Weighed down by a catastrophic start to the match, the Gimontoises lost at home and started badly this year 2023.
Did the end of year celebrations still weigh on the legs gimontoises? Or in the heads? Still, the girls of the Étoile Sportive de Gimont made life impossible for themselves by being totally absent at the start of their match against a good team from Saumur Loire Basket 49.
Clumsy, without intensity, the Gersoises had a nightmarish first quarter, showing themselves unable to stand up to the Saumuroises who were determined to move up the rankings. And the first ten minutes ended with an incredible score of 5 points for Gimont against 22 for Saumur. A disbursement of 17 points almost impossible to recover.
Too late a reaction
However, awakened by the slap received during this first act, the Gimontoises regained some of their usual strength, defending better and showing more aggressiveness in attack. This allowed the ESG to reduce its delay at halftime.
With 11 points to go up during the second period, the Gersoises could tell themselves that nothing was over yet. And they attacked with newfound determination in the third quarter, which they won by six points. At the start of the last act, everything was still playable, with only five points to go.
But, no doubt marked by the efforts made to pick up the score, the ESG fell back into its ways, mainly in attack. And she failed to come back up to her opponents, who were able to manage their slim advantage. From where a painful final defeat, Gimont losing at the same time the first place of the classification.
From now on, we will have to recover in Nantes, against a team from the ALPC who took advantage of the Gers faux pas to settle down alone at the controls of the group. We will have to show a completely different face to hope to win this crucial match for first place.
Technical sheet :
QT : 5-22 ; 20-14 ; 22-16 ; 15-15.
For Gimont: Bessieres 13, Portal 4, Chanoz 0, Athuyt 0, Toscani 0, Hafini 2, Delaplace 18, Tramont 3, Boudenne 3, Conduche 19.
For Saumur: Plana 1, Beaubrun 15, Heriveaux 4, Ba 10, Jagline 6, Camara 6, Ferreira Da Costa 13, Naudin 4, El Bakkouche Almrina 8.
