In Ligue A volleyball, the derby between Poitiers and Tours was won, 1-3, by the Touraine team, last night, Saturday, October 24, at the Lawson-Body room. The TVB (Tours Volley Ball) won after a tense meeting during which the central Tours demonstrated their effectiveness.
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In front of an audience exclusively from Poitou because of a curfew in Tours but a room all the same full, the volleyball players of the Stade Poitevin recorded their first defeat since the start of the season against TVB, currently second in League A and champion of France In title.
The Poitiers / Tours derby is always a moment awaited by players and volleyball fans and last night’s has kept its promises.
Led by its two central Aracaju and Montés who put the Poitevin block in difficulty, the Touraine team set the tone for the match by pocketing the first set (22-25) then the second by the same score.
“We handled the end of the first two sets badly.” will recognize Brice Donat at the end of the meeting. “Their exchanges are formidable even when we put them in difficulty with our service, they always came back through the center. They had a very good game” added the Poitevin coach.
Stade Poitevin saved the honor by winning the third set 25-22 but Poitiers will lose in the fourth and final set by the same score.
In this last round, the players of Brice Donat will multiply the failures in the service. After three victories in three games, this defeat leaves a bitter taste to the young team from Poitou.
We made a lot of mistakes on counter-attacks or balls where we should have put the point. While we did well on the difficult counter-attacks, the easier points we made mistakes, mistakes in lucidity.
“A victory of scavengers”
We expected a close match for this derby, deprived of the usual sound encouragement from Touraine supporters who could not make the trip to Lawson-Body. The tension was less in the stands but it was very present on the pitch. In the game of pressure to destabilize the opponent, Tours was stronger, a matter of experience perhaps.
It’s a team that fights all the time, it could only be a victory for scavengers. Poitiers is not giving up, they played well from the start, they arrange, they try to search and at the same time, it feels good, it makes a spectacle, it’s rather pleasant to play against teams like that rather than sanitized .
A show which the Poitou trainer would have gone well and for whom this war of nerves proved to be “tiring” and above all “useless” for a team of the level of Tours.
It’s true that a derby is always a bit tense, but I’m a little surprised that a team of this level isn’t more of a gentleman. It’s nonstop, it’s tiring with a challenge on each point so it’s true that we are responding but I don’t think we were the first tonight. I think they absolutely don’t need that to win games.
This derby therefore marked the end of invincibility for Poitiers. The next meeting for the Stade Poitevin, the match against Nice on Tuesday October 27, a postponed meeting, due to the Covid-19 epidemic, from the third day of the championship and which was to be played on October 9.
Volleyball: Tours (1-3) win at Poitiers
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