Arago de Sète: 3
Alterna Stade Poitevin: 0
Le Barrou being impassable for renovation, it was in the small Maurice-Vié gymnasium that Arago hosted Poitiers on Sunday October 20, 2024, undefeated leader of this new 2024 – 2025 volleyball season.
This match will not go down in history on the visitor’s side because the least we can say is that the Poitevins completely missed this meeting against Sète. Hazardous in reception and unable to recover local attacks…
“A huge slump in the second set”
In the first set, the locals – in the wake of their captain De Léon – took Walsh’s teammates by the throat so much so that they had a 4 point lead (10-6) then increased this lead (16 -11).
But the appearance of Ngapeth at the window destabilized the Arago players who also committed numerous direct errors such as missed serves and out attacks.
So much so that if Nikolic was transparent and moreover released by his coach could not be useful, Byam tried with a lot of good will to get his team back on track.
Point after point, Alterna came back but Arago had its first set point which was erased and Hanzic offered one to his team but Byam missed his throw and Schlienger released two “monster blocks” on Ngapeth to close this first set 28-26 after 37 minutes of play.
Match statistics.
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The second set was a real solo game for the Sétois who manhandled the Poitevin team. “We had a huge slump in the second setlamented Alterna coach Dan Lewis. We were unable to move forward and in this sport when you don’t move forward you inevitably go backwards, especially since the Sète team had a big match.”.
A three-game week
A set that passed like a missile (2-0, 25-14) with a final series serving De Léon who concluded with an ace.
In the 3e set which was going to be the last, we witnessed a duel between the experienced player Ngapeth on the visitor’s side and the very young Schlienger.
The latter compared well with his elder and even managed to gain the upper hand in the final moments of the round, concluded once again for Arago with an ace from behind the fagots (3-0, 31-29). Poitiers did not bring back the slightest point from its long journey. Worse, it was Montpellier which seized the leadership chair all by itself.
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Daniel Lewis (Stade Poitevin coach) : “Our team took too long to get into the match and what’s more, we didn’t play like we usually do. Our point had a lot of difficulty finding the right angles of attack. We missed being efficient in defense.”
Thibaut Thoral (receiver-attacker at Stade Poitevin) : “It was a strange match played in a very small room without the slightest noise. It is true that we are not used to playing in such conditions. We missed the match because there were easy things that we weren’t able to do whereas during the first three matches, we did them with a lot of serenity. This week is a three-game week, we’ll have to bounce back quickly.”
Luc Marquet (Sète coach) : “I asked the players to take our opponents by the throat from the initial whistle. And they did. My players even put Poitiers in difficulty on our services in a sector of the game where we had been disappointing until then but this evening everything went well for us.”
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