Alterna Stade Poitevin does not want to do anything stupid in Cambrai

Cambrai (Ligue B)
Alterna Stade Poitevin (MSL)

No rest for the brave. After returning from Cannes on Saturday, the Poitevins made a “stopover” at Lawson-Body on Sunday afternoon before leaving on Monday towards the North. From Cannes to Cambrai, the Stadistes will rack up the miles, matches and competitions. “But it’s easier to travel when you win”smiles the Canadian coach who welcomed his charges with music during their Sunday training session. Perhaps to remind them that they played a great collective score at the Palais des Victoires (0-3).

“First of all, congratulations to Cannes, which organized a great party with lots of peopleassures the Poitevin coach who noticed the 3,000 spectators, more than triple the average attendance on the Riviera (803 spectators). When we win, we must always make a good evaluation of the team. The first thing is that we didn't make any mistakes receiving. On offense and on the block, it wasn't bad either. It wasn't just the counterattack but we also knew how to hit the balls to rebuild behind. It's interesting even if in some situations we could have done better. »

The Alterna Stade Poitevin will have the opportunity to rework this from this Tuesday, on the occasion of a 16^e of the Coupe de France final, in Cambrai. Because Dan Lewis is not decided to rotate his squad in the North, despite the little playing time distributed to Tino Hanzic, Tim Peter, Thomas Pujol, Chris Baym, Simon Gill or Maxime Roatta since the start of the season.

No scheduled turnover

“We approach this match like a championship matchassures the North American technician who will offer his players two and a half days of rest at the end of the week since the Alterna SPVB will be exempt during the 11^e MSL day. The standard team will start and if the players perform, there will be no change. » So much the better for the Cambrésian public who should therefore have the opportunity to see Brett Walsh, Franco Massimino, Dusan Nikolic… and especially Earvin Ngapeth at work.

If the double Olympic champion has not yet decided on his future, he will fill the 1,380 seats in the Vanpoulle room this Tuesday. “It’s going to be exceptional”as Cambrésian President Christophe Duriez confided to the Voice of the North. It will be even more so if the Northerners, winners of their first match of the season at home last Saturday against Reims (3-0), live up to the double MVP of the Olympics, who will find Philippe Tuitoga whom he had encountered in Blue.

Dan Lewis does not expect, in any case, any gifts from the current fifth in League B. “They should be aggressive and take a lot of riskshe warns. It may or may not work but you will have to be prepared for it. On paper, this may look like a slightly simpler match. This is why we will have to be even more concentrated. » To avoid doing stupid things in Cambrai. It's easy to write, for the people of Poitevin to do it…

Other matches: Conflans-Andrésy-Jouy (Elite) – Fréjus (League B), Avignon (Elite) – Royan (League B), Grand Nancy (League B) – Ajaccio (League B), Saint-Quentin (League B) – Reims (League B) B), Cannes (MSL) – Nice (MSL), Saint-Jean-d'Illac (Ligue B) – Sète (MSL), Martigues (Ligue B) – Narbonne (MSL).