More than a defeat, the Portel team seems to have taken a real slap on Saturday January 10. For their first Betclic ELITE meeting in 2026, Lahaou Konaté and his teammates played a derby in Saint-Quentin, between poorly ranked players.
The The result was clear: a 97-81 victory for a Phénix collective which took precedence over individuals who were too lonely among the Northerners. While Pedro Nuno Monteira begins a new page of the SQBB in forgetting the pastLe Portel is still borrowed from its demons and has its nose more than ever in the direction of the ELITE 2. Beyond this observation, it is above all the manner which disturbs Lahaou Konaté.
” Not up to par »
A leader at heart, the captain of the Stellar boat was nevertheless head down after the meeting in Saint-Quentin. Even more, Lahaou Konaté said to himself « KO Debut » among our colleagues from The Voice of the North. Pointing out a team that has « stopped playing together » in the second half, Le Portel simply did not « not been up to the task ». The Christmas truce hasn’t changed anything: « the second period is a reflection of our season”he ends up lamenting, bothered by back pain.
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Still bottom of the standings, now three wins behind the penultimate, Le Portel seems condemned to go down at the end of the season. Mathematically, all the dice are not yet cast, but the maintenance operation seems impossible. This would require winning more than half of the matches in the return phase, starting next weekend.
And this, while ESSM has only won one since the start of the season, before this success was withdrawn by the DNCCG. To make matters worse, the Stellistes face ASVEL on Saturday, then Paris Basketball the following week, and finally Monaco on February 1st. Add to this the long-term absence of Mathieu Boyer : when it doesn’t want to…
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