23.01.2022, 04:30 GROUP B REVIEW: Les Neptunes de Nantes secured their clearest win of the season in the rematch of the last year’s semi-final against CS Minaur Baia Mare |
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Les Neptunes de Nantes became the first team to clinch 10 wins in the history of the EHF European League Women, after beating CS Minaur Baia Mare, 34:29, in a rematch of their crunch semi-finals last season, which the French side also won. GROUP B
Nantes leave no chance for Baia Mare One week ago, Baia Mare recorded their worst-ever loss in the history of their participations in European competitions, a 19-goal drubbing at the hands of Bietigheim. They improved a bit this time around, but not enough, as influential centre back Cristina Laslo was once again limited to only four goals from 11 shots. It is the lack of depth and experience which make Baia Mare a sure-fire victim in away games, as tougher opponents find it easy to take advantage of their defensive woes. With an average of conceded goals of 35 goals per game, the Romanian side has the worst defensive record in the competition at this point. On the other hand, Nantes suffered in the first half, but their Swedish connection of Hagman and back Carin Stromberg worked beautifully, scoring 16 goals between them. Another win in two weeks in Baia Mare would be crucial for Nantes, who just secured their 10th win in history in the EHF European League Women. Post-match quotes Raul Fotonea, Baia Mare coach: “We made some technical mistakes at the beginning of the second half and also some one-against-one misses. This was the result, we lost the game at the beginning of the second half. After that we tried very hard to come back in the game. We'll try in the next game at home to recover this. The girls made the great effort to play against Nantes because they play very good handball with very good speed and they are very good team and I must congratulate them for today’s game. Guillaume Saurina, Nantes coach: “We knew that they would put a lot of intensity and physical power in this game and that's what happened. Regarding the second half we just said to the girls that we have to be more focused and more clever in defence because we watched the video and we saw that they make things, of course we cannot stop everything, but there are some specific things. “We have to be focused and ready on it and we were not so ready in the first half. So we put some more physical power at the start of the second half where we could get some stops and rebounds. We scored on the first play so on the speed and on the fast break so it was a good start of second half.” TEXT: EHF / Adrian Costeiu |
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