The meetings follow one another and have been similar lately for Ermine. After three consecutive losses, the Nantes residents can no longer do it. Worse, since February 6, the NBH has recorded ten defeats for two victories, a catastrophic second part of the season.
Officially maintained since last weekend thanks to the defeats of Angers and Evreux, Nantes BH can look forward to next season more calmly but must we already finish the one already started and, above all, try to finish it well.
It’s more the impression of an early vacation that emerges from the NBH
But it could be complicated. For these last two meetings of the year, Laurent Pluvy’s men travel successively to La Rochelle, first in Pro B, and to Vichy, its runner-up. Two opponents who are flying through the championship this season and who are keen to finish their regular season well at home in front of their audience before attacking the play-offs. Without Assane Ndoye on paternity leave, the players from the city of dukes face the best team at home with sixteen matches for sixteen victories in its small but bustling hall of 2,000 Gaston-Neveur spectators. Opposite, the Nantes residents have the worst away record and have still not had any success in 2024 outside their base. A cataclysmic end to the season with one question still remaining: which player will still be from Nantes next season? All at the end of their contract, the club wanted to start negotiations after the fourteenth victory. Still at thirteen since April 9, the NBH has not reached the symbolic bar and will perhaps not reach it by the end of the season.
A victory would therefore be unexpected but nothing is impossible for the Hermine who wishes, according to his words, to respect the Nantes jersey to the end. But lately, it’s more the impression of an early vacation that is emerging from this team.
It’s up to its representatives to prove the opposite.
