Volleyball – Ligue A: the Spacer’s of Toulouse must refuel against the red lantern Cambrai
Faced with Cambrai, last in the championship, the Toulouse team must absolutely win at home. To avoid being scared and to keep dreaming.
On Wednesday evening, Spacer’s president Yann Kerihuel improvised a small meeting with his staff and players at the Palais des sports. It’s clearly time for general mobilization as the people of Toulouse are at the crossroads of a season which for the moment is not taking the expected path. The moment is crucial and time is running out.
At the end of the afternoon, the teammates of Maximiliano Chirivino will fight two battles, concomitant and heavy with consequences: take a big step towards maintaining while extending the right to dream of the play-off promised to the first eight. The condition is simple, you have to fill up and therefore win 3-0 or 3-1. Currently twelfth, the Spacer’s have seven units more than Cambrai, last, and nine less than Sète, eighth.
Three out of three for Cambrai…
With a ten-point lead and eight games to play, the hardest part would be to avoid this fourteenth place synonymous with Ligue B and an economic-sporting disaster from which the club would undoubtedly have a hard time recovering. But since bad surprises don’t just happen to others, keeping the red lantern with your head underwater now seems almost more important than dreaming bigger, as the other would say.
Because Cambrai is going badly, and for a long time: the Northerners thus remain on a black series of… fourteen defeats in a row and two points taken from the last forty-two put into play. It is not heavy, of course, but the problem it is that the Toulousains are not able to brag either. The weight of the recent past no doubt, they who lost in the first leg (1-3) – one of Cambrai’s only two victories this season – and who more generally did not take the slightest point in the last three clashes between the two teams. It’s the evening or never to weld the accounts. Otherwise…