• The Girondins de Bordeaux once again lost at home against Losc (2-3) during the 19th day of Ligue 1.

  • Vladimir Petkovic's team, the worst defense in the championship, conceded three more goals.

    She is 43 goals conceded in 19 games.

  • 17th in L1 with only one point ahead of the red zone, the Navy and White found themselves in a very bad position at mid-season.

And three more that make 43! The worst defense in Ligue 1 once again honored its status this Wednesday evening at Matmut Atlantique. However, this time, the 40,000 spectators believed in it for a long time before seeing, once again, the Girondins collapse at the end of the match against Losc (2-3). An 8th defeat this season which plunges a whole club into doubt after a better shot in recent weeks. This Thursday morning, halfway through the championship, Bordeaux is in 17th place in the L1 with only one point ahead of the red zone.

But can this team hope for better for now?

How do you win matches when you take at least two goals per game?

The handicap is enormous!

It could even become irreversible if this team continues at the same pace in 2022. Today, we can even say that it is a miracle that the Bordelais are not relegated with such a defense.

For the record, this is the first since the 1978/1979 season that a club has conceded so many goals at this stage of the championship (19 days).

Little by little, this team is getting closer to sad records.

Always the same mistakes ... 

So yes, "he did not miss a lot of things" to the Girondins of Vladimir Petkovic against the champion of France. A quarter of an hour. And "they even deserved better" says the Swiss coach who is "happy with what he saw on the ground". This is not absolutely wrong. But after a while the political correctness, a language that the former coach of the Nati masters to perfection, it's fine. Perhaps he should take inspiration from his sporting director, Admar Lopez, to shake up his players. Especially when it is always the same individual mistakes that are repeated.

This Wednesday, there may still be two more. And wonder why Ricardo Mangas jostles his opponent in the middle of the box when the danger is relative or why Laurent Koscielny or Otavio do not release a large ball in the stands on the third goal? “You have to work on the players individually and that is what is most difficult to correct in football,” he explains. To achieve this, he could also try new players, that's his job. Why is there no competition on the left of the defense between Mangas and Mensah as on the right between Pembélé and Kwateng? Mystery. For Otavio, these defensive problems are a whole:

“It's very complicated to explain.

I think there is not a thing.

It's a lot of little things ... Communication, concentration, not necessarily the physical.

But we can't go on like this!

"

Obviously, taking three goals per game, like eight times in this first leg, is bound to be very expensive after a while.

A relegation for example.

The calendar is already scary

“We must not panic.

We must not get upset.

You just have to work more and above all, you have to be much more concentrated, ”says Otavio in the face of this increasingly worrying situation.

Vladimir Petkovic, him, recognizes that "it is not enough and that we can not be happy" at mid-season, even if for him his team "should have 6 or 7 points more" in the standings.

May be.

But saying that won't change the story.

Bordeaux has 17 points after 19 games and the worst defense in Ligue 1.

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However, we will have to quickly find a solution especially when we know that the Girondins will face Marseille, Rennes, Strasbourg, Lens and Monaco by mid-February.

Benoit Costil is already trembling in his cage.

To get out of it, we will have to stop “making every mistake” in 2022 as against Losc (three shots on target, three goals conceded).

In the meantime, the Marines and Whites will take care of them.

This remains the most important after the discovery of a cluster within the first team (17 cases of Covid-19 between the players and the staff).

But we will have to start defending quickly and not only in the face of this virus.

And finally, it is perhaps Jocelyn Gourvennec who best sums up the Bordeaux problems of the first part of the season: “This team has a lot of energy but it has no balance!

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