“Happy and relieved”the Tourangeaux were all at the end of this explosive tie-break torn from Nice (14-16) on Saturday. Happy to have qualified for the semi-finals in three games. No doubt relieved even more of not having to plunge back, this Monday, in this Mini-Chaudron Niçois which quickly made you engulf a team, and in particular this TVB version 2024-2025, capable of being brilliant but above all very intermittent.
And this was still the case in this match 3 where Nice was intractable at his home, and his 17 counters are the perfect illustration, but where the Tourangeaux have, too, too fault … Faced with the Riviera defense, with a briggs in boss of the rear line, the TVB often had trouble concluding. “Frustrating” As Zeljko Coric will recognize.
In this, after the legitimate satisfaction of this qualification, the Tourangeaux will find grain to grind by returning to Grenon this week. Marcelo Fronckowiak greeted the abnegation and strength of the fight of his Captain Coric after having “Completely smashed against advertising panels” In the second set to better point to other individual shortcomings.
“We have to answer us present”
In the service in particular where there was “Lots of waste” With basically one in five failed service, one in three for Pothron and significantly as much to sclatal … the Touraine coach still regretted one “Lack of aggressiveness” Despite adversity.
“I can understand that there is the pressure, a delicate situation to manage compared to the room, but it is necessary that all, and I included, we replied at the given moment. »» By taking the right options, but also by displaying an even more conquering attitude.
-If Luca Ramon was still a metronome, if Zeljko Coric has shown the example, the others and in particular boys like Sclater or Pothron must display more while the TVB is now launched in these play-offs. “You have to think, be lucid in relation to the reality encountered and the individual benefitsMarcelo Fronckwiak was continued. I am very happy with the way we finished this match, but there were times when it took another attitude, another approach. »»
“We will meet a higher level now”
They will be essential for the semi-finals, which the next opponent is called Montpellier or Cannes, the two competing this Monday in a match 4 and the two having beat, every time, TVB this season … “We’re going to meet a higher level nowconfirms the Tourangel coach. You have to prepare and you will have to act. »»
Tours ahead of him eleven days before this semi-final which will start on April 25 and will be played in two winning games. « C‘is very good to have a few days without playing: we will be hungry ”traffic Zeljko Coric.
“TVB remains in the highest French and European level”
In the meantime, the TVB has validated its ticket in Nice for a new European campaign. And it is not little in general, with regard to this season made of ups and downs in particular. “We remain European, the TVB remains in the highest French and European levelrightly underlined Marcelo Fronckowiak. We fulfill the contract to be in the first four, and I am very proud that we do it for the fourth year that I train here. »»
But the Tourangeaux still have the possibility of climbing higher in this hierarchy. It’s up to them to play!
