Ce week-end a marqué la fin d’une belle série de victoires pour les joueurs du MGC Handball. MGCH – MGCH
A complicated weekend for the Mende Gévaudan Club Handball teams! While the seniors had just qualified for the round of 16 of the regional French Cup the previous weekend, for the girls it was the second consecutive defeat.
Saturday, January 18, 2025, the two first teams of the Mende Gévaudan Club Handball (MGC), the National 2 women's and the Prenational men's, faced Échirolles and Frontignan respectively. Both lost to their opponent of the day.
On the girls' side, the MGC players knew that a complicated match awaited them, since they were hosting the undefeated leader of their group: Échirolles. Added to that the injury of captain Lucie Couderc the day before in training, the Mendoises had to be ready to take on this colossal challenge.
In the first five minutes, the visitors inflicted a 0-4 on their host. The Lozériennes quickly reacted to come back to 3-4 in the ninth minute. Then, Camille Hermet's nose injury disrupted the Mende defense and allowed Échirolles to regain a four-goal lead in the 26th minute (7-11). A final seven-meter throw, conceded before the break, allowed the visitors to reach twelve points (7-12). At the restart, the Échirolles team managed the match as it saw fit, but Carole Akmel's teammates continued their defensive efforts around a very inspired Marie Belard in her goals. In the 45th minute, the Mendoises had still only scored twelve goals, against seventeen conceded.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000“Retain the good things”
Logically, the MGC players finally lost to the leader, with a score of 17 to 21. As a meager consolation prize, there was the satisfaction of having won the second period. “This 0-4 from the start cost us dearly throughout the match. Obviously, we are disappointed, but we must also remember the good things like having only conceded 21 goals against a team that usually scores more than 30 on average. We know that we will have to be sharper in attack if we want to get results”, declared the coach, Sébastien Frey.
Next meeting Saturday January 25, against the second in the championship: Saint-Étienne.
The boys are no longer leaders
After a great series of victories in the championship and the Coupe de France, the teammates of Antoine Cuminal, captain of the Prénationale team, fell on Hérault soil this Saturday, January 18, 2025, in Frontignan. The third team of Frontignan took advantage of the absence of matches on the calendar of its national teams to line up its best players.
From the start of the match, there was intensity in the air, with both teams trading blows. After six goals each in the tenth minute, it was the defenses that took over the attacks and only let four goals through in the next ten minutes. The Mendois, too clumsy in front of the goals, conceded three, but the end of the first period was a festival on their side, until they got back to level with their opponents. 13 each at the break. In the 41st minute, the MGC broke away and led, 16 to 19.
Everything changed when Olivier Cavalier, a pillar of the defense, received a red card while the score was 20 each. Unfortunately, the MGC players then completely lost themselves in the game and made a number of bad choices. That was all it took for the Héraultais, who didn't need to be asked twice to punish their visitors, who were unrecognizable in the last quarter of an hour.
“This defeat is so frustrating. If they had kept their cool, we could have won. I prefer to remember the first 45 minutes, which were very good, and try to work even harder to avoid repeating this kind of disappointment at the end of the match. I don't have the impression that it's physical, but mental. We'll have to react on Saturday in Lansargues”, lamented the coach, Florent Bodin.
I subscribe to read the rest