Toulouse. In Challans, the TBC can aim higher
> The essential
Barring an unlikely doomsday scenario, TBC have secured their place in Group B of Stage Two. And thereby almost achieved his objective for the season: to ensure direct maintenance without going through group C “play-down”. As the density of the championship is not a legend, if the TBC wins this evening in Vendée, it could even aim for participation in group A.
> The TBC can win in Challans…
Last Saturday, in Les Sables-d’Olonne, it was Cédric André the strong link in the interior game of the TBC (MVP of the match with 23 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists). Tuesday, the day of the second consecutive victory of the TBC, against Tours, it was the turn of Ladji Meite to panic the counters (MVP of the match with 13 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist and 4 faults caused).
With his two interiors on the same pitch, with his back line formed by Victor Mopsus, Maxence Dadiet, Martyce Kimbrough who now appears to be one of the most successful in the division, and as on the wing Olivier Yao-Delon has been operating for ten days at his best level, Toulouse can win at Challans, whom he had also beaten (92-82) in the first leg.
> … and can aim higher
In this case, the Toulousains would overtake the Vendéens (who only won one victory in 2023) in the standings and would remain in ambush just one length from fifth place, the last who would qualify for group A in second phase and which should be occupied this evening by Vitré, on equal points with Lorient.
Admittedly, the calendar is not favorable to the TBC, given that they have to face the first two Rennes and Loon in the last four days, but as they have shown on several occasions that they are capable of competing with the favorites of the hen and that his collective is finally complete (unless Maxence Dadiet serves the suspension as a sanction for his repeated technical faults), why could the TBC not dream of participating in group A and therefore in the play -disabled?
Response tonight around 10 p.m.