Through Aline Chatel
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Fortunately, Romain L’Hermitte likes to build, otherwise he might find the time long, sometimes. By the time he will coach his eighth match of the season, Saturday, November 20, 2021 in Toulouse, his Caen Basket Calvados counterpart will have already completed 13. Fortunately, also, that the USO Mondeville is not advancing at the cushy pace of its division. “When you win, you buy time to be able to work calmly,” notes the Mondevillais coach. Her team is a Ligue 2 co-leader. They have won six of their first seven games. In a championship where truces are omnipresent, Mondeville has the leisure to appreciate his good start to the season.
Toulouse not so good
After a weekend of rest, before two more by the end of the calendar year, the Mondevillaises resume competition at the other favorite designated for the rise in the Women’s League. “It’s a test, warns Romain L’Hermitte. Toulouse has the particularity, compared to other teams, to have players stamped Women’s League. The Swedish Kalis Loyd is the best known of them. But its 20 points and 9.3 rebounds per game on average did not prevent TMB from suffering two defeats against Strasbourg and Chartres.
I am quite surprised. I thought they were going to dominate head and shoulders. We realize that there is a group of six teams which loses very little (one and two defeats, editor’s note). It’s a very dense championship, we knew, but even more so than in other years.
Pass a course in attack
Difficult winner of the Federal Center in his last match, Mondeville is well aware of the difficulty of the championship despite the excellent results recorded so far. To face Toulouse, it is to play a match with the flavor of the higher level. ” It’s very exciting. It is a test in the sense that there will be a lot of experience in front. Offensively, we are very far from being on point, but our defense will be undermined. “
“You have to sublimate yourself”
By beating Toulouse last season, Mondeville had put an end to his hopes of accession. ” We had a very big game at home. But every time we’re there, we wash ourselves well. Today we undoubtedly have more stability, more experience. But Pto beat Toulouse, you always have to come out of very big games. You have to sublimate yourself, as Chartres did against them. ” The game is worth the candle…
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