"Trust young people ...", blow of bluff or true will of Sousa?

• The Girondins are moving again this Saturday (8 p.m.) to Metz.
• After the disappointing new draw at Brest, Paulo Sousa says it may be time to trust the young players in his squad.
• But in reality, this statement looks more like a pressure on the executives of the team than a real will.

He managed to keep calm, unlike his captain, Benoit Costil. But one wonders how because Paulo Sousa was to have big on the potato Wednesday night after the new draw of his players in Brest (1-1) when they led the score and especially were in numerical superiority in this meeting. His anger was therefore cold, but as often his words, they were well chosen.

If he continues to ask in public "time" to change the mindset of his team, the Portuguese seriously begins to get impatient: "I see players very relaxed for a while. I try to continue to educate them in the culture of winning but if you do not have the opportunity to change the minds of the players, you have to think and make decisions. »Which ones?

Who is he talking about exactly?

Faced with a team that has stagnated over the months despite the arrival of eight recruits since last summer (Koscielny, Mexer, Kwateng, Aït-Bennasser, Benito, Oudin and Pardo), Paulo Sousa has come up with a new solution:

“Maybe you have to trust young people. They have fewer abilities, but maybe they, at least, will want to give everything. "

It remains to be seen who speaks the Bordeaux coach? Adli, Maja, Kwateng, Kalu, Jovanovic all members of the first team and some of them play regularly or very young players from the reserve who have been training for some time with his group (Zerkane , Lemoine or Sow).

Good the speech of Paulo Sousa which opens the door to young people should please some! We will now wait for the acts ...

One might think that these are the first to listen to the Portuguese's criticisms of the latter this week: "They are not ready, not only for a question of mentality which is far, far ... From all the players who 'we integrated here, we had a lot of difficulties on the question of mentality. On a technical question, they are good players, at the tactical level too, but the integration of space, time, where the ball is, the opponent, all that, a lot is missing. "

A good pressure shot to its usual holders

If he is not the kind of coach tossed things up in the air like that, Paulo Sousa is a communication ace. And this statement also looks like a bluff or pressure depending on one's preferences. History to tell his players that it may be time for everyone to take responsibility like the flawless captain Benoit Costil. Words can sting: “There are times when you have to be determined and I see players relaxed at times. If we were not a technically and tactically strong team that masters its matches, I would understand but that is not our case. We are not PSG! " Thanks for the reminder.

Here are the 20 players selected for the trip to the @FCMetz! #FCMFCGB pic.twitter.com/hbRK2JRrBa

Finally difficult to see clearly in all this even in the group selected for the match in Metz this Saturday (20h). If we can notice the presence of three very young players (Corentin Michel, Ismael Saw and Mehdi Zerkane), we can also observe the absence of Vukasin Jovanovic, Samuel Kalu and especially Josh Maja whose behavior would not be exemplary at the moment . And then finally why turn everything upside down in Lorraine while the Girondins remain all the same on a series of three games without defeat in Ligue 1 after a very complicated period (six defeats in seven games between late December and early January)…

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