BBH – Metz: a “final”, in more ways than one

“We’re not going to lie there, it’s the most important game of the season.” Like Coralie Lassource, there is no need to remind the Brestoises of the challenges in the meeting that awaits them against Metz. With a win in advance, Pablo Morel’s players will be (almost) certain to be crowned at the end of the season, the last three days (against Saint-Maur, dead last, Chambray, 5th and Besançon, 8th) the reach of a group who are still unbeaten in the championship and who want to remain so until the end.

– It is a game that all the players want to play. They are involved and it shows. It is very nice to be able to prepare for this type of meeting, says Pablo Morel, who, however, knows very well that he is also playing big. Arriving in Brest in 2021, the coach, who leaves for the Romanian club Gloria Buzau, has the opportunity to end his time at the Breton front with a title, in the most beautiful way. Like Laurent Bezeau in his time.

Coatanéa: “We are betting everything on this match”

If he emphasizes the importance of the work carried out during these three seasons (“in the structuring, the recruitment, the collective dynamics, the identity that we were able to instill”), the technician knows very well that his “time in Brest will also be evaluated on our ability to win a title.” “The club is preparing to turn a page with many departures

, including the trainer’s. It would be very nice to end up with a title, and undefeated, says Pauline Coatanéa, who does not hide that Brestoises is betting “everything on this match”.

Facing a perfectly oiled team from Messines, qualified for the Final 4 of the Champions League and aware that “the smallest new misstep, after the one from the first stage, would definitely take us away from the title” as their coach Emmanuel Mayonnade puts it, the Finisterians is convinced they have “the weapons to beat them, we showed that on the way out,” according to Lassource. “We are going to throw all our strength into this match. It is up to us to show the temperament of a warrior, while keeping a cool head, says Coatanéa. The rest is history.