The Girondins de Bordeaux travel to Clermont this Sunday (3 p.m.).
Since the start of the season, the physical condition of the Navy and White has been questioning with regular big air holes in the middle of a match.
Antonio Calado, the physical trainer and Valdimir Petkovic, the ex-trainer of the team are singled out.
It will therefore have been necessary to wait six months and twelve days to hear a member of the Girondins de Bordeaux publicly criticize the physical state of this team.
At the same time, it could only come from him, the new kid on the block.
Last Sunday, after the draw against Monaco for his first match on the Bordeaux bench, David Guion dared to point out the physical condition of his players by speaking of "air holes" in the middle of the match, of "disparate" levels between the players and adding that we would seriously have to "work physically"!
It must be said that the Marine et Blancs completely disappeared from circulation for half an hour of play in the second half against Monegasques, however reduced to ten.
They couldn't even cross the middle line.
So if this can be partly explained by the lack of confidence of a last L1 team which ends up retreating into its own goals, some players once again seemed completely cooked from the hour mark. is repeated this season at the Girondins.
Incidentally, in the corridors of Haillan surprisingly, since the arrival of the former coach of the Stade de Reims, we close our eyes a little less to the subject: "Yes, we are not at the top physically", "the resistance [of the players] is a concern, ”we slip.
So do the Girondins really have a physical condition problem?
And above all, is this one so catastrophic?
A crying deficit in the duels
To answer these questions, what better than a few figures.
Even if it is sometimes necessary to be wary of it, example of the number of kilometers traveled (PSG is the team which runs the least in L1) or sprints.
For the record, despite "four catastrophic first matches on the physical level" according to the Bordeaux staff at the start of the season, the Girondins were part of the Top 10 teams in the championship in these two rankings after 13 days.
Unfortunately since then the LFP (Professional Football League) has not made new updated figures public.
She prefers to communicate on individual athletic performances.
It is therefore difficult to know where the Navy and White are in these two sectors.
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But there are still others to get an idea of the state of form of the troops.
We can think of duels or pressing, without forgetting to temper its figures since the state of mind of the players and the tactics of a team necessarily come into play. Small anthology:
13th team in the number of duels played (3620)
48% of duels won (worst team with Lorient and Clermont)
52% of defensive duels won (worst team with Angers and Montpellier)
14th team in aerial duels
47% of aerial duels won (second worst team)
387 collective pressings (second worst team)
38% of successful pressings (only Lorient does worse)
14th in the number of second balls disputed (1359)
We can also add those of tackles (19th) and interceptions (16th).
Another alarming statistic for the Girondins, they are the Ligue 1 team that is the most dispossessed of the ball.
If the technical aspect, and we have seen much worse in Bordeaux than this season, is to be taken into account, the physical mobility of the players necessarily raises questions on this subject.
Finally, it is fair to recall that the Navy and Whites regularly finish their match well (nine goals scored between the 75th and the 90th), the problem therefore lies in the huge air pockets they experience in the middle of the match as underlined David Guion and a team unable to maintain a certain intensity over 90 minutes.
Whose fault is it… Calado or Petkovic?
So who is responsible for this situation?
On the front line, of course, we find Antonio Calado, the club's physical trainer.
Indeed, the work of the Portuguese has been a lot of talk within the Girondins since the start of the season.
Arriving out of nowhere last summer with the new management, the former assistant to Miguel Cardoso had not trained in a club for two years.
He was lately working on an athlete fitness program, Neuroexcellence.
Before, he had accompanied his compatriot to Celta Vigo, AEK Athens… and FC Nantes: “In my memories, he was not the chief physical trainer, he just took care of the rehabilitation of the injured.
He was not really the number 1, “explains Anthony Walongwa, former defender of the Canaries.
Contacted by
20 Minutes,
Miguel Cardoso refused to tell us precisely what Antonio Calado's role was.
At the time, the physical condition of the people of Nantes had also been singled out.
“He is part of the new generation with different methods, continues Walongwa.
They no longer land with pure racing.
They do everything with the ball to integrate the reality on the ground.
It's hard to say if one method is better than the other, but it's true that it can cause difficulties with older players.
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In Bordeaux, for example, this was the case with Laurent Koscielny.
“Me, what bothers me the most is that on a daily basis there is no common thread.
It's a bit, we adapt day by day.
It's not picky at all.
Even the cardio tests, he does not want to take it into account.
He prefers a questionnaire every morning, are you okay or not?
But the players, they say what they want, ”explains a close friend of the team.
At the club, many have fun recounting the day he advised players to take pickle juice to avoid cramps... Others also point to his lack of collaboration, which caused several incidents with the medical staff and the Vladimir Petkovic's assistants in recent months.
The Portuguese also changed the GPS or the software on which the club had been working for years.
But Antonio Calado is not alone, another man is in the sights.
This is the former coach of the Nati, sacked by the Girondins a few weeks ago.
According to the Portuguese's supporters, the latter did not have the freedom to work with Vladimir Petkovic, as in the past with Miguel Cardoso.
“He could only really work during the breaks”, explains a member of the club before tackling the Swiss directly: “We realized over the weeks that the training sessions were much too short and above all that the intensity was very low with a lot of stops during these.
It was very detrimental to us.
“A finding that some players confirm today.
"The intensity in training has been doubled" with Guion
In any case, there seems to have been a real awareness on this side in Haillan, and David Guion is not for nothing.
After a first week of observing tactics above all, the technician began to take matters into his own hands with the approval of his management.
For example, we have reviewed exercises without a ball.
An in-depth analysis work was requested from Antonio Calado.
The objective is not to redo a preparation, there is no time for that but to increase the workload gradually to be at 100% in two to three weeks maximum.
“It's simple, this week, the intensity in training has been doubled compared to the Petkovic era.
But we must also be very careful about injuries, ”reports a leader.
That is to say.
David Guion also intends to take advantage of the next international break scheduled for the second half of March.
He is thinking with the club about the possibility of a friendly match.
An option that his predecessor had always refused this season.
It could only be beneficial from a physical and tactical point of view before tackling the final sprint.
But in the meantime, we will have to give everything with the means at hand this Sunday in Clermont…
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