Continuation of the 19th day in Lidl Starligue, this Sunday. Conqueror, Saint-Raphaël logically wins on the ground of Aix 28-26. Led a good part of the meeting, Chartres takes the lead late in the game to win 29-28
In Aix, the match began with a minute of silence following the death of Thomas Lacelle, professional rugby player in the neighboring Provence Rugby club. In this beginning of confrontation, it is the Raphaëlois who start best. They make good use of the opposing 2 minutes and their effectiveness in attack to take a 3-goal lead (1-4, 5 ′). Aix has several occasions to return to a goal but negotiates badly the shots with some loss of ball. The visitors take the opportunity to gain distance from their opponents (4-7, 13 ′). Mihai Popescu is imperial with 2 saves while his team has one player less. Xavier Barachet concludes the next action and increases the gap (5-9, 16 ′). After more than 4 minutes without a goal between the 2 teams, Aleksa Kolakovic finds the way of the nets. He gives the Var 4 steps ahead (9-13, 25 ′). On a last throw of 7 meters, Matthieu Ong allows the PAUC to return to the locker rooms with a less important delay (12-14, MT)
Change of goalkeeper at break for Aix en Provence with the entry of Kalim Zaha who played his first minutes in Lidl Starligue, at 18 years old. If he was able to show himself with 2 saves in these first 10 minutes, Saint-Raph ‘ continues its march forward with a new advantage of +4 on the scoreboard (16-20, 40 ′). The teammates of Nicolas Claire have an average game with many hiccups on simple things. Those ofAdrien Dipanda make the opposition it takes to take 6 goals in advance, bigger gap so far (19-25, 47 ′). With his 9th achievement of the meeting, Claire trying to re-mobilize the troops. Rares Fortuneanu poses the time-out in favor of Saint-Raphaël, who sees his opponent come back to 2 short lengths then only one following the new goal of Claire (25-26, 55 ′). End of unbreathable meeting between the 2 teams. Popescu will have been decisive in the money-time with in particular a stop on jet of 7 meters. Arthur Vigneron completes the job for a 28-26 final victory.
2 in a row for Chartres
Photo credit: Panoramic / K. Domas
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After winning in Aix, the Chartres Handball Métropole followed up a second consecutive victory with a score of 29-28 against Istres. And yet, it was far from being won in advance. The start of the match was balanced before the visitors took a +3 lead thanks to the goal ofAndrea Parisini (5-8, 13′). Chartres rebels by inflicting a 5-0 in 6 minutes and regains the advantage (10-8, 19 ′). Until the break, the two teams give in blow for blow. It is finally Istres who takes the advantage before returning to the locker room following the successful shoot from Pablo Marrochi (14-15, M-T).
The second half started well for the Chartrains. They register a 5-2 to find 2 lengths of difference. Vanja Ilic is decisive with 4 goals in 8 goals at the start of the second act, 11/11 over the whole meeting (19-17, 38 ′). The Istreans cling to and glue back to the evening’s adversary. They post a goal ahead of the scoreboard thanks to the achievement ofHichem Daoud (20-21, 43 ′). Chartres and Istres are back to back but the visitors take the second to have a +3 advantage less than 5 minutes from time (25-28, 56 ′). The Euréliens will hang in this money-time. They come back to score and take advantage of 2 × 2 opposing minutes in less than a minute. 1 minute from term, Svetlin Dimitrov, author of an 8/9 on this match, delivers the premises by scoring the last goal of the meeting, for a victory 29/28.
Riotte Alexandre
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