Garonne will play its quarter in Braids

The sheet

AS Braids (N3) + 7 pts – Garonne AB (N2)
GARONNE AB The group: Gueye, Regis, Auriol, Lesbarrères, Lopez, Le Borgne, Comblon, Réal, Wansi Fonkua and Séquélé.
Lieu Braids (Sports hall). Referees MM. Douville and Nassiet. Hourly This Saturday at 8 p.m.

Looking at the initial calendar, the Garonnais expected…

The sheet

AS Braids (N3) + 7 pts – Garonne AB (N2)
GARONNE AB The group: Gueye, Regis, Auriol, Lesbarrères, Lopez, Le Borgne, Comblon, Réal, Wansi Fonkua and Séquélé.
Lieu Braids (Sports Hall). Referees MM. Douville and Nassiet. Hourly This Saturday at 8 p.m.

Looking at the initial schedule, the Garonnais expected to play against the Dacquo-Gamardais, but a first postponement of the match and the multiplication of injuries in the Landes workforce forced the staff to forfeit, thus giving way to a team de Tresses (National 3), very happy to take an extra lap, if only on green carpet.

Might as well start with a dry statement, the Girondins are currently last in Group D of N3, with three wins and twenty losses. To say that this group is counting on the Cup to give a little balm to the heart of a complicated season is not a challenge. The Tressois only have this quarter-final to play to try to save what can be saved from a 2022-2023 exercise which will see them return to the regional championship. The Sacha Thuilliez, former hope of Pau aged 21 still a little tender, and Arnaud Desroses, the only one to really float with 14 points on average, will not have been enough to ensure the maintenance, even if mathematically there is still a whole small possibility.

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For the GAB, “the ”South West” Cup was a goal for the start of the season for the team, we wanted to find the atmosphere of Pomarez”, recognizes coach Adrien Ferrer. “There is one game left for qualification, it is up to us to do what it takes not to let ourselves be surprised by a team that will have nothing to lose. “And to ask him the question if he already has the lead in the championship match the following Saturday against the Bellopod neighbors, the Garonne coach assures:” Winning without being surprised, that of course means not making the wrong decision. objective, everything in its time. There, we are fully on the ”South-West” Cup. Of course we have set ourselves several objectives to end the season and this qualification is one of them, so we must not overuse it. The risk would be to take the game lightly, but that is not our intention at all. »

Besides, coach Ferrer will be able to take advantage of his entire workforce, minor sores are treated and the victory at Rézé, admittedly a little painful, has revived the motivation of the group which wants to continue its journey on both counts. The Garonnais have already won the final victory at Pomarez but that was a long time ago now and the only one who can have a vague memory of it is Mathieu Auriol, but he was very young at the time, even if there were won the U20 title since.

In the other matches of the evening for these quarter-finals, the other Dax team withdrew, preferring to devote themselves to the Coupe de Landes, leaving the qualification to Real Chalosseis while the last two matches will oppose Horsarrieu (N2) to Mérignac (N3), and the Chartrons (R2) at Coteaux du Luy (N3) for four places in the semi-finals, on Friday May 19, after the end of the N2 championship therefore and a possible final to follow the next evening in the mythical arenas of Pomarez, located in the heart of the Chalosse landaise, in the setting of the Landes races but adorned with the colors of the regional finals for a weekend.