Ligue 1 – Racing Club des Lenses – Girondins de Bordeaux – A week in the muddy waters of Bordeaux

It will not be easy for Bolert with the worst defense in the five major European leagues (58 goals conceded). In the L1 (19), Serenity was long gone on the Hailan side, as leaders had to work behind the scenes to rescue a Purdue patient and avert an industrial accident in May.

After sending off the unwanted Otavio and Laurent Koscielny in January – who remain at the club as international ambassadors – and contributing during the winter transfer window to four players supposed to supply a missing group with oxygen, it is thus the waltz of coaches that have moved the squad. week. Petkovic and his assistant Antonio Manicone clearly could not resist the massive defensive wreckage of their team in Champaign on Sunday. Their dismissal is a blow to the initial project of Gerard Lopez, who has long kept faith in the former Switzerland coach, but without any sway for weeks.

Guion tick all the boxes

In the game of musical chairs that followed, Blasil and Portugal’s Andre Monteiro, who arrived this summer from Mouscron – a Belgian club owned by Lopez – took charge and “In simplicity, by working on certain things“according to Blassell, to restore confidence in a group”aware of the danger“.”When we find ourselves at the bottom of the rankings, we doubt it, we fear making a mistake, and sometimes we put in less effort. From the moment there is no trust, we often lag further behind in duels, perhaps we communicate a little lessczech explains.

“In Lens, if everyone does their best mentally, technically, tactically and physically, there may be an outcome in the end.Blasell, who will sit on the bench with Montero, added that no number 1 had been selected yet but had not yet been formalized due to the separation proceedings with Petkovic. This should be the case next Monday. The search for this firefighter will take three days to Gerard Lopez and his technical director Admar Lopez, who studied several profiles before choosing David Geon.

At 54, the former Reiss coach, known for being quiet, stern and close to his players, was tracked down this summer before picking Petkovic, a brighter name after his Euro success. Revealed in Chambery (N3) who reached the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France 2011 after eliminating three L1 clubs (Monaco, Brest and Sochaux), Guion confirmed in Reims with the L2 Championship title, comfortable stay (8 and 14), punctuated by European qualification ( 6th) after 57 years in the past, with a good defensive base (best defense in L1 during the truncated 2019/2020 season). What’s wrong with Girondins this season.

This aspect of his biography and his knowledge of L1 certainly played against his main rivals, David Bettoni, the former assistant Zinedine Zidane at Real Madrid who dreams of becoming No. 1, or the young Portuguese Joao Sacramento, who was at Lille. Staff when Lopez was on top of the mastiff.