They don’t want to come down from their cloud. Second in the Champions League after two days and two convincing victories, the Brestois are living a waking dream. Just like their supporters, who still struggle to believe it. “I hoped that it wouldn’t go too badly, but I would never have bet on it,” singer Miossec, a big fan of the Breton club, confided to us. It’s science fiction, it’s historical. »
But Eric Roy’s men are sure of their strength. Despite a checkered start to the season in Ligue 1 (11th), the Bretons are riding on an almost insolent confidence. “We’re a bit like last season, we let ourselves be carried away and we enjoy it,” rejoiced Mathias Perreira-Lage after Stade Brestois‘ second success, against Salzburg (4-0). “What we experienced last year is not trivial, but it is not something that fell from the sky,” said Éric Roy. That means that this team has something extra, it has a state of mind. »
Leverkusen sans Victor Boniface ?
This Wednesday, against Bayer Leverkusen, the Brestois will really need this state of mind. Because if the Germans are performing slightly less well this season, with a first defeat in the Bundesliga in more than a year, against Leipzig (2-3), they still had a big success in the Champions League, with a big victory at Feyenoord (0-4) and a narrower success against AC Milan (1-0), thanks to their home scorer Victor Boniface.
Good news for Brest, the Nigerian will be absent this Wednesday. Victim of a minor road accident on Sunday morning, the striker injured his left hand and did not participate in the last training session, 24 hours before the match. “Victor has small cuts on his foot and hand,” explained Xabi Alonso. In a way, he was very lucky. But he hasn’t trained normally since and we’re going to give him a few days to recover from this emotional shock. »
Bayer Leverkusen will despite everything be the first big piece of Stade Brestois’ first European campaign. With Florian Wirtz, Granit “We will have to continue to progress because the next opponents will be of even higher quality. Obviously, we will have to improve,” Roy conceded last Saturday after the draw between his team and Rennes (1-1).
