HBC Nantes will appear very weak this Wednesday (8:45 p.m.) at the German champion Magdeburg, on behalf of the 5th day of the Champions League. For this umpteenth shock in an incredibly tough Group B, coach Grégory Cojean will have to do without his flagship recruit, pivot Nicolas Tournat (calf), and Spanish right winger Kauldi Odriozola (illness). Tournat was injured in the first period on Sunday against Saint-Raphaël (36-29) and will undergo medical examinations this week. His case did not seem to cause great concern to the staff.
Slovenian center-half Rok Ovnicek, who appeared on the match sheet on Sunday after several months of absence (knee), was also exempt from the trip to the 2023 European champion because he became the father of a little girl on Friday . To complete his group, Cojean called on the center of the training center André Wenkegheu Tchambou (20 years old).
Nantes in search of its first away points
Magdeburg is having a difficult start to the campaign, with only one victory and one draw in four days, and lost at home against Kielce (26-27) last Thursday, while Nantes inflicted a correction on Kolstad (44-27 including a record of 25 goals scored in the first half). But the H was in more difficulty away, slapped in Aalborg (38-31) and frustrated at the last second by Szeged (33-32). Third in the standings, Nantes is only one point ahead of Magdeburg and two ahead of the bottom two in the group, Zagreb and Kolstad.
