If they win on Wednesday against Sparta, Stade Brestois can secure their place among the top 24 teams in the Champions League. After only 4 matches out of 8, and in their very first participation in this prestigious competition, achieving such a feat would be monumental.
A supercomputer has confirmed that 10 points will be sufficient in 99% of cases to continue the journey in the Champions League. In light of this unprecedented competition format, football statistician Opta has simulated 50,000 scenarios. According to this artificial intelligence, Stade Brestois 29 is just one victory away from unlocking the door to the play-offs in February and perhaps dreaming even bigger.
With a powerful start (2 wins, 1 draw), the Finistère club has the chance to make a significant impact on Wednesday on the pitch of Sparta Prague, the longest trip in their history. However, the time for calculations has not yet arrived. “It’s not a final,” asserted coach Eric Roy and midfielder Mahdi Camara in unison during the press conference at the Epet Stadium on Tuesday evening. The coach prefers to focus on the game: “If the performance is there, the result will follow. What’s important is to keep progressing in this competition and achieve a good result. Now, even if it’s a draw, it won’t guarantee our qualification but it would still be a very good result to leave here unbeaten.” Especially with a daunting trip to Barcelona on the horizon in three weeks…
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Securing qualification halfway through the group stage is something the Brestois are certainly thinking about, albeit not vocalizing it too much. “Of course, we are confident with the performances we’ve put in this competition so far,” says Mahdi Camara. “But we need to take this match very seriously; we’ll try to put in all the necessary ingredients to leave with points.”
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Unfortunately, the Brest team will be without their top European scorer Abdallah Sima (3 goals in 224 minutes), whose hamstring injury has not yet healed.
In the damp cold of Prague, the Ty Zefs must avoid being caught off guard by a vengeful Czech team, which has only won 2 of their last 8 matches but still sits on 4 points in the Champions League. Eric Roy is wary: “We know it will be a complicated match; it’s a great team in Europe because they are far more accustomed than us to playing European matches. So we come with a lot of humility but, of course, with the desire to perform very well.”
The locals are slightly favored according to bookmakers, which perfectly suits the Pirates, who love to defy predictions. Their results in this new European stage, no computer can predict.
