Return to Montpellier (Analysis) and projection to Rennes

Interesting or disturbing?

In terms of football, the 1st half reconciled us with our team.
As much as we had relied on the work of the collective more than on the quality of the game against Saint-Etienne, the cursor went up a notch in this area in the first period.

Once again, the team was able to come back by being led twice to the score (1-0 then 3-2), values ​​that we have not known for many years (the team completely broke up after having conceded the opening of the score).

Unfortunately, if Bordeaux has 6 pts in 7 games, it should not be by chance.
Yes, we just took 4 pts in 2 matches and on the road. Yes, a group, a framework begins to be created little by little. But the finding is still worrying. Bordeaux, in these last two meetings, conceded another 4 more goals. More than 2 goals per game in the first 7 games (16 goals in 7 games).

And then a recurring problem affects our team, the inability to keep a result.
Against Angers and Montpellier (2 points out of 6) while Bordeaux led each time in the score.
Against Lens, a defeat (2-3) while Bordeaux came back from 0-2 to 2-2.
Result: only 2 points out of 9 possible while 7 points out of 9 seemed accessible without defensive largesse tirelessly relaunching the opponent in the match.

Against Montpellier, we cannot come back from the locker room and stop playing, hoping that a “miracle” or a series of blunders on the part of the Montpellier residents will allow us to bring back the 3 points

And this question that comes up with insistence:
The real face of our team is that of the first or second half?

And Samuel Kalu had not equalized on a series of a little lucky counters, the analysis would have pointed the finger at the relapse of the Girondins, the patient far from being cured yet.

When we read between the lines the coach’s post-match statement, we understand that he did not like the roller coaster between nirvana and the dryness of the proposed game. Some would say that the output of Jean Onana completely changed our face.
Even if the former Lille player made an XXL performance in the 1st half, this analysis seems too easy or too fast.
It seemed that the slider of requirements of each dropped suddenly after returning from the locker room, position too low, hazardous clearances, nothing more nothing as if the mind had again let go for 30 minutes.

Another explanation is plausible, the blow of fatigue.
3 days after playing 45 minutes on a waterlogged field, the legs might have become heavy again after the break at La Mosson.
Vladimir Petkovic had decided and took the risk to line up the same 11 as 3 days earlier.
The wound of Jean Onana and the drop in Yacine Adli and Hwang Ui-jo could confirm this hypothesis.
Vladimir Petkovic may have to consider a larger staff review against Rennes with the risk of breaking this new positive dynamic.
On this balance depends the cure or the relapse of the Bordeaux patient.

Here are the Girondins4Ever ratings of the meeting between Montpellier and the Girondins de Bordeaux (3-3).

Costil : 5.5
Pembelé : 6
Stir: 3
Gregersen: 3
Quarter: 3.5
Sleeves: 4
Otavio: 5.5
Dilrosun: 5.5
Onana: 8
Forensic: 7
Hwang : 8
Fransergio: 2
Kalu: 6

After the scores, here are the Girondins4Ever Tops-Flops after the meeting between Montpellier and the Girondins de Bordeaux.

Tops (The same as in Saint-Étienne)

Hwang Ui-Jo. 8/10 – He walked on water

And to think that Bordeaux is looking for a new center-forward since the end of the transfer window. The two goals of the Korean have completely launched his season. A magnificent goal, incessant calls and in the right tempo, effective back-to-goal work, a boost that put the defense of Montpellier to death. The game was almost perfect even if in the second half, he was a little more in difficulty, maybe a little blunt.

Jean Onana. 8/10 – The right pick

In two meetings, he definitely convinced: his impact, his desire to move forward, a fairly fine technique. We finally found a replacement forAurélien Tchouaméni in Bordeaux. Next to, otavio sometimes looks like the little youngster lacking experience in these last two meetings. His exceptional goal shows that he is perfectly acclimatized and that he is in full confidence. Be careful, the hardest part now is to confirm over time. His absence (for muscle alert) in the second half was detrimental to our balance. We now hope that he will be able to come back very soon.

Yacine Adli. 7/10 – The regulator

A first half in line with his comeback against Lens and his match in the Cauldron. Technically easy, it improves the Bordeaux game. Choices that are always smart and always forward. A more complicated second half, like the rest of the team, where he tended to carry the ball too much. Hoping that he has some fuel left for the 3rd match of the week against Rennes on Sunday.

The Flops

Fransergio. 2/10 – The comparison with Onana

He came to Bordeaux to bring his experience to the Bordeaux midfielder as the youngster Jean Onana arrived to accumulate experience with the hope of gleaning a little playing time. And yet… An entry, at his post, catastrophic with a game systematically backwards, positioning errors and a lack of impact in the game which also costs us the 3rd Montpellier goal. We begin to doubt its adaptation …

Defense – 16 goals in 7 games

We will not be able to chain several victories in a row with a defense that takes so many goals. And again, when we look at all the matches, we could have been 20 goals in the bag without the clumsiness of the opposing teams. Yesterday, we felt like we were still in danger, even leading in the score, because you only have to see the ease with which Valère Germain was able to place his header to tie at 2-2 to understand that we are missing ‘A little bit of everything. Engagement in duels, a lack of communication and too much space left to the opponent behind our backs. Now that we finally (again) have a real offensive animation, it is essential to become impermeable defensively.

Match sheet

Montpellier – Bordeaux: 3-3 (1-2 at halftime)

In Montpellier (Stade de la Mosson), on September 22, kick-off at 7 p.m.

Bordeaux coach: Vladimir Petkovic

Composition of Bordeaux: Benoît Costil (1), Enock Kwateng (25), Timothée Pembélé (22) [puis Sékou Mara à la 77^ème], Ricardo Luís Chaby Mangas (12), Edson André Sitoe (4), Stian Gregersen (2), Javairo Dilrosun (21) [puis Samuel Kalu à la 45^ème], Yacine Adli (19) [puis Rémi Oudin à la 70^ème], Jean Onana (8) [puis Fransergio Rodrigues Barbosa à la 45^ème], Otavio Henrique Passos Santos (5), Ui-Jo Hwang (18) [puis Mehdi Zerkane à la 90^ème]

Montpellier coach: Olivier Dall’Oglio

Composition of Montpellier: Jonas Omlin (1), Nicolas Cozza (31), Mihailo Ristić (7), Arnaud Souquet (2) [puis Salomon Sambia à la 70^ème], Maxime Esteve (34), Florent Mollet (25), Leo Leroy (18) [puis Joris Chotard à la 70^ème], Jordan Ferri (12) [puis Elye Wahi à la 82^ème], Téji Savanier (11), Stephy Alvaro Mavididi (10) [puis Béni Makouana à la 90^ème], Valere Germain (9) [puis Nicholas Gioacchini à la 82^ème]

Goals: Germain (11^th), Hwang (18^th), Onana (30^th), Germain (51^th), Mollet (72^th), Kalu (85^th)

Warnings: Gregersen (90^th), Mara (92^th) for Bordeaux

The team against Rennes?

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