“With this kind of performance, we go straight to Ligue 2”. On Prime Video following the match, Girondins defender Enock Kwateng did not try to hide his anger: in Bordeaux, nothing is going well. But then not at all. Already beaten on their last two receptions (Lille, Marseille), the Girondins “chained” Sunday, being atomized this time in Rennes (6-0).
If the big maneuvers were launched this week by the Gironde management – banishment of several players, including Laurent Koscielny -, they obviously did not have the expected effects. Without the 36-year-old former tricolor international, Bordeaux sank. We do not know if the presence of Koscielny would have succeeded in stabilizing this defense made of Swiss cheese and gaping holes. We’ll never know. The players of Vladimir Petkovic, whom its president Gérard Lopez was striving to consolidate during the week, were already going so far to hope for something other than this spanking in good and due form.
The chalice to the dregs
Among the clubs most impacted by the CAN (Alfred Gomis, Hamari Traoré, Nayef Aguerd, Kamaldeen Sulemana), Stade Rennes did not even need all their strength to do very badly: Martin Terrier (32nd), Benjamin Bourigeaud on a superb free kick (43rd), Gaëtan Laborde (61st), Adrien Truffert (69th) and Serhou Guirassy with a double (89th, 90th + 2) participated in the recital. And offered fourth place to the Bretons, two points from the podium.
Reduced to ten following the exclusion of Issouf Sissokho (50th), the Girondins, seventeenth to one unit from the play-off place, lived a real hell at Roazhon Park. In glaring lack of results since the start of the season, Bordeaux is a French monument in danger. We must no longer hide it, Ligue 2 is very topical for the Girondins, if they do not shake themselves. Petkovic, Lopez or another will have to find levers, new ones, once more, to wake up a team which has conceded its biggest defeat in the Championship for 36 years. And a 9-0 in Monaco, in January 1986.