The Bressuire amateur club faces the team with the legendary name of the Girondins de Bordeaux on the Deux-Sévriens pitch. Nothing is a foregone conclusion for this French Cup match which often gives rise to surprises. The match can be followed live on our 100% Nouvelle-Aquitaine .3NoA channel from 4:45 p.m. this Sunday, November 17 with comments from Marius Trésor and Freddy Vetault.
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This is a Coupe de France match which is not a foregone conclusion, even if on the poster there is the legendary name of the Girondins de Bordeaux. This team which will play on the pitch of FC Bressuire. The Deux-Sévrien amateur club, sixth in the regional 1 championship, faces the legendary Girondins de Bordeaux club, “a monument” according to the expression of coach Samir Bakir. “In general, the little one always has more desire than the big one” he smiled.
Commenting on the match, a figure in French football and former Girondins player, Marius Trésor. It also goes in this direction. “Bressuire, who is hosting a big name in French football, surely wants to bring down this team. Bordeaux, on the other hand, wants to continue the adventure in the Coupe de France. So, I think that Bordeaux, at the start, will he plays his football, has a chance of beating Bressuire.”
The Coupe de France is a competition full of surprises. There are hardly any favorites. The team that manages to win is the one that forgets its status and, on the pitch, gives its all.
Marius TrésorCommentator
Bressuire has “a lot of desire, we’re looking forward to it” says coach Samir Bakir.
Marius Trésor observes the two adversaries. “Bressuire, in his championship, is well placed and things are going very, very well. So, the task is still not simple (for the Girondins Editor’s note)”
After playing in a round of 32 against Ligue 1 club Sochaux in 2014 and a round of 16 against Poiré sur Vie in 2015, Bressuire once again finds himself in the spotlight of the French Cup. A football festival for which the club of more than 500 licensees is preparing, more than a hundred volunteers are mobilized to welcome the 3,300 spectators expected on Sunday at the Métayer stadium.
“Try to create a sensation, play the match, don’t thwart”,, here are the coach’s intentions. “It’s not every day that we play the Girondins.” confides Samir Bakir.
I want to let go of the players.
Samir Bakir
Coach of FC Bressuire
The Girondins will of course try to respect the hierarchy, on the strength of their seven consecutive matches without defeat in the league and carried by their star striker Andy Carroll, author of 7 goals in 6 matches. A team that is going back on track, as Marius Trésor observes. “I would say that there are a few boys who went through the Girondins de Bordeaux training center and, given the situation of the club, who came back to help the club regain a little of its former aura. You also need to know that these boys know that a lot is expected of them. So, from time to time, you will also have to be a little lenient when things don’t work out because they would have. could not come to help the Girondins and, from there, there was no more Girondine team. So, for the moment, things are going well and I hope that this will continue. Bordeaux has lost only one match since the start of the season. “
It is a match under close surveillance at the Métayer stadium in Bressuire. Bordeaux supporters are prohibited from traveling. The Deux-Sèvres prefecture therefore took orders to establish in particular a security perimeter from 10 a.m. and until 10 p.m. at the stadium and in the town center of Bressuire, facing “potential risks of disturbances to public order“. It was not the meeting of the supporters of the two teams which led to this ban, but rather the tensions between the two formations of Bordeaux supporters, the Ultramarines and the North Gate, who recently made headlines during a brawl between them.
The meeting can be followed live on France 3 NoA from 4:50 p.m. this Sunday, November 17, with comments from former Girondins player, Marius Trésor, accompanied by Freddy Vetault, journalist from France 3 Poitou-Charentes.
