Jimmy Briand scored his 100th goal in Ligue 1. -

THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP

  • The Girondins de Bordeaux won 2-0 against Nîmes on this 8th day of Ligue 1.

  • In this victory, Jimmy Briand scored his 100th goal in L1 from the penalty spot.

    A historic achievement for the one whose first goal dates back to 2004.

  • In another register Hatem ben Arfa showed everyone who could still carry out actions of very large classes at 33 years old.

At least that was needed to get the Girondins out of their torpor this Sunday under water pumps at Matmut Atlantique.

A fantastic ride from newcomer Hatem Ben Arfa and above all a good kick from the old fox of the surfaces that is Jimmy Briand to offer an important victory to the Bordelais against Nîmes (2-0).

If there is nothing to take away from Rémi Oudin's beautiful strike to make the break, the penalty transformed by the attacker will remain in the archives for much longer.

In any case, in those of the former Rennais, Lyonnais and Guigampais.

Why ?

Because it is quite simply his 100th goal in Ligue 1 since the start of his career:

“It's beautiful, it's a symbolic number that rewards my career.

I'm very proud.

I think of all the teammates who helped me reach this number.

"

Jimmy Briand is only the 88th player to pass this bar and the second to do so at this age (35 years, 2 months and 23 days).

Moreover, it earned him a little text at the end of the match from another former, great striker of the Girondins, Sylvain Wiltord, who had remained blocked at 96.

Jimmy Briand's penalty against Nîmes.

- THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP

For the record, according to Jean-Louis Gasset, he should not even take this penalty so historic for him because Hatem Ben Arfa had been appointed before the meeting.

“I wasn't nervous when it came time to go and just happy at the time because I was completely in my game.

I had the impression that my teammates were happier than me ”, explains a Jimmy Briand, scorer then passer for Rémi Oudin as last week in Marseille for Josh Maja. 

The first 16 years ago during a Rennes-Montpellier

Teammates who paid him a nice tribute at the end of the meeting at the edge of the lawn with two paintings and a good bottle of Bordeaux.

For his coach, "it rewards above all his career (132 goals and 82 assists) and I am very happy for him because I know he has been waiting for it for a very long time".

Precisely eight months.

"It was not too long because already there was confinement so I could not score, slips a smile on Jimmy Briand's lips, I may not remember the 100 but I remember a lot of which the first at the end of the match during a Rennes-Montpellier on a center of Monterrubio.

It was Sunday May 23, 2004. A lease.

The Bordelais celebrated Jimmy Briand's 100th goal in Ligue 1. - Clément Carpentier / 20 Minutes

If the one who extended his contract last February until 2022 before the Girondins now hopes to "score as much as possible" until the end of his career, he can slip for this 100th goal a small "thank you" like all his comrades to another thirty-something, Hatem Ben Arfa.

For his second match with the Navy and White, the 33-year-old attacking midfielder performed an action he has the secret to blocking this meeting.

A 60-meter race with four defenders eliminated before being stopped irregularly in the box.

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A sign of fate there too because Jean-Louis Gasset was about to “take him out because he was tired, but with this kind of players you know that the spark can come at any time and he ended up doing this action.

“A high-class action that allows the Bordelais to return to the first part of the table before a complicated schedule (Monaco, Montpellier, Rennes and Paris).

And especially to Jimmy Briand to become a beautiful centenary… Not yet in age but in goal!

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