ligue 2 two years ago, Bordeaux hoped to have an epic year and move directly back into the elite. The supporters believed in it last season before the chaotic end of the season and this total breakdown of a supporter against Rodez which punctuated the season with a non-competition on the last day. This year, Gérard Lopez’s club had clearly assumed its desire to quickly recover. David Guion was able to invest considerably in the summer transfer window with the biggest budget in the championship.
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Albert Riera cracked
But that was not enough, on the contrary. Bordeaux continues to be mired in a sporting crisis with disappointing results and the arrival of Albert Riera has changed absolutely nothing. The Spanish technician, who managed to make himself hated by other coaches in the lobby of French football with statements considered arrogant, was unable to put the Girondins back on track. The objective of climbing is now very far away since the club is incapable of stringing together victories and above all continues to show quite worrying weaknesses at all levels. So much so that at the club, we mainly talk about the objective of maintaining our position from now on while the Gironde team is stagnating between 13th and 14th place with only 6 points ahead of the red zone.
To read Bordeaux comes out of silence after the controversy over Albert Riera
This Saturday, the match against AS Saint-Etienne perfectly illustrated the Bordeaux season and the club’s dynamics for several seasons. Dominant, the Bordelais had done the hard part by opening the score. But now, the Bordeaux supporters have once again experienced humiliation. In numerical superiority and with several opportunities to make the break, Bordeaux managed to concede not one goal, but two goals from Stéphanois in added time. The Greens therefore won in the last seconds and can believe more than ever in the rise. For their part, the Girondins disappointed again and it even degenerated at the end of the match since Albert Riera allegedly slapped a Stéphanois player at the final whistle, according to information from BeIN Sports. Asked about this at a press conference, he obviously hit the nail on the head in his own way. “Everything that is said on the pitch stays on the pitch. Whatever happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas.”
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A nightmarish season
After this new fiasco, which leaves Bordeaux in 14th place in Ligue 2, the Spanish technician once again had words that were difficult to understand. As since his arrival at the head of the team, he sticks to his speech and felt, once again, that his team had been superior to Saint-Etienne. “It is difficult to explain. I felt throughout the match that we were superior, the plan worked, and it’s a problem in the offensive and defensive penalty area like all the time. At halftime, we said to ourselves that it could be 0-4! The first half, we felt that there was only one team on the pitch. Afterwards, we are not a team made to play in transition. We started to suffer when the match was open, like all the time. When there’s a lot going on in the match, we’re a dead team. The problem is in the two surfaces as usual.he said before continuing.
“I’m not a person who shouts in the dressing room, now is not the time to do that. Neither today nor tomorrow morning, we will recover and then we will talk a little on Monday. In football, you have to be interested in what’s coming, not what’s past. We will try to continue to improve the players. Today for me, we were better than ASSE, but we lost. You can write it very big (…) This team must change things in the penalty areas, whether I am the coach next season or whether it is someone else. It hurts you in the end, when you have the chances, you have to do it, and you can’t be afraid of the opponent in the box. The players understood well what they had to do, there were spaces between the centrals and the full-backs, we caused a lot of problems for their full-backs. For you (editor’s note: the journalists) the most important thing is the result and the result is not good. And I don’t have the solution for that.” An observation of helplessness which is cause for concern. Sportingly, Bordeaux said goodbye to the climb a long time ago and Albert Riera seems to admit defeat. Maintenance is not assured and even if this were the case, the future of the Girondins is darkening because financially, the worries are also accumulating. This new evening fiasco confirms that Bordeaux is still very sick and the summer, once again, promises to be far from calm. On all floors…
Pub. on 04/20/2024 22:32 Updated on 04/21/2024 00:57
2024-04-20 20:32:22
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