Brest suffered, saved by its bar in the first period, by its post at the very end of the second. Effective without being clinical in front of the opposing goal, Brest folded but did not break and ended up leaving Roazhon Park with the victory. Its first before a Champions League match, which arrives on Wednesday in Gelsenkirchen against Shakhtar Donestk. His second away in Ligue 1 this season, the second in a few months in Rennes after the memorable 5-4 in April.
That of Saturday evening did not reach the heights of dramaturgy and emotions of last spring, even if the Brest supporters once again sang that they were at home in Ille-et-Vilaine after a derby overall average.
This success of Brest is not the most beautiful, not the most dazzling but perhaps not far from being the most valorous and the most imbued with solidarity at the heart of a Dantesque series of encounters. Deprived of many players, forced to start the right-hander Luck Zogbé (19 years old) as left back, forced to make the trip with five youngsters with zero professional minutes on the bench, Éric Roy nevertheless saw his team achieve two successes immediately in L1. Also a first this season.
Roy : « On se replace »
Thanks to this success, which follows that of Lyon’s convincing victory a week ago at Le Blé, Stade Brestois regains a warm place in the ranking, nine points from the play-off position while awaiting the last matches this Sunday. Two weeks ago, the Angevin defeat had worried the commitment presented by some but the Brest coach found in Rennes “the values of resilience which are dear to us with a somewhat decimated workforce”.
Even if he “regrets” this goal conceded at the end of the game by Ludovic Blas (77′) while Hugo Magnetti with a dry strike at the entrance to the area (27′), then Ludovic Ajorque at the end of a school movement (73′), had put Brest on the right track. But Brest, which looked more downward two weeks ago, is once again raising its eyes upwards.
-“With this victory, we are back on track,” confirms Roy. When you are 5-6 points from the European places, you tell yourself that you are still in the race. We want to exist in this Ligue 1, and it is not because we play in two other tables that we must abandon the championship.
“35-37 points to maintain”
“We know that it will take 35-37 points to maintain, we are at 25,” assures Hugo Magnetti. We still have a little way to go.” “It feels good to win away from home again,” breathes Brendan Chardonnet. We are a team with heart, we have shown in the past that we can also be in the fight in big matches. We would like to control our matches more but we take what we can take and sometimes we have to stick together to achieve victory. We’re moving up gradually, we don’t know where we’re going to go, we haven’t really set any goals but we’re moving forward. We have never set limits for ourselves, we are not going to do that now.” Brest, the (great) leap forward.
Morocco
Related News :