The Girondins of Hwang can no longer do so at all.

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Philippe LOPEZ / AFP

  • The Girondins bowed at the last minute against Metz.

    They are six losses in seven games and the red zone is getting closer and closer.

  • Jean-Louis Gasset made strong choices by aligning only players "who will be there next season" and by dismissing others perhaps permanently.

  • The only good news in this slump, the players do not seem to have completely given up yet.

You don't shoot an ambulance.

Even less when the patient is on the verge of a coma like the Girondins.

This Saturday, they chained a sixth defeat in seven games in Ligue 1 against Metz (1-2) at Matmut Atlantique.

The encephalogram is therefore not far from being completely flat: “The team is sick.

We are worried.

We must quickly ensure the maintenance ”, admits an Alain Roche dispatched as a firefighter on duty after the meeting, while the Bordeaux house has been burning for several weeks now.

And for the moment, the sports director of the Navy and White does not manage to reach the fire at all.

Even when the state of mind is there as against Messins, things do not turn on the right side, like the second Lorraine goal conceded in stoppage time. To the point for Jean-Louis Gasset to ask himself "what 'did we do' to deserve this this Saturday.

"This defeat concludes a dark week", marked by more and more gaping cracks in the locker room, the huge rant of Laurent Koscielny against his own teammates and the hospitalization of young midfielder Dilan Bakwa due to an important health concern.

Black is black as the other would say.

The Girondins bowed at the last minute against Metz.

- Philippe LOPEZ / AFP

Will players soon be sidelined?

At least, we cannot blame the chief doctor, Jean-Louis Gasset, for standing idly by in front of his patients.

As he had announced in the week, he decided to tighten his group and only aligned "players who will surely be there next season" except perhaps Youssouf Sabaly who received an offer of extension but no has not yet given an answer.

Laurent Blanc's former deputy drew up a blacklist: Poundjé, Jovanovic, De Préville or even Briand are included.

Not sure that we will see one of these players wearing the Girondins jersey again by June.

Some could even be removed from the professional workforce at this rate, even if Alain Roche says the club "will need everyone".

He also confirmed Jean-Louis Gasset in his functions, and without the slightest hesitation: “Yes, he's still the man for the job!

"Besides against Metz - and this is surely the only good news of the moment - the former defender" saw a team who wanted to get out of it and who did not give up with players who are aware of the situation ”.

Like his trainer, he calls on them "to hang on and have courage".

Indeed, today, management no longer really has the leverage to revive this team.

It will be at the discretion of the players.

“These are very complicated times to live, insists Gasset, but you have to keep your back.

If we show this state of mind in each game, we will go and seek these three victories [to maintain ourselves].

We must not panic.

I promise you we'll fight to the end.

"Still, nothing says that this will be enough for the Girondins ... Especially since the next match will see them face PSG.

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