Montpellier looks straight ahead before attacking the final straight of the year and facing Créteil

Lucas Pellas fera son retour dans le groupe à l’occasion du déplacement à Créteil. Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

Dernière ligne droite avant la trêve internationale pour le MHB qui se déplace à Créteil ce vendredi 6 décembre (20 h) .

A final burst of speed before the holidays for Érick Mathé and the MHB. This Friday against Créteil, the Montpellier team will start a month of December that is probably less intense than in recent weeks but not without its challenges.

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“We still have four matches left, so it's still a lot despite everything, but it will go by really quickly. In 15 days, we're on holiday, so 15 days, four matches, and it starts tomorrow (Friday). It's a great challenge for us,” assures the MHB coach.We said we would try to make it a full house, nine wins in nine matches, from the international break to the international break. For now, we are on target. We have to continue.”

The group

Bolzinger, Desbonnet. Karlsson, Simonet, Cikusa, Fernandez, Pellas, A. Lenne, Prat, Konan, Guigon, Monte, Aho, Porte (c), Dubois, Nacinovic, Becker-Fischer.

We will first have to overcome the obstacle of Créteil, the kind of match that can quickly turn into a trap. “It's an away match and the atmosphere when we host Montpellier is always a bit of a gala atmosphere, so we must not fall into that trap,” emphasizes Érick Mathé. And then, as we know that we have the Coupe de France with Nîmes a few days later, it is perhaps a sin to project ourselves too quickly on that, whereas Créteil is an opponent who, at home, can pose problems.”

Aho, express integration

So to avoid losing feathers in the Parisian suburbs, the MHB will count on its Danish center half Sindre Aho, who arrived last week as a medical joker and qualified in 24 hours, an administrative feat. An integration that was done just as quickly within the Hérault collective.

“We wanted to integrate him against Ivry by telling ourselves that it was a match where we could give him playing time without too much pressure, Mathé says. And so, that was an important element. We were also lucky to have a full week of training where we took the time to share our work with him. And I think he's integrating rather well, he's an easy-going person.”

Montpellier will be without Ahmed Hesham and Yanis Lenne, who has a back injury for this match, but will be able to count on the return of its Swedish winger Lucas Pellas.

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