The blood and gold wall. And Tolo!
There are forty seconds left to play this Wednesday evening in Mitterrand white-hot … and blue. Basket Landes in a unique comeback sails five points from the Catalans. The case is tight, we believe it for the moment of a dragonfly flight but it is nevertheless too late. The ace! Girona wins by having mastered an exciting and packed meeting but also marked by many faults on both sides. The blue of Gascony have always been led to the score. And Girona has relied, among other things, on Marianna Tolo, which last season wore the colors of the Landes, and which martyred its former comrades. Boosted, the Australian walks on water as during the last world championships. Rebounds, distribution, counters, the pivot hovers above the floor. We add to this two penguin steps, Binta DrammehSwedish international author of fifteen points and Rebekah Gardner, Californian from Chicago who passes eleven, two untenable who make the pair. In the big atmosphere of almost full Mitterrand, the mistakes were expensive. This is Evelyn Akhator, top scorer with fifteen achievements who is trying to sound the charge of the Gascon brigade! In vain. In a meeting certainly pleasant to follow but of few points finally. 33-24 at halftime, Girona unfolds, calm as Basile, when BL is close to his basketball. The Catalan wall is thick and we play virile and virile. The Spaniards have, it is true, already played six official matches, four in the national championship, two in the Euroleague. They also fought hard to qualify for the continental race at the expense of Villeneuve d’Ascq. They are ready. This partly explains it. BL, very late as we know for its part in its summer preparation by the absence of its internationals, pays for a lack of carburation, a lack of automation and a lack of fluidity. There is more than to work, program claimed by the manager Julie Barennes who remains calm even if a bit perplexed at the time of the balance sheet.
Appointment to follow in the European Cup on Wednesday November 2, outing in Salamanca to face Avenida, 6th in its domestic championship after four days.