Not yet saved mathematically, AC Ajaccio is however experiencing a freewheeling end to the season, firmly clinging to eleventh place and 46 points, in this Ligue 2 championship. Despite everything, the Ajaccians want to finish the season, as best as possible, with three more days on the clock. It’s not easy to keep a group under pressure even if Olivier Pantaloni, the Ajaccio coach, remains confident about the seriousness of his group : “No, it’s not the holidays yet, we’re going to do the work until the end, trying to take as many points as possible by the end of the season. I think we have a group that is responsible, when we play a match, we never want to lose and be bad. The ideal, once again, is to give everything and finish the season as best as possible.”
“Bordeaux? a team with great potential but which missed its season »
For this penultimate trip of the season, the Ajaccians are traveling to Bordeaux, a club in great difficulty both sportingly and financially. A prestigious team, which completely missed its season, and which today finds itself in a somewhat gloomy 14e place in the ranking with 44 points. And, who is not yet safe, from a nasty surprise in the event of a negative result in the days to come. For Olivier Pantaloni “Bordeaux is a team with great potential, but which has missed its season. Despite everything, she has every interest in taking points to avoid a bad scenario. It is a team with a lot of qualities, but which did not succeed, for various reasons, in achieving the championship that it wanted to achieve. Now, this situation can be, for them, double-edged. They will play with pressure, but there is great potential, and we must not miss out on our match. It can also be a nightmare game for us, if the players go there thinking they’re on vacation, when that’s not the case at all. Bordeaux remains a prestigious team, and we will show pride to put in a solid match and come out of a match like this with our heads held high.”
Ajaccian supporters banned from traveling
A match where Olivier Pantaloni should still make room for the youth, as he has done for several matches, with the tenure or entry into play of several players from the training center, in order to toughen them up for the coming seasons . Finally, note that the Prefect of Gironde has issued an order banning the perimeter for AC Ajaccio supporters on the occasion of the Girondins de Bordeaux – AC Ajaccio meeting on Friday May 3, 2024 at 8 p.m. and that it is thus prohibited , to any person claiming to be a supporter of AC Ajaccio or behaving as such to access the Matmut-Atlantique stadium and to be present in the city center of Bordeaux.
