Jurij Zdovc (Boulogne-Levallois coach): “Pau played very well, as I expected. I had seen their first four matches, there is something about them, an energy. I tried to warn my players but they couldn’t find their rhythm. I have always tried to encourage them. I have been a player myself, I know that sometimes the head wants but the legs do not respond. We didn’t have Vitalis (Chikoko), who is in a weird situation since he’s negative for Covid but with all the signs of the disease, however that’s no excuse. At least this kind of match shows what character a team can have. Little by little, we managed to play harder, faster, to put in difficult shots. I don’t know if we deserve this victory, we have to play better than that, but at the end of the day it is there. “
Laurent Vila (Pau-Lacq-Orthez coach): “The whole first half is satisfactory, that’s why the disappointment is there. We had found a good path to victory, but a match lasts forty minutes. It’s a shame not to have been able to finish, it would have been good to be four wins and one loss. We had a very average second half, they managed to break our rhythm. They locked in the rebound to run and have more quick shots, and they got us all over the half court. It’s their game to control the tempo. We were unable to find an alternative in the game. “
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