“We often shot ourselves in the foot”: Stade Brestois weighed down by its failed starts in Ligue 1

Auxerre (3-0), Montpellier (3-1) and now Angers (2-0): the Brest bill, facing competitors announced for maintenance, is starting to get tougher. “During all these matches, we often shot ourselves in the foot,” grumbled Éric Roy after his team’s new setback.

On Sunday, the Angevins were able to benefit, like four other Brest opponents before them, from a goal scored in the first ten minutes of play. “I don’t know how to explain it,” regrets Hugo Magnetti. We are a team that has always been motivated from the warm-up, we say things to each other. »

Sixteen points gleaned from being behind last season

A premature handicap that the Rouge et Blanc have so far never been able to overcome: Stade Brestois is the only team in Ligue 1 to have not taken a point once behind, in eight appearances. Last season, Pierre Lees-Melou and his teammates scored sixteen (4 wins, 4 draws, 6 losses), in fourteen matches having to lap behind their opponent.

“You have to be more concentrated, more alert in the match,” suggested Magnetti to avoid chasing the score. It’s up to the eleven players, not just the defenders and defensive players, to put more pressure and intensity. » “We must continue to work,” repeated Edimilson Fernandes, so that an opening score is no longer prohibitive.

However, what remains in the collective memory is the draw against Leverkusen at the end of October (1-1), where the goal scored by Wirtz could well have sounded the death knell for Brest in this third European meeting. Would the Finisterians suffer from a lack of pride in the championship? After sixteen days, the question deserves to be asked.