Soccer. Another match postponed, Tourlaville faced with a “totally crazy schedule”

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Opposed to the Granville reserve, Tourlaville surrendered on Sunday December 15, 2024 in the South Channel on behalf of the 10^e daytime of Regional 2but upon arriving there, Matthieu Travers and his players have discovered clearly impassable terrain.

The conclusion is irrevocable: return home without playing.

« The referees made the right decision, but what I would have liked is to have an exceptional decree from the municipality de Granville and us avoid travel. I also think that there was a way to place a second match on Louis Dioras we can see elsewhere, but that’s how it is…” confides Matthieu Travers, quite annoyed by the turn of his weekend.

“I find it penalizing to have gone too far in the Coupe de France”

After this umpteenth postponement, Tourlaville now has three games late compared to his adversarieswhich gives a busy calendar from 2025before a final match at Thaon (Calvados) on Saturday December 21.

An opponent that Tourlaville will meet three times in a row, between the cup and the championship.

From January 11, we resume with the Normandy Cup and until February 16, all weekends are blocked! If we qualify for the cup, we don’t know when we will play against Granville, because potentially, there is no more availability before the beginning of March… The schedule is totally crazy and the players will have no rest after the holidays.

If Cédric Titaux’s club is experiencing this unique situation, it owes it in part to its run in the Coupe de France. But with all these postponed matches, the visibility in the ranking is going to get complicated.

“The calendar is inconsistent and the fact that we went to 6^e Coupe de France round penalizes us. Potentially we will have fewer pointsso it’s difficult to position yourself in this championship. In fact, I am disgusted and I find it penalizing to have gone too far in the Coupe de France,” shares the former Cherbourg mahout with bitterness.

Also fatalistic, Matthieu Travers will have to deal with a program that promises to be busy for 2025.

From our correspondent Florian BILLARD

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