the essential
After Tours eight days ago, the Toros are facing a new leader of the championship. Expected feat.
> The attack on Lorient
The STB NM1 pool, with five of the 14 teams that make it up located on its territory (Lorient, Quimper, Fougères, Vitré and Rennes), smells of Brittany. During the first phase the ranking therefore has a strong chance of being punctuated by the results of the derbies.
The result of last week between Lorient and Fougères (91-96) demonstrated that we should expect to record many surprise results. After this defeat at home, Lorient gave up its leading position in Quimper. Currently second, at the top of a group of 5 with two wins and one loss, the Morbihan team has the best attack in the group (89.7 points on average) and the best evaluation in the division (110 per match! ).
To win against Matthieu Robin, Adrien Sclear and their teammates, the Toros will have to first defend before thinking about shining in attack against a defense that could be improved (7th in the group in points conceded).
> Laurent Mopsus’ pre-match
“Lorient is a team that plays with a lot of intensity. Pascal Thibaud brought his philosophy there with a lot of restarts, a lot of defensive intensity, first-intention play, decisive passes. It’s going to be a real challenge For us, we have to continue our momentum, namely to improve our defense, there are adjustments to be made, and if we share the ball as we did in the last match we will find some skill. .
Zone defense against Tours? It was exceptional because Tours is very large in size. As a coach, this is the first time I used the zone for 40 minutes. Lorient is much more intense. We’ll see. If we manage to play like we did against Tours, with a much more aggressive defense, we will have reached a milestone. This is our challenge.”
