Nadia Offendal (Paris 92) / Photo credit: Panoramic / K. Domas
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The two French teams engaged in European League today have emerged, thanks above all to good collective performances. Facing the Turks of Kastamonu, Nantes took his first two points, and very nicely. Thanks to a great start, they were already seven goals ahead in the eleventh minute, and were able to control the rest of the game. While his team was eight lengths ahead at the break, Guillaume Saurina was able to turn his squad, eleven players scoring at least one goal. It was the Danish Lotte Grigel who finished her team’s top scorer, with seven goals. Winner 35:26 in the end, Nantes took its first points in the group stage and repositioned itself in the race for qualification.
In the shock of the day, Paris dominated the Danes of Herning-Ikast (26:23). “To counter this team, you needed heads and legs. There was, defensively, very little difference between what we wanted to do and what we produced. In defense, we were incredible ” smiled coach Yacine Messaoudi at the end of the meeting. And the Parisian coach had something to be happy about. Mistreated in the first moments of the meeting, his daughters turned the tide at the end of the first act, in particular thanks to a Nadia Offendal mounted on springs. With her seven goals, the Dane led her teammates to victory. And if Herning is a time returned to a length in the second half, but Paris did not panic, to finally get carried away by three lengths. Paris 92 is now alone at the top of its group with four points, before receiving the Russians from Zvezda, red lantern, next week.
Kevin Domas
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