The players of C’Chartres Basket Féminin must recover, this Saturday evening, against Mondeville

Below the objectives of the start of the season. If this underperformance conceals a multitude of explanations, – the fatigue accumulated during the first ten days or the detection of repeated cases of Covid-19 within the staff and the players since the beginning of December -, the figures are implacable. The Chartraines, examples of self-sacrifice during the first quarter of the championship, faltered in the second, compiling four losses in the last five meetings. The opposite of the six successes gleaned during the first seven rounds.

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The Chartraines bow to Calais

And as the statistics never lie in basketball, no more than the visual impression left by the Chartraines for two months: the observation is clear. Defensively, the CCBF is no longer there, with 78 points conceded on average over the last two meetings (82 in front of Montbrison on December 11 (64-82) and 74 in Calais (74-70), last week). “We have already lowered our level of requirements, with an average of 63 points conceded since the start of the season. But these standards are not at the level of an ambitious team”, warns the CCBF coach, Benoît Marty, aware that it is in this sector of play that the confrontation of this Saturday evening will be decided, against in Mondeville.

Montbrison surprises the CCBF

Especially since the Calvados players, stung at home by the poorly ranked Nantes (52-68), Saturday, will arrive with the bit between their teeth. “I think the idea of ​​conceding a third consecutive loss against us must bother them at the corners”, continues Benoît Marty, who, the page of the Covid-19 turned (sustainably??), has rediscovered the joys of a week of normal work. Recovering all of its workforce, including its best scorer (13.6 pts), Ginette Mfutila.