It was only a snapshot before the start of the matches at 9 p.m., but the image of this ranking of the 36-team Champions League with Stade Brestois in first place was worth a lot. And if Borussia Dortmund stole this place of honor from them two hours later after having destroyed Celtic Glasgow (7-1), the Brestois can be damn proud of their start to their career in C1.
After beating Sturm Graz in the opener, this time they defeated RB Salzburg, in Austria. A 4-0 victory, clear and flawless, at the end of a match which certainly could have gone differently in the first period but which the Bretons knew how to fold with astonishing mastery for rookies.
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“We let ourselves be carried away and enjoy it,” reacted after the match Mathias Perreira-Lage, scorer of the fourth goal a few seconds after coming into play. Coach Eric Roy, for his part, evokes a “dream debut”, which he does not would never have dared to imagine.
With six points on the clock, Brest is in the race to qualify at least for the play-offs for the round of 16 of this C1, which should be played out at 9 or 10 points. This victory is “a bigger step than if we had zero points, two points or even three […] but it’s only a small step,” Eric Roy nevertheless tempered.
“Often the last steps are the hardest, as they say. And then I think that adversity will also increase,” he continued, while Brest must still host Leverkusen and Real Madrid or travel to Barcelona. But the matches in Prague against Donetsk or at home against PSV Eindhoven no longer seem to have anything insurmountable for this astonishing team, for whom the worst was predicted in the big leagues.
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But it’s not yet time to talk about dams, anyway. Now is the time to savor this real performance, achieved on the pitch of a team much more seasoned in European games. It was “an evening where we were expected. We had seen a little of the words of the opposing coach, who said that we were a duel team that played a lot on long balls,” recalled Perreira-Lage.
But the Brestois didn’t just do that, and after letting the storm pass – thanks to a solid Marco Bizot in the goals – they crushed their opponents thanks to counterplays played to perfection, concluded with a double of Sima and an opportunistic strike from Camara. Next meeting, October 23 in Guingamp, against Bayer Leverkusen. A great match, a poster, for which the Roudoudou will be far too small to accommodate all those who would like to see it.
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