If the descent into hell continues, Ligue 1 risks losing two of its historic members with AS Saint-Etienne and the Girondins de Bordeaux. In great sporting difficulties, the two teams are at the gates of Ligue 2. An outcome foreordained for Pierre Ménès who foresees the worst.
Respectively twentieth (12 pts) and nineteenth (17 pts) in Ligue 1, AS Saint-Etienne and Bordeaux have linked destinies. The two historic teams in our championship may be living their last season in the elite. In great sporting difficulties, the Girondins de Bordeaux already seem resigned after a debacle inflicted on the outside by Stade Rennais. A state of mind far from being shared by the Greens who, despite a defeat against RC Lens (1-2), show contagious determination. Fighters, the Stéphanois seem to want to get out of it. However, it is Ligue 2 that awaits them…
” If I see Bordeaux and ASSE go down to Ligue 2? I want to say that one of the two yes. Both probably. Now, there is still, especially over this weekend, a big difference in behavior between the Greens and Bordeaux. The Greens, they lost at the last minute on a goal from elsewhere by Seko Fofana. They had really given everything with great courage. Well, there was not a crazy talent and an exceptional offensive power but we must still remember that Bouanga and Khazri are at the CAN and that Hamouma is injured as usual. They do what they can. They still rocked Lens. While Bordeaux, apart from the salad, they didn’t shake anything in Rennes. I saw a resigning Bordeaux team. Indeed, they have absentees but we ask them at least to give their all and not play on this rhythm of starlets. Yes, I am worried for both teams. It is true that for French football, it is important that Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne are in Ligue 1“said Pierre Ménès in a cold and chilling analysis.