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the essentials Federal 2 – 20th d. With six points behind Villefranche-de-Lauragais (6th with 51 points), to whom Sporting will have to travel on the last day, and nine points behind Prades (5th with 54 points), Leucate (7th with 45 points) now finds itself in the soft underbelly of the championship.
The top 6, synonymous with qualification for the French championships, moved further away with the logical defeat conceded eight days ago at home against the leader, Palavas-Lunel (5-28).
It is also true that if there is not much to regret about this last meeting, it would rather be the previous failure (16-14), at Lévézou-Ségala, dead last in the class, which had not so far won no match since the start of the season, which is a mess.
These three additional points would have allowed the Audois to believe in it a little more. That said, nothing is lost. Mathematically, there are 15 points left to take and Sporting will meet these two main competitors for qualification with Prades (April 7) at home, then Villefranche-de-Lauragais (April 21) at home. Enough to put a little pressure on the three teams.
However, to give ourselves a little hope, the maintenance seems to have been achieved with an 11-point lead over the first relegated club (Pézenas 11th with 34 points), the Maritimes must win today at Canton-d’Alban . Especially since the Tarnais won at Leucate on December 3 (23-30) in a match that looked more like an accident.
Last Sunday, at the final whistle and without having yet had knowledge of the day’s results, Mathias Bastélica, co-coach of Sporting with Loïc Montagne and Thomas Baladud from Saint-Jean, was not mistaken in telling his players: ” Let’s not talk about maintaining or qualifying anymore. We have three games left to play. Let’s play them one after the other and win them! Then we’ll see where we are.”
Their opponents of the day are takeable
Then, the men of captain Pierre Pineda, author of a huge season, are there today and they will have to perform. At home, the Canton of Alban lost five matches (ES Catalane, Castanet, Millau, Palavas-Lunel and Villefranche-de-Lauragais). The Tarnais also conceded a draw against Pézenas. In fact, they only won against Lévézou-Ségala, Prades and Balma.
Their opponents of the day are therefore takeable. At least on paper. The Maritimes will nevertheless have to cope without Bourguignon and Yannick Sourès (red card). Rabat and Lanes are established in the 3rd line. Florian Sourès returns, after his injury, to the opening, associated with Dumas.
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