Dan Lewis was not heard … While he was enjoying and celebrated, as he should, the qualification for the final, Friday evening, after the victory against Chaumont (3-0), the coach of the Alterna Stade Poitevin had an intuition in the form of revenge after the two corrections inflicted by Montpellier to his team this season: his group was going to meet the MHSC-VB to win the title of French champion. The rest of its premonition will remain secret but in any case it will not be realized.
Beaten in Grenon on Friday (2-3), the Tourangeaux gave the Canadian technician wrong to win a second time in Castelnau-le-Lez after match 1 (0-3), yesterday, during the semi-finals support match (2-3). By being very solid to recover from the loss of the first and third sets (25-23, 25-19). The TVB found the resources to equalize each time (27-29, 22-25) and switch the tie-break (13-15), thanks in particular to the entrance to a decisive Roland Gergye at the end of the match (9 attacks at 69 % efficiency, 1 ACE, 1 against winning). The strength of the habit may be for this club which will compete in its fourth consecutive final.
“It’s going to be a thunder game”
It will be the first, on the other hand, for the Poitevin club since that disputed and lost in 2012 … Faced with the TVB. But it will not be a question of past during this derby. Whether it is distant or close since if the Alterna SPVB won the first two duels this season this season, in Grenon (1-3) and at the Arena Futuroscope (3-2), the two teams have little to do with those who were on the field on October 25 and December 27. The TVB saw Egleskalns leaving along the way and Strehlau as Voss have made a place on the ground while the Alterna SPVB no longer counts in its ranks neither Nikolic, nor Vucicevic nor a certain Earvin NgaPeth who had hurt his former club in the outward journey. But even without the double Olympic champion, which should be present in the return match in the grandstands of Grenon, this duel promises. And it will start on Saturday in the boiling atmosphere of Lawson-Body.
“It’s going to be a thunder gameassured the old Poitevin, Luca Ramon, at the microphone of BeIN Sports. There will be a crazy atmosphere whether in Lawson or Grenon. We will have to be mentally ready and that we manage to find communication strategies because I do not think that we get along a lot on the field. It will be a tough fight against a team that has nothing to do with that of Montpellier in terms of characteristics. It is much more defensive with a major player that we no longer present. We will try to find a parade to this sacred Mujanovic. »» Who will wear the Tourangelles colors next season, as the TVB formalized it last Monday. This final is already launched …
