Meudon (D1) won at the Baron ice rink, 11 goals to 4. Logically.
For the Foxes, the Orléans hockey players, the Coupe de France was as much out of the ordinary, this Saturday, September 28, as it entered the preparation phase for the Division 2 championship.
Against Meudon, a D1 team, the Orléans team logically lost (4-11), Saturday evening, in a once again busy Baron ice rink (700 spectators), but it also reassured itself, one week away from entering the championship in Dijon; another promoted. “We’re going to do a performance,” warns Gilbert Ledigarcher.
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Although his Foxes shot three times less on goal than the opponent (20 shots against 66), the manager of the Orléans club was satisfied with the behavior of his squad. “There is the desire to do well. And defensively, we worked well.”
Still waiting for the foreign coach
Trailing 0-2, then 1-3, the Foxes came back in the second third (3-4), with two goals from Damir Shafeev. According to Gilbert Ledigarcher, the Russian striker (three goals in the end) “had his best game since he was in France”.
If the Orléanais “faltered a little”, subsequently, due to fewer rotations and more fatigue, “the result is very encouraging”, noted Gilbert Ledigarcher, for his part required to play extra time. The foreign coach with whom the club has reached an agreement is in fact stuck in his country, waiting for a visa…
Pascal Bourgeais
