The last day felt like mission impossible for the Hérault peoplefirst relegated and who absolutely had to win on the lawn of the Périgords still in the race for the climb, since they occupied second place behind Puy Foot.
However, Frédéric Garny’s men had no not their destiny in hand, they who also had to rely on a faux pas from Chamalières on the field of Les Herbiers. On arrival, the Auvergne club was held back by Jeffrey Assoumin’s Vendeans (1-1). But the MHSC, which had nevertheless opened the scoring in Bergerac thanks to midfielder Claude Eboumbouwas joined after the break, before finally losing just before stoppage time.
This is how the reserve team ends two small points from Chamalières, with eight wins, six draws and sixteen defeats, and therefore goes down to National 3; a level at which she would have evolved, this season, if she had not been drafted last year.
Logical outcome?
Predictable epilogue of a trying season, finally, for a team which, when accepting the draft a year ago, had already started a change of course, a facelift and even liposuction, because of the lean period that the club was going through, financially. Reducing the number of contracts at the training center as in the professional group and rejuvenating the workforce had then constituted the two main axes desired by the leaders.
Result, by agreeing to play in National 2, the MHSC knew that it would suffer and that it would have to fight. The coach indeed had to compose, and sometimes cobbled together, with a team that few experienced pros have been able to strengthen.
Frédéric Garny has, in fact, evolved with many players born in 2003, in 2004, or even in 2005. struggled to compete.
And yet, the Paillade, well helped at times by Yanis Guermouche, Nicholas Gioacchini, Béni Makouana, or even Gabriel Barès, will have been close to achieving the feat of maintaining itself, which, under these conditions, already constitutes a small performance. She who, for the last match, had only one professional player, in this case goalkeeper Matis Carvalho, who had insisted on coming to lend a hand, while Enzo Tchato and Khalil Fayad, were still too just to do their return.
next season, Montpellier will not find the Nîmes Olympique, relegated to Regional 1. No more than Olympique d’Alès, promoted to N2. On the other hand, the pailladins will evolve with Narbonne, the reserve of Rodez or the RCO Agde.