Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Friday October 11, 2024 at 10:04 p.m.
Third match and third victory for Montpellier who left no chance (25-23, 25-20, 25-23) in Paris for the first outing of the Parisians at home, Friday evening in an advanced match of the 3rd day of Marmara SpikeLigue . The Montpellier residents, still undefeated, are back in control of the rankings.
The experience of Montpellier got the better of the youth and lack of experience (as well as automatisms) of Paris. Friday evening in the advanced match of the 3rd day of Marmara SpikeLigue, the Montpellier residents clearly outclassed the Parisians (25-23, 25-20, 25-23), who were playing their first match of the season in front of their home crowd. The Héraultais, who had already corrected Tours at the opening of the championship before confirming, admittedly much more difficult (tie-break victory) during the 2nd day, at home against Nice, thus continue their flawless performance with a third victory in three matches which allows them to take control of the ranking while awaiting the result of Poitiers and its superstar Earvin Ngapeth, who will host Saint-Nazaire, the reigning champion, on Saturday evening in a shock which will once again be played behind closed doors . “We knew that this year, we had a much younger team and that we had made bets on youth, but for the moment, it is not paying off,” regretted Parisian coach Nikola Matisajevic after this second defeat, who cursed in particular at the microphone of beIN Sports the many mistakes made by his players in this game.
Montpellier a tone above
Errors galore (nearly ten per set) as well as a lack of aggressiveness in blocking which did not prevent the players from the capital from being very close to coming back to their level in the first set and especially from strongly jostle their opponents in the third set. Unfortunately for Paris, even the three points lead that they still had as the round drew to a close did not prevent this Montpellier team from winning its four matches in all competitions (Editor’s note: It did not did not achieve the full score nevertheless, with eight points taken out of nine possible) to confirm its domination with a clear score at the finish. A new demonstration which owes in particular to Dimitar Dimitrov and Ezequiel Palacios. The sharp Bulgarian, author of 15 points and 3 aces, was logically MVP of this match. The Argentine receiver-attacker was not left out, with 13 points scored.
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