• The Girondins de Bordeaux conceded a new draw at home against Nantes (1-1) on the 10th day of Ligue 1.

  • Vladimir Petkovic's players saw Nantes equalize when they were at ten because no player was available to replace injured Hwang.

  • If the Swiss coach is necessarily at fault for this error, he did not help his players immediately.

    They cracked on the first Nantes attack in numerical superiority.

We are ready to put our hand to cut that it has not escaped him. Come to celebrate as it should the 140 years of the club in a packed stadium (40,000 spectators), Aimé Jacquet must have immediately noticed that these Girondins had cashed the equalizer of FC Nantes (1-1) while they had been playing ten for a few minutes. These are the kinds of details, at a very high level, that a former world champion coach does not miss. And which lost this Sunday two more points to a Bordeaux team who did not need that after an already complicated start to the season.

Result of the races, still no victory at home this season in five games, an increasingly starving balance sheet (eight points in ten games) and above all, still a lost place in the standings (17th).

So is this new draw the fault of Vladimir Petkovic, the coach of the Navy and White?

📈 No winner in the Atlantic derby, the stats of this #FCGBFCN 📊!

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We play the 71st minute of play, Ui-jo Hwang who has just opened the scoring with a magnificent strike from the right is harmlessly injured in the ankle (sprain). At 71'30 '', he collapses and writhes in pain on the ground. Very quickly, it is difficult to imagine the Korean resumes, the medical staff confirms the change after forty seconds (72'19 ''). But, no one is ready to go home right away. It was still almost a minute (precisely, 50 seconds) before Hwang left the field (73'10 ''). However, again no replacement is ready to come into play! The match therefore continues at ten for the Girondins. First possession in numerical superiority for the Canaries, equalization of Chirivella at 74'06 ''. Finally,it will be two minutes and thirty-six seconds before seeing Mbaye Niang come into play ... for the engagement.

Yes because no one was ready on the bench

At a certain time, that of Paulo Sousa not to name it, that would have made the Portuguese go crazy.

We remember in particular his anger about Samuel Kalu, not ready to enter the field during a match.

Vladimir Petkovic is not the first to come.

The former Nati coach knows he is partly responsible for this error.

He broached the subject on his own after the meeting:

“We took a goal when we were ten and in difficult times, when we don't win often, all the little details are a burden and work against us.

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Except that this is not the first time since the start of the season that the staff has trampled on a replacement of this kind where you have to go very quickly.

This Sunday, the Girondins ended up paying it.

MOVE THERE IS NOTHING TO DO.



What an exceptional strike (again) from Hwang Ui-Jo!

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Vladimir Petkovic can also blame himself for his coaching.

Adli's exit for Fransergio unbalanced his midfielder and the Nantes goal comes from this middle zone, on the left, poorly defended.

Without forgetting that the entries of Kalu, Elis and Niang brought absolutely nothing.

Moreover, the Swiss have pointed them out a little before catching up: "I am not disappointed with the return of the replacements but we saw that something is missing, it can happen, we still need time. .

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No because the players could have done a lot better to help him

But this fact of play cannot be attributed only to Petko! Already on the spot, if he did not manage to bring in a player when the Korean was injured, he did so from the first stoppage of play. Unfortunately for the Navy and White, it was already too much. late. Then, it is not his fault if Otavio lacks aggressiveness in the midfield, that Mangas lets Corchia center and none of his defenders cut the trajectory of this one on the action of the goal. "Today, it is small errors that cost this goal, admits defender Enock Kwateng, if we are smarter [on this action], we must try to save time, to stay on the ground for example and maybe that this action does not exist. A scenario necessarily annoying for the Girondins.

Finally, Vladimir Petkovic may change system or players for the moment, his group does not necessarily meet his expectations, especially at the technical level.

And it is not the Swiss who lacks controls or easy passes on the pitch.

So as his colleague from the Union Bordeaux-BĂšgles, Christophe Urios would say, "we control what we can control".

And on this very bad change, he is not the only one responsible.

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