Yacine Adli was once again present despite the defeat.

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Mehdi Fedouach / AFP

  • After Lyon, the Girondins bow once again to a big league, Lille (0-3).

  • Despite the defeat, the Bordelais have this time again responded present in the game with many reasons for satisfaction.

  • In midfield, Yacine Adli is asserting himself more and more while Seri could make his appearance in the group on Sunday in Brest.

At first glance, you could call it the Coué method.

Indeed, how can one say after a second defeat in a row in Ligue 1 in five days: "It's crazy but we are progressing" as Jean-Louis Gasset did after the little spanking received by the Girondins against Lille (0-3) at Matmut Atlantique this Wednesday.

But in reality, the Bordeaux coach is not totally wrong or even totally right.

So yes in the standings, it's zero points, but there is really better at the start of the year in Gironde.

First of all, the Bordelais have once again been able to raise their level of play against a much stronger opponent on paper.

"They are better than us technically and physically and then, it's not a team, it's a whole workforce" admits Jean-Louis Gasset.

But despite this initial observation, his players had the response as in Lyon where they deserved much better than a defeat.

Facing Losc, without a great Mike Maignan in goal, the Navy and White could surely have opened the scoring or come back in the match.

But as Swiss defender Loris Benito rightly points out, "it's the difference between very large teams and a mid-table team."

Still, the Girondins will not play Lyon and Lille every day.

Only Paris has yet to come for a little tour in the South-West at the beginning of March.

In the meantime, the Bordelais (10th) will find more affordable teams for them: Brest, Marseille, Nîmes and Metz.

And if they reproduce this kind of performance, they should quickly pocket a few points and resume their climb in the standings.

Despite this little halt, Loris Benito "does not see his team at all falling into a negative spiral".

Adli asserts himself, Seri arrives

Some players are also in a rather very positive spiral.

Rémi Oudin, still author of two caviars for Hwang against Lille, and especially Yacine Adli.

To the point of wondering if it was not his twin brother who played for the Girondins until 2021. What a metamorphosis.

The young 20-year-old Bordeaux midfielder is now three consecutive high-level matches in Ligue 1. And not against just anyone.

It's good because he has the qualities to become a very good player but he has to continue, explains Jean-Louis Gasset, he has to be even harder in the duel.

He still has some way to go.

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Hwang lacked realism against Maignan.

- Mehdi Fedouach / AFP

In any case, there is one that suffers from the comparison, it is his midfielder counterpart, Toma Basic.

Always so neutral in his game, the Croatian is worried about the emergence of Adli and the arrival of Jean-Michaël Seri.

The Ivorian could be in the group on Sunday after a week of quarantine.

Finally, the worst news of the evening does not necessarily come directly from the meeting but from the injury of Youssouf Sabaly, perhaps the best Bordeaux player in 2021. Victim of a muscle injury, the right-back had to forfeit and could be away for three or four weeks.

A real hard blow.

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