This Saturday, May 16, the first round of the play-offs took place against the Villebon-sur-Yvette Quarks. A match largely dominated by the Spartans which ended in a 38-6 victory, against opponents discouraged by the Amiens performance.
Ce first round of the play-offs, away, was a formality for the Spartans of Amiens. He was sure that the local team, although first in its group, would be no match for this defensive and offensive armada of the Spartans. The challenge, for the Amiens, was therefore more don’t succumb to overconfidence against the Quarks with the fever of previous victories.
The MVP of the meeting goes mainly to the D-line residents of the Grand Marais stadium, responsible for three touchdowns. In this regard, the head coach of the Spartans, Rémi Fournier, looks back on the match: “Our defense put in a monstrous performance, they didn’t let anything slip through. The only touchdown the Quarks scored was on a tiny mistake. Otherwise, throughout the rest of the match, the defense was intractable. On the special teams, the kicking teams, we were really perfect as well.” Despite everything, the Spartans had a little slack in the attackwith a few errors that will have to be worked on during the two weeks preceding their next meeting against the Corsairs of Évry, “the most important match of the season“, according to Rémi Fournier. Lucid, the Amiens coach returns to these negative points: « En attaque, It was very sluggish with a lot of errors. Errors that come from ourselves, it’s not even the opponent who is stronger. That is to say a lot of errors in concentration, youth, stress management. We are going to work hard on it. […] Maybe we’ll do some shuffling on the offensive line. Because for the next match of the Corsairs, we will not have the right to make mistakes. »
Either way, this match is truly proof that the adage “defense leads to offense” is still relevant. As for defense, Rémi Fournier would like to remind you of the importance of coaches on the sidelines: “It’s the fruit of Adnane’s work Hamman because he spends his time dissecting the opposing attack’s plays in relation to their tendencies. Afterwards, he prepares what is called a game plan for the defense andplayers just have to learn whatAdnane asks them to learn. Afterwards, you have to execute everything in a match and the players are in the right place at the right time every time. »
At the end of the match, certain players from the Corsairs, who had finished their match against the Templiers d’Élancourt, which ended in a victory for the Corsairs 19-0had even come to “trashtalk” (provoke, editor’s note) the players of the Spartans, their next opponent on May 30 during the conference finals nord. Even if this meeting will take place in Évry, site of the Spartans’ biggest defeat in the regular season, Rémi Fournier does not think that this will work against his team: « It’s not going to be an X factor because the club is planning a bus of supporters who will come with us. There, when we played against the Quarks, there were around twenty people who were there, parents or alumni who still follow the team. And there, we will have an extra bus of supporters. With the atmosphere that they are going to create, of course, we will not be at the Grand Marais, but we will will have people behind us. When we have key moments, we need a little bounce forward.ÂThey are always there to support us, to encourage us.«Â
Noa Lambert
Crédit photo : Théo Bégler – Gazettesports.fr (archive)
