Jean-Louis Gasset, the trainer of the Girondins de Bordeaux.
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The Girondins de Bordeaux travel to Monaco on Sunday (5 p.m.) on the occasion of the 9th day of Ligue 1.
Jean-Louis Gasset is looking for solutions so that his team stops having moments of absence especially at the start of the match and calls on his players to be ambitious.
The people of Bordeaux sometimes seem to suffer from an inferiority complex.
20 Minutes discusses the question with Denis Troch, former coach who became a mental trainer.
It's a feeling of déjà vu.
Maybe not necessarily for Jean-Louis Gasset.
But certainly for the supporters of the Girondins de Bordeaux.
The fact of seeing their team start a meeting in a completely apathetic way as in the victory against Nîmes, last Sunday.
This observation does not date from today like that of seeing the Navy and White completely stop playing from the moment they lead in the score.
In the recent past, they have someone on the bench to point out this problem: Gillot, Sagnol, Gourvennec or even Sousa when he arrived.
Jean-Louis Gasset, he has noticed it gradually since the start of the season.
In Angers, he had seen his team “still start very timidly, as if a little paralyzed.
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In Marseille, he saw players "completely paralyzed" even before the meeting.
Nîmes was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
The Bordeaux coach ended up cracking and made two changes in the 40th minute of play. "Often, we are criticized for delaying too long," he will rightly justify himself.
In any case, the evil seems deep.
An inferiority complex over time?
On this subject, the man with the cap even speaks of a "big problem" about these periods of absence and to recall that "to see a shy team in an empty stadium, it is a horror.
Nobody will say the opposite.
The players themselves recognize this recurring evil.
Since it has been going on for several seasons, it cannot be physical.
Technical?
Difficult to explain when it is against Angers or Nîmes and that now there is a minimum of talent with Ben Arfa.
The problem is in the noggin as they say.
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Former coach in L1 and L2, Denis Troch, who has become a mental trainer, has made it his specialty: “There is always an explanation for an illness, especially if it becomes frequent and therefore toxic for a group.
Already, we must not be in - it's like that anyway - we must work on it at all costs and start by demystifying this situation.
" But what ?
The club's sporting downgrade?
A so-called inferiority complex against supposedly stronger teams like Monaco, this Sunday (5 p.m.)?
Because if against some teams it passes, against those at the top of the table it has not worked and for a long time.
If he does not like that this expression of "inferiority syndrome" is used, Denis Troch recognizes that it can become established over the years.
And that's the worst thing to listen to him: “Not acting and letting him settle can be terrible because even before the game the opposing team will have an ascendancy.
In a way, we give it our strength and we lose ours.
We shoot ourselves in the foot.
"He calls on the players" to become aware "of the situation and" collectively because the problem is not individual since players certainly did not have this fear in them when they were in other clubs.
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Gasset wants ambitious players
Even if a coach must often be a fine psychologist, he admits that "it is complicated for him because he must take a step back, distance from the situation while often being in the emotion with his players to transmit his will and ideas.
However, "we will have to find a solution" as repeated Jean-Louis Gasset.
“He's experienced enough to know what to do,” adds Denis Troch.
The Bordeaux coach already has an advantage over these predecessors.
He has five changes against three before.
It helps when you have to shake up a team after 30 minutes of play. But he can't do that every time: “I'm looking for the trick.
They have to let go from the first minute and we have to get a good result with a team that is stronger than us (on paper).
This famous click.
This reference match.
To achieve this, he calls as often as he can his players "not to be enough of what they have":
We must stop being satisfied with the little we have, with what we do.
We must have this ambition.
We have young players who hope to become great players, we have to show it and not show it every fourth shot.
Great players are good at every game.
We must stop with we win, that's good, we lose, it does not matter!
It won't do it with me!
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He warns.
But Jean-Louis Gasset especially hopes deep down that his team “will have this ambition to do better than a year of transition.
Otherwise, it could be long.
But as often, that's up to the players to decide!
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