After the announcement of the withdrawal of their owner, the King Street investment fund, the Girondins de Bordeaux hoped to raise their heads on the ground.
It was quite the opposite, on the lawn of Lorient, with a 4-1 defeat.
Strangled and unresponsive, the Aquitaine, placed under the protection of the commercial court since this week in order to avoid bankruptcy, chain a fifth defeat in a row.
Threatened with administrative relegation if no solution is found for the resumption of the club, Jean-Louis Gasset's men will also have to worry about their classification, four days from the end, with an alarming 16th place in the League 1. They are only one point ahead of their tormentors from Lorient of the day, 17th, and five in the red zone.
"We must protect ourselves"
“That makes us one cartridge less, there are four left.
We will give more.
We have to manage to sort things out, we have to protect ourselves from what is happening above, it will make us stronger, ”responded defender Paul Baysse at the microphone of Canal +.
In the meantime, there is only one direct relegation place to be allocated: Dijon has officially been relegated after its defeat to Rennes (5-1) and now has an impossible delay over Nantes and Nîmes, 18th and 19th respectively with 31 points.
The Crocodiles fell on the ground of a candidate for the European Cups, Lens (2-1), despite the red card inflicted on Lensois Issiaga Sylla after a spectacular - but involuntary - spike in the arcade of Renaud Ripart .
The other team most in danger in the race to maintain, Nantes, for its part managed to relaunch on the ground of Strasbourg, thanks to a stunning victory (1-2), which puts the Canaries at the height of the Nîmes.
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