Malcom is stuck in the middle of a crisis at Bordeaux

Bordeaux endured an awful run either side of Christmas but their young forward has remained a bright spark throughout

By Adam White and Eric Devin for Get French Football News

Goats are becoming a common sight in French football. Two seasons ago Marseille fans held huge pictures of goats aloft at the Vélodrome to mock their team’s abject form. Now the prominent Bordeaux fan website, Girondins4ever, has plastered their Twitter profile with a team of goats dressed in the club’s iconic chevron in response to the unfolding disaster at the Stade Matmut Atlantique. Bordeaux’s 1-0 win at Troyes on Saturday was only their second victory since their demoralising 6-2 thrashing at Paris Saint-Germain in September and it proved, once again, that they could yet be in real danger without Brazilian starlet Malcom.

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