Both teams have the same number of points (36) after 31 days. But with the approach of one of the classics of Ligue 1, the 135th in history this Sunday, the winds of April seem more promising to Stéphanois.
Very serious and inspired to Nimes, ASSE ideally launched its sprint end of the season and a victory against Bordeaux would allow him to get almost definitively closer to the maintenance. But Claude Puel wants to keep his players under pressure: “The victory against Nîmes should not hide that we are still missing five or six points and that we have a schedule that is difficult. (Paris, Lille, Marseille during the last six days). There is nothing done“.
Bordeaux no longer responds
In the first leg, on December 16, the Stéphanois came to seek their first victory since 11 games. Bordeaux is not there but is also going through a strong area of turbulence. Only one victory (Dijon) and nine defeats in the last eleven games. Between a locker room plagued by dissension and with absent management, Jean-Louis Gasset no longer really seems to have both hands on the Gironde handlebars.
Green, the next game
The return to Geoffroy-Guichard of the former coach of the Greens and while his deputy Ghislain Printant is still in legal proceedings with ASSE, does not attract particular attention. Eyes will rather be on Etienne Green.
Jessy Moulin and Stefan Bajic are new packages. The number three goalkeeper of the Greens will therefore come back after his major performance in Nîmes. Back from Senegal, Boubacar Fall should play the role of understudy.
Timothée Kolodziejczak is also making his comeback. On the other hand Anthony Modeste and Miguel Trauco do not appear in the group of 21 players called by Claude Puel.
- ASSE – Bordeaux to be experienced live and in full on France Bleu Saint-Etienne Loire from 2:30 p.m. this Sunday.