Yvan plantey, on France Blue Gironde, spoke about the defense of the Girondins de Bordeaux who conceded the trifle of 37 goals in 16 days of Ligue 1.
“We see a lot on social networks and more and more ‘Petkovic resign’… I would just like to highlight something, it’s defense. Laurent Koscielny hasn’t been around for a while, and he’s starting to get old. Let’s look at the defense we have. We have Edson Mexer, last year, everyone agreed that he did not have the level to be a starter. Enock Kwateng was Youssouf Sabaly’s unmistakable understudy, and there wasn’t a moment in the season when we asked ourselves the question ‘should Sabaly be replaced by Kwateng?’. Stian Gregersen has just arrived, he has potential, but he arrives in a defense which is a field of ruins. And Ricardo Mangas, he is 23 years old, about sixty matches at a very high level. We have a defense which is inexperienced, and which last year clearly would not have started. We can say it, we take a lot of goals, but we must also see the level of players available to Vladimir Petkovic … That’s why the critics, that of asking for the resignation of Petkovic, I find them easy and hard. Afterwards, it wouldn’t be shocking to change it, but I plead the time ”.
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