Greater Poitiers: 30
Grand Libourne: 30
He returned to the locker room first. With his head lowered and his jaw clenched, Romain Guillard took a few minutes to digest his team’s draw against Grand Libournais.
A draw that looked like a defeat in this duel of extremes between the Poitevin leader and the Gironde red lantern. Not because the Poitevins did not win against a poorly ranked team. More because they let slip a fifth consecutive victory which nevertheless held out their arms to them.
“We have reached our limit in the mental aspect”
They even had it in hand less than ten seconds from the end of this meeting when Romain Cazemajou, the Libourne coach, took a final time out (30-29).
But a loss of ball from Yohan Bourgeuil, a long shot from Guillaume Duvergé and an empty goal from the Griffons, to compensate for the numerical inferiority after the two minutes inflicted on Adrien Tillet, shattered everything (30-30) .
“I have no regrets about the choice to release the goalkeeperexplained Romain Guillard. It’s one ball among many others. Above all, it highlights our lack of lucidity in a complex moment. Even if we had kept it and won by a goal, it would not have changed my reading of the match. » A match that his protégés have never really mastered.
And this, despite the three goal lead taken in the first period (14-11, 22e) or this gap widened at the heart of the second act when Quentin Ducoat deceived Mathieu Merceron in a real Poitevin highlight (27-23, 45e).
One of the few against a solid Libourne team, led by the equally valuable and physical Sacha Bouchillou (7 goals), who never gave up.
“However, there was room to passsummarized Romain Guillard. I can’t say that my players didn’t want to go for this match. But we never knew how to build up the pace and we failed to manage the hot balls, especially at the end. We made a lot of mistakes even though we had the opportunities to make the match much easier. We have reached our limit in the mental aspect, with a lack of serenity, confidence and lucidity. »
As illustrated by Godineau’s numerical inferiorities (56e) a Tillet (59e) at the end of the match, while the Griffons goalkeeper had nevertheless made the necessary save just before against Claire, like his replacement Thibault Bouissier against Changeur a few moments later.
The match then seemed to have gone in favor of the Griffons. Grand Poitiers can blame itself for not having completely changed it…
The sheet
Half time: 17-17.
Referee: MM. Combes and Vergely.
Spectators: 500 environ.
Greater Poitiers: Tillet (14 saves), Bouissier (1) – Long (9 goals), Debray (5), Ducoat (5), Roumier (4), Siha Mbedy Diagne (2), Hérault (2), Bourgeuil (2), Guignier (1).
Greater Libourne: Merceron (10 saves) – Duvergé (8 goals), Bouchillou (7), Changeur (3), Boudin (3), Ronsse (3), Tengatini (2), Claire (2), Poulet (1), Sordel (1 ).
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