The Coliseum of Amiens at European time! Amiens welcomes, from this Friday evening a round of Continental Cup and will face successively Romanians from Brasov, the Slovenes from Jesenice and the Italians from Asiago. All these teams will challenge each other in three days and the first in the standings will qualify for the semi-final which will take place in November in Denmark. A goal that Amiens had missed in 2019 during his last participation in this competition. This time, the Gothics have every intention of achieving it.
Semi-final goal
“We are not going to approach this round by telling you that we want to finish second or third, that would be ridiculous”, affirms Anthony Mortas. The Gothic trainer who sees many reasons to believe in it, in a group that he considers homogeneous. “In 2019 we approached this round in Denmark a bit in our slippers, being a bit of a little thumb when not at all, we could have really done better and the players at the end of the tournament were disappointed. So that leaves us regrets but also hope for this weekend and then.”
Current sixth in League Magnus, the Gothics will have to be a little more consistent to hope to win this qualification. “All the errors that can cost us matches in the championship will have to be erased”, believes the striker Jeremiah Romand. “We saw that at the start of the season we have ups and downs, there we should really focus on doing only ups“, adds Anthony Mortas for whom this Continental Cup weekend will be” a really pleasant break. It’s unprecedented for many players, it’s at home, all the ingredients are there for a big weekend! “
- Friday: Asiago-Jesenice (4 p.m.) Amiens-Brasov (8:15 p.m.)
- Saturday: Brasov-Asiago (4 p.m.) Amiens-Jesenice (8:15 p.m.)
- Sunday: Jesenice-Brasov (2 p.m.) Amiens-Asiago (6 p.m.)
In case of qualification, Amiens will be able to play one of the two Continental Cup semi-final tournaments from November 19 to 21, either in Aalborg in Denmark or in Warsaw in Poland.