The former technician from Pailladin returns to La Mosson under the Bordeaux colors, for, why not, to have a go.
Yesterday, the Girondins de Bordeaux took the bus. Direction Hérault and more precisely Saint-Georges-d’Orques, where they set up their match watch. Jean-Louis Gasset and his assistant Ghislain Printant have thus rediscovered the air of their Hérault. And they must have enjoyed the breath of fresh air. The Bordeaux context is heavy, a bad cocktail of disappointing results and a troubled locker room. And the last press conference of the coach has supported a little more where it hurts.
“I was told a tough challenge but, in the end, I was lied to. It’s even harder than I thought”, said the 67-year-old technician, who arrived at the team’s bedside last summer. Linked until 2022 with the Girondins, Gasset wonders about his future after seven exhausting months. Between the recruitment of a first brilliant Ben Arfa then irritating, an end of cycle and contracts for many players and especially an austerity cure decreed by the American shareholder King Street with an estimated deficit of up to 80 million € and synonymous with social plan (24 layoffs), the season is trying. What to leave the Héraultais “Mark”, with a desire: “Finish as best as possible” this campaign.
Black series stopped
Gasset nevertheless arrives with a slight weight less in Montpellier since his Girondins ended last Sunday the bad series of seven games without a win started at the end of January (1 draw, 6 defeats).
Winner in Dijon (3-1), Bordeaux went in a flash from 15th to 11th place and could, if successful at La Mosson, be only two small points behind the MHSC. That is as much as before the first leg, on November 7, which at the time marked the renaissance in Montpellier (0-2), launched six days earlier in Saint-Étienne (0-1). Montpellier then made the trip to Gironde by bus. And no one in Bordeaux has forgotten it.
No one has forgotten Jean-Louis Gasset in Hérault either. Player then coach on several occasions of La Paillade, the last in 2017, son of Bernard, co-founder of the club with Loulou Nicollin, JLG returns home, so to speak, this Sunday. But he will not hesitate to give it a shot. As he already did in May 2018 with Saint-Étienne (0-1).
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