2024-03-18 22:22:41
PFor the Boxers, it was time to break the black streak. The same one which encouraged the leaders of the Spartans to maintain confidence in the POMGE boxes at the end of the first third, while the Marseillais were trailing 0-1. “When Bordeaux opened the score, we have always won until then,” repeated Xavier Viola, the commercial director of the Marseille club, in front of…
PFor the Boxers, it was time to break the black streak. The same one which encouraged the leaders of the Spartans to maintain confidence in the POMGE boxes at the end of the first third, while the Marseillais were trailing 0-1. “When Bordeaux opened the score, we have always won until then,” repeated Xavier Viola, the commercial director of the Marseille club, in front of local sponsors, in a sort of mantra between Coué method and deep conviction.
But we have to believe that the Boxers really changed something during this match 6. Yes, Olivier Dimet’s men scored first once more, for the fifth time in the series, but this time, they won . A relief worthy of the challenge for the Bordelais, without a net this Monday evening in Provence, faced with a situation as clear as it is distressing: victory or a premature end to the season. “We came with the firm intention of not dying,” proclaims the coach, joined by his captain Maxime Legault. “We only wanted one thing: to bring the series home! What interests me, following Saturday’s defeat, is the way we reacted: we arrived confident, prepared and we did the job. »
Surgical precision
To afford the right to play a dizzying Match 7 on Wednesday at Mériadeck (8:15 p.m.), the Boxers have above all finally found what they had been terribly lacking until then: efficiency. Unable to materialize their crazy domination on Saturday (43 shots to 21), the Bordelais were this time with surgical precision: 21 seconds to materialize their first situation of numerical superiority a quarter of an hour into the game (thanks to Enzo Carry), a long shot from Loïk Poudrier to double the lead in the 28the minute, following having spent the entire start of the second third being cornered on their cage, then two goals at the end of the match (by Julius Valtonen and Nikita Jevpalovs) to anesthetize the 5,576 spectators at the largest ice rink in France.
In the meantime, it will be necessary to highlight the exceptional performance of goalkeeper Quentin Papillon (23 saves), who multiplied the victorious one-on-ones to disgust the Marseille attackers.
Or a score without a false note for an evening on a tightrope… « We had a serious, disciplined, well-established match,” says Olivier Dimet, already looking towards the seventh round. “It’s the closest series in the championship: we are 2-2 in the regular season with Marseille, 3-3 in the play-offs. But there are 60 minutes ahead of us to reach the semi-finals. » Looking forward to Wednesday!
Marseille 0 – Bordeaux 4
Lieu Marseille (POMGE) Spectators 5 576 Referees MM. Barcelo et Cregut Third party TIME 0-1, 0-1, 0-2
Penalties : 2+2+2 = 6 minutes for Marseille; 2+0+0 = 2 minutes for Bordeaux
MARSEILLE
The Guardian Ciliak (60 minutes, 22 saves)
BORDEAUX Carry (ass. Legault and Jevpalovs, 15’52), Poudrier (ass. Kauppila and Salonen, 28’19), Valtonen (ass. Spinozzi and Polcs, 47’21), Jevpalovs (ass. Polodyan, 49’09)
The Guardian Papillon (60 minutes, 23 stops)
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