The Chartrains attack the play-offs in Cergy-Pontoise

However, for a long time, we thought it would be Lyon. But by avoiding being “fanny” in the second phase, the Chartrains jumped two ranks to “snatch” 7th place and offer themselves a short trip to the round of 16, but a gargantuan bottom of the table with a possible fight against in Lorient in quarter and the ogre of Le Havre in half.

“Another championship that begins”

Some clubs, like Caen, did not appreciate that the late match of the 6th day Chartres-Poitiers, was played at the end of the upper hen (10th day). Well Named. Chartres did not calculate and, by winning against PB86, therefore sent the Caennais, as they secretly hoped, to the other part of the play-off table.

Chartres could therefore have calculated to avoid a client from the intermediate group in a much more positive dynamic – Cergy won six of its ten matches in the second phase. But Sébastien Lambert was finally able to smile again. “Against Poitiers, we managed to break the spiral of defeats, despite still many absentees (Siegwarth, Mekdad and Mukuna). We will try to surf on this revival in a phase where all the teams are starting from scratch. The play-offs is another championship that begins. »

Sébastien Lambert and the Men’s C’Chartres Basket, it’s over!

Even if Sébastien Lambert, who has just announced his departure from the club at the end of the season, admits that his team will not start as favorites in this eighth round, he nevertheless hopes to close the deal in two matches. “It would be good to avoid playing maybe twice in twenty-four hours…”

The C’Chartres BM has requested that the 8th return be brought forward to Thursday because, on Friday, the Jean-Cochet hall is occupied by the Chartres handball players who will receive Istres in the Starligue. Otherwise, it will be Saturday (will of Cergy), before a possible “beautiful”, in the event of a tie, on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. We therefore understand why the Chartrains want to settle their first round of play-offs quickly. This would also allow the CCBM to gain a few days of recovery before its quarter-final.

Cergy has big CVs

What are these Spartans – the name of the Val-d’Oisien club – really worth? It will not be necessary to rely on the pre-season victory of the CCBM which had largely imposed itself (50-71) at the Miradas gymnasium. “It was a preparation match and Cergy did not have its American leader,” says Sébastien Lambert. This US leader, Vincent Shahid, is quite simply the man-orchestra of the CPBB, best scorer (21.4 pts) and passer (4.1) of the club and, if it is necessary to add a line, MVP of the N1 ( 19.3 rating in 33 matches).

But Cergy’s assets do not rest solely on its American. On position 3, the CPBB has experience to spare with Mamadou Sy (36), passed by Saint-Vallier, Brissac and Tarbes, and Antoine Mendy (38) who has ten seasons in the elite (Reims, Pau-Orthez, Dijon, Orleans, Bourg-en-Bresse). At the pivotal position, there is also work with Mohamed Koné, from the height of his 41 “brooms” and his experiences in Spain, Turkey and LNB (Chalon and Roanne in ProA, Aix-Maurienne, Le Portel and Vichy in ProB).

Faced with this physical team, but which has often folded in the face of the big ones – eight defeats against the Top 5 of its pool – Chartres, without Mounir Bernaoui (calf), out until the end of the season, but perhaps with the return of his metronome Yann Siegwarth, will try to win this first round this afternoon.
Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), today at 4 p.m.