Aurélien CANOT, published on Friday February 19, 2021 at 11:07 p.m.
Traveling to Tourcoing on Friday, Montpellier left the Northerners no chance. The leader thus pursues his rider alone at the top of the classification. After ten defeats in a row, Nice won against Chaumont.
This Montpellier team is unstoppable. Without mercy for Tourcoing (3-0: 25-21, 26-24, 25-19) Friday in the North in the shock of the 21st day of Men’s League A, the untouchable leader of the championship continued his lone rider at the head of the ranking and further consolidated its first place, with now twelve points ahead of its runner-up RC Cannes before the arrival of Sète, 12th, on the Cannes floor on Saturday evening (18h00) during the continuation of this 21st day. Carried in particular on Friday by its explosive receptionist Argentinian international striker Ezequiel Palacios, author of 11 points against the 3rd in the standings, the Montpellier Castelnau Volley UC put down its paw from the outset on this top match against Tourquennois who had lost only two games at home since the start of the season, against Cannes and Paris. Despite the absence of their supporters (this meeting took place behind closed doors), the premises and their inevitable central shock Daryl Bultor immediately reacted. They even gave the leader a little lesson at the start of the second set. But even led 10-3, Montpellier found the resources, especially mental, to turn the situation around and make a break, certainly in pain.
Nice, eleven games later
All that remained for the MCVUC then was to finish the work facing opponents stunned by the scenario of this second round. The Héraultais, who chained a fourth victory on Friday, had no trouble doing so. Thanks in particular to Danny Demyanenko and Nicolas Mendez, both authors of 10 points, the third set was practically only a formality again for the first in the standings. Nantes, penultimate and next team to stand in the way of the leader, is warned. In the other game of the evening, Nice ended a series of ten consecutive defeats by winning at home in the tie-break (34-36, 25-22, 25-21, 21-25, 15-13) against Chaumont at the end of a pretty crazy match who first saw the twelfth in the standings lose the first set … 36 to 34 then win the next two sets. The Niçois were finally forced to play a fifth set, which they won as well as the match against Haut-Marnais, thus taking their revenge after the 3-set-to-1 defeat on October 31. What a relief !
VOLLEY – A (H) LEAGUE / 21ST DAY
Friday 19 February 2021
Tourcoing – Montpellier : 0-3 (21-25, 24-26, 19-25)
Nice – Chaumont : 3-2 (34-36, 25-22, 25-21, 21-25, 15-13)
Saturday 20 February 2021
18h00: RC Cannes – Sète
6:00 p.m .: Nantes – Poitiers
6:00 p.m .: Narbonne – Ajaccio
8:00 p.m .: Cambrai – Tours
8:00 p.m .: Paris – Toulouse
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