The Chartrains started their week well by winning in an authoritarian way on the floor of the N1 of Rennes (51-69), Tuesday, in the Coupe de France. Three days after this success, the championship awaits them, with a trip this evening to Besançon. A Doubs team that coach Sébastien Lambert is wary of.
Renewed at 70% in the offseason, Chartres is attacking its championship in Franche-Comté against a formation transformed at 60% and which has rebuilt its entire interior sector. “It’s a complicated match that awaits us in Besançon. They will have the pressure to start well at home, ”concedes the coach of the CCBM who was able to turn his workforce in the cup. But, he will always be handicapped by the absence of the pivot Valentin Mukuna. “It’s a bone problem in the foot and we don’t know how long it will be down. It’s more complicated to know that if it was muscular… ”
Besançon ahead of its preparation
In the racket, Sébastien Lambert will rely on the 4 positions, the Spaniard Federico Ucles and the ex-Avignonnais Mounir Bernaoui, and his pivot and captain Patrick Clerence.
Besançon, who is entering his fourth season in N1, has so far finished in the second part of the table (9th then twice 11th) but is approaching this new exercise with a lot of confidence, as evidenced by his coach, Nicolas Faure: “During In preparation, we only experienced very few physical problems unlike in the other seasons. We are, in comparative periods, much further ahead than we were the three previous years. We have recovered a defensive cohesion which seems to be confirmed over time, meeting after meeting… So it remains rather interesting ”. Besançon ended its preparation with five successes (out of 7 matches) before making life difficult for a Top 5 contender, Andrézieux (75-68), on Tuesday, in the Cup.
Presentation of the CCBM N1 season
Having recovered the Lithuanian leader Dovydas Rodikas (ex-Kaysersberg), BesAC can also rely on two former players passed by Aurore Vitré, winger Tom Foucault and Serbian post 4, Sreten Knezevic (no family relationship with Franco-Serbian winger Nikola Knezevic). A Yougo that Yann Siegwarth knows well for having played together at the Aurore during the 2016-2017 season.
BESANÇON (Doubs), Friday September 24 at 8:30 p.m.
Besancon: Vitale-Boiteux, Redikas (Lit), Foucault, Mareschal (?), Huger, N. Knezevic, S. Knezevic (Ser), Valayer (?), Laporal, Tonji.
CCBM : Siegwarth, Thalien, Bouloukouet, Doumbia, Green (US), Bekoulé-Ekambi, Ucles (Esp), Bernaoui, Clerence.
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Jean-André Provost
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