Our prediction for this Coupe de la Ligue match:
Brest
Match Time & Date:
18/12/2019
03:05 PM
Prediction: 1-1
Bordeaux
A spot in the Coupe de la Ligue quarter-finals will be at stake when Brest and Bordeaux take on each other at Stade Francis-Le Ble on Wednesday evening. Olivier Dall’Oglio’s troops failed to find the net in the previous two league fixtures, meaning that the lack of confidence could prove to be the team’s biggest problem in the Coupe de la Ligue games. Les Girondins, on the other hand, aim to make amends for back-to-back losses to the likes of Olympique Marseille and Strasbourg.
Bordeaux have been having their ups and downs in the 2019/2020 Ligue 1 season, but they are surely capable of matching Brest at Stade Francis-Le Ble. When the two teams met in the national championship earlier this term they played out a 2-2 draw, which is yet another reason why the share of spoils is on the horizon.
Highlighted Player (Paul Lasne):
Paul Lasne is a product of Bordeaux football academy, but he did not play for les Girondins at senior level. After ending his loan spell with Chateauroux Lasne signed a loan deal with Ajaccio in 2010 and he proved his worth in the 2010/2011 Ligue 2 campaign.
As a result, he was offered a permanent deal by the club chiefs and it has to be noted that he played for Corsican side from 2011 to 2014. After scoring four goals in 89 appearances in the league for Ajaccio, the 186-cm-tall midfielder joined Montpellier in the summer of 2014, signing a four-year contract with La Paillade.
Paul Lasne scored three goals for Montpellier, while providing two assists for his teammates in the 2016/2017 Ligue 1 campaign. Despite being left-footed, his main position is right midfield, but he is used as both central and defensive midfielder as well. The Montpellier footballer was born in Saint-Cloud, France on January 16, 1989 and his agent is Henri Zambelli.
Highlighted Team (Bordeaux):
Founded in 1881, Bordeaux are regarded as one of the oldest clubs in France. Les Girondins won their first Ligue 1 trophy in 1950 and 59 years later (2008/2009) they lifted their sixth domestic trophy.
Speaking of the club’s European success, Bordeaux did remarkably well to make it to the Champions League semi-finals in 1985, but despite recording a 2-0 win over star-studded Juventus in the return leg, the French club eventually failed to book their place in the final of the elite competition.
Famous French footballers Alain Giresse and Jean Tigana were part of the team back then and it has to be noted that Giresse is the player who made the most appearances for les Girondins (587). During the nineties Zinedine Zidane, Christophe Dugarry and Bixente Lizarazu played for Bordeaux and, taking everything into account, it is no surprise they are considered one of the most famous French clubs.
Nowadays Les Girondins welcome their rivals at Matmut Atlantique, the stadium which was opened in 2015 and they used to play at Stade Chaban-Delmas in the past.
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