Rémi Oudin, author of a double, is congratulated by his teammates.

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  • The Girondins won their first victory in 2021 against Lorient (2-1) on the 18th day of Ligue 1.

  • Authors of good things but also of big disappointments, the Bordelais finished the first leg of the championship in 10th place.

  • If the Navy and White want to hope for better, for Jean-Louis Gasset it will only go through the recruitment of one or two players in the transfer window.

With a breath.

The Girondins de Bordeaux will finally finish the first leg of the championship well in the first part of the Ligue 1 table after their victory against Lorient (2-1) at Matmut Atlantique.

A seventh success (for five draws and seven defeats in 19 games) which so far sums up the season of the Navy and White where they are above all the roller coaster.

Capable of very good phases of play rewarded Saturday night by a double from Rémi Oudin, Jean-Louis Gasset's players can also experience terrible air holes as in the middle of the first period and at the end of the match against the Bretons.

This time, it was against the 19th in L1.

But during this first half of the season, this has not always been the case (Lens, Saint-Etienne, Reims or Metz) and this prevents the Girondins from looking upwards for the moment.

Rémi Oudin scored the first of his goals against Lorient.

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Finally a little serenity

“In terms of the game, we can do better, admits the Bordeaux coach, when you have to be disciplined and orderly (in Rennes, Paris or Lille), we are able to play good matches afterwards, today we do not has not enough technical mastery to hope for better.

“So failing to be brilliant, Bordeaux is solid this season and it's already not bad.

This allows the Girondins in particular to have some certainty and not to sink into the bottom of the ranking: They only lost against two teams in the second part of the table (ASSE and Stade de Reims).

For now, they therefore respect the saying: strong against the weak, weak against the strong.

The club has also found a little "serenity" in this first part of the season, as Jean-Louis Gasset rightly points out.

The person concerned has a lot to do with it, whether on or off the pitch.

If he knows how to get his messages across without taking tweezers with his players or shareholders, the former deputy of Laurent Blanc rarely puts oil on the fire.

He knew how to intelligently smooth things over in a club that was on the verge of implosion last July.

And the intensity of the conflict between its management and the supporters has necessarily decreased with the absence of the latter in the gallery for several months.

Gasset calls for recruits to progress

Now, the whole question is whether the Bordelais are capable of doing better?

Given the many disappointments of recent years, many doubt it.

"We have a good group with a lot of quality but we lack consistency because we cannot succeed in stringing together victories and making a series", recognizes Rémi Oudin.

As a reminder, the Girondins have not chained two straight wins in Ligue 1 for two years.

An eternity.

They will try their luck again next Sunday in Nice.

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To break this glass ceiling and see higher (Bordeaux beat only two members of the first part of the table, Rennes and Angers), Jean-Louis Gasset apparently has the solution.

He has been repeating it to whoever wants to hear it for weeks: “If we want to progress, we must readjust the workforce.

It would take one or two more players.

“Problem, this will not be possible without a downsizing of the workforce beforehand.

And even.

The Girondins are in such an economic situation that they can afford absolutely nothing in the transfer market.

Moreover, it will also be necessary to be careful not to weaken.

"We will perhaps have good news but also bad news, we must expect everything", dixit Gasset.

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