This may be the last time – unless they meet again in the play-offs – that the two clubs will face each other at the Palais des sports Danrémont tonight. Because a few days ago, the president of the Star of Portel (ESSM), boarding club of the elite, evoked a rapprochement between the two entities of Boulonnais, only five kilometers apart. “We will have to find a solution to unite our forces otherwise we are going to disaster”, had launched at the beginning of January Yann Rivoal, the number 1 of the stellist club, last of Betclic Élite.
Chartres lost in the first leg against Boulogne
As for the Stade Olympique Maritime Boulonnais, which changed its president last September, the time is not necessarily for a merger, but rather to fight to regain a place in the foreground. In ProA six years ago, descended from ProB in 2017, semi-finalist of N1 twice (2018 and 2019), the SOMB has since lost its luster. Eighth in the last exercise, the yellow and black club, with unhidden ambitions at the start of the season, is far from its objectives and, at present, six points behind its evening opponent, Chartres, whom it had dominated in the first leg (82-87).
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SOMB humiliated by Insep
By losing to Pont-de-Chéruy (75-72) this weekend, the men of Thibault Wolicki have further mortgaged their chance of appearing in the fifth after the first phase. Even if they have two matches behind (at Orchies and at home against Andrézieux). A success against Chartres would leave them with a small hope of keeping in touch with the lead, a setback would keep them away definitively.
“We know what is at stake in the match for them. Now, we are going to try not to put them back in the race and try to keep our rank and continue to perform outside, “says CCBM coach Sébastien Lambert, who admits that his team is more comfortable. outside, evidenced by his successes in Le Havre, Lyon or even last week at the leader Caen (86-93). The SOMB, capable of imposing itself with the big teams of the N1 (Le Havre, Andrézieux and Chartres), has, however, left a few feathers at home as against Avignon, Pont-de-Chéruy or, more surprisingly, against the kids from Insep (69-72). Will Chartres be the fifth club of the season to win on this Côte d’Opale floor? In any case, he has the skills.
* If Chartres wins in Boulogne, it will be five successes in a row with the one against Orchies just before the Christmas break.
Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), this Tuesday, January 25 at 8 p.m.
SOMB: Gountas, Castard, Var, Davis (US), Flosse, Odiakosa (NIG), Weber, Desespringalle, Ngabonziza, Der.
CCBM : Thalien, Ucles, Doumbia, Siegwarth, Bernaoui, Mekdad, Békoulé Ekambi, Sencanski (SER), Mukuna, Clerence.
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Jean-Andre Provost
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