Before the trip to Calais, there was still a tiny chance for the LAMVB to save itself by the Play-Downs. This defeat conceded in three rounds this Saturday (3-0) definitively seals the fate of a team that will evolve in National 1 next year, after a galley season.
“The inevitable has happened”admits Ion Dobre, the coach of the Longueau Amiens Métropole Volley-Ball. After the defeat in Calais in three rounds on Saturday, the Picard club can no longer leave its last place in the Play-Downs ranking and is relegated to National 1. “It leaves me a bitter taste to finish like that, but it is the reality of things. We will try to draw conclusions, to do an analysis, on my side, maybe the club will also do it. As I always say, even in defeat, we win something ”try to positivate the technician.
Ion Dobre had prepared for it, this trip to Calais was going to be difficult. His opponent, classified fifth with five more units, had the possibility of definitively ending the hopes of maintaining the LAMVB. “We expected that they start at 100 an hour. This is what they did, we did the round back ”he concedes. The Calaisiennes won the first round with authority. The Longacoissian awakening intervenes in the second round with an advantage of seven points in mid-set (13-6). But the Samarians definitely do not live a season like the others. On the twentieth point of the set, the Yolande Amana Guigolo passer receives a ball in the head, at the level of the eye. She gives way to the young Margot Gadiou, 15 years old, who usually plays with the team evolving in regional.
Again, we had no one else to get on the ground.Ion Dobre, lamvb coach
“Yolande tried to resume his place in the field. We took 11-2 and they won 25-15. Despite the fact that we have these points ahead, we lost this set because there was no change to make. Again, we had no one else to get on the ground. If we won the second set, maybe it was another match ”deplores Ion Dobre, once again helpless. Calais won the third round without really forcing (25-18) and sent the Picard club in National 1.
Even if the fate of the latter is acted with this sporting descent at the lower level, Ion Dobre maintains that the season is not yet finished with the two remaining games of these Play-Downs, certainly without stake. The reception of Nantes this Saturday at the Pellerin gymnasium will be special. It will be the last home meeting of the LAMVB under the orders of Ion Dobre, who will leave the club after the season. Initially scheduled at 8 p.m., the meeting will start at 5.30 p.m. after an agreement between the two clubs was found regarding the schedule.
Elite, Play-Downs, 4th day
Calais-LAMVB: 3-0 (25-18) (25-15) (25-17)
César Willot
Photo credit: Théo Bégler – Gazettesports.fr
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