French Ligue A 2011/2012 season

Quote from Armel

You'd better try to get Nikolay Ivanov back in NT !

Unfortunately that is more like a scenario for "Mission: Impossible - 5"
Really , no chance to be

Thank You Armel. How do Their skills look in Your opinion?

Quote from YavorD

There are no first names mentioned in the rosters, but I guess this is Radoslav Dimitrov.

Yes, that's him.

1st day Results:

Poitiers 3/1 Ajaccio 17-25 25-16 25-18 25-23 P2
Tours 3/0 Lyon 25-16 25-15 25-14 P2
Sète 3/0 Toulouse 25-22 25-22 34-32 P2
Narbonne 0/3 AS Cannes 18-25 21-25 30-32 P2
Rennes 0/3 Montpellier 26-28 23-25 17-25 P2
Paris 0/3 Tourcoing 20-25 18-25 23-25 P2
Nantes Rezé 3/1 Beauvais 20-25 25-15 25-20 25-19 P2

Ranking:

1. Tours 3
2. Tourcoing 3
3. AS Cannes 3
4. Montpellier 3
5. Sète 3
6. Nantes Rezé 3
7. Poitiers 3
8. Ajaccio 0
9. Beauvais 0
10. Toulouse 0
11. Rennes 0
12. Narbonne 0
13. Paris 0
14. Lyon 0

Comments:

Surprisingly no close game for the 1st day. All matches but 2 ended with a 3-0 blow. And both Poitiers and Nantes clarely dominated the game after taking 1 set to start the season.
The most interesting results is without any doubt the victory of Montpellier in Rennes. For now it doesn't say much whether Rennes is not as good as expected or if Montpellier is really greater than last season, but that's 3 points for Montpellier.
Otherwise the victory of Tourcoing in Paris (only the 2nd in the history!) is really worrying for Paris Volley. And the way Beauvais lost in Nantes (I attended the game) is also not a good news for Beauvais. Bartik appeared not at his best shape, and the team without any solution. On the other hand, Tony Krolis had a great game in spiking, and Nantes proved to have multiple solutions and two great middle spikers with Fernandez and Holubec. If one consider that Nantes made many huge mistakes and really has space to improve (including with Prennen back from injury) I'm sure Beauvais is not the first team to lose in Nantes this season, and I'm pretty sure they're going to do even better than last season!

If Lyon was no match for Tours, Narbonne and Toulouse managed to level with Sète and Cannes for at least on set. Would take more to get some points, but it's only the first game of the season.

Last but not least, the defending champion Poitiers, secured a home victory against Ajaccio unless last season when the Corsica team had won 3-2.

When can we see the other stats?

Quote from raylight

When can we see the other stats?

I hope that will be updated soon on LNV website. When it would be done I'll update my post.

Quote from Armel

I hope that will be updated soon on LNV website. When it would be done I'll update my post.

Thank you for your answer

2nd day results:

Beauvais 3/0 Paris 25-22 25-21 25-23 P2
Tourcoing 3/1 Rennes 25-22 21-25 25-13 26-24 P2
Montpellier 3/0 Narbonne 25-21 25-19 25-21 P2
AS Cannes 2/3 Sète 20-25 27-25 13-25 25-23 13-15 P2
Toulouse 0/3 Tours 21-25 20-25 23-25 P2
Lyon 1/3 Poitiers 25-19 23-25 21-25 23-25 P2
Ajaccio 3/2 Nantes Rezé 21-25 32-30 18-25 25-20 15-11

Ranking:

1. Tours 6
2. Montpellier 6
3. Tourcoing 6
4. Poitiers 6
5. Sète 5
6. AS Cannes 4
7. Nantes Rezé 4
8. Beauvais 3
9. Ajaccio 2
10. Rennes 0
11. Lyon 0
12. Toulouse 0
13. Paris 0
14. Narbonne 0

Comments:

Good victory for Tourcoing against Rennes. Tours and Montpellier had an easy task against Toulouse and Narbonne. Poitiers was expected to have an easy game as well in Lyon but they struggled a little bit.
Sète clinched a second victory in Cannes (that played without Takaniko, Nganga, Le Roux and Sali Hile. Feughouo (recently back from African championship) also had very few training with the team. So overall the defeat agasint Sète is not that bad considering they took one point.
Nantes lost in Ajaccio in 5 sets (despite 34 points from Krolis). Though taking a point in Corsica is not that bad, Nantes's players are complaining about the refereeing and argue they deserved to win the game in 3 sets.
First victory for Beauvais against Paris.

Paris and Rennes are so far the only disapointing teams. They'll have a tough task next Saturday facing Nantes and Beauvais.
Two games will be of major interest: Tours vs Cannes and the derby between Sète and Montpellier.

Injury

http://www.nicematin.com/article/papier/las-cannes-decimee

3rd day results:

Paris 3/0 Nantes Rezé 27-25 27-25 27-25 P2
Poitiers 3/0 Toulouse 25-19 25-20 25-23 P2
Tours 3/0 AS Cannes 25-17 29-27 25-23 P2
Sète 3/0 Montpellier 25-23 25-15 25-13 P2
Narbonne 3/1 Tourcoing 38-40 25-23 25-21 25-23 P2
Ajaccio 3/0 Lyon 25-19 25-15 25-20 P2

Rennes vs Beauvais delayed to 10-25 due to current ATP tournament in Rennes.

Ranking:

1. Tours 9
2. Poitiers 9
3. Sète 8
4. Montpellier 6
5. Tourcoing 6
6. Ajaccio 5
7. AS Cannes 4
8. Nantes Rezé 4
9. Beauvais * 3
10. Paris 3
11. Narbonne 3
12. Rennes * 0
13. Lyon 0
14. Toulouse 0

* one game less

Comments:

Only 3 teams currently undefeated: the 3 best teams of last season, Poitiers, Tours, and Sète.
First victory for Paris and Narbonne. (over Nantes and Tourcoing), a proff that this season like the previous, many surprises are to be expected in this championship.
Since Lyon and Toulouse had complicated schedule, their current ranking is not too worrying. The same goes for Cannes who travelled in Tours with only 8 players, and had to replace Cundy (knee injury on a set point for Cannes in 2nd set) by the only man on the bench: Youssef Krou.

paris - ajaccio score please?

Quote from lefterinho

paris - ajaccio score please?

livescore in Paris is often a joke ...

edit: Paris won 3-0

Paris won 3-0!

4th day results:

AS Cannes 1/3 Poitiers 25-20 22-25 19-25 19-25 P2
Montpellier 1/3 Tours 25-19 21-25 22-25 16-25 P2
Tourcoing 3/2 Sète 25-17 35-37 21-25 26-24 18-16
Beauvais 1/3 Narbonne 24-26 17-25 25-22 27-29 P2
Nantes Rezé 3/1 Rennes 21-25 25-21 27-25 25-19 P2
Toulouse 3/2 Lyon 23-25 23-25 25-20 25-18 15-13 P2
Paris 3/0 Ajaccio 25-22 32-30 29-27 P2

Ranking:

1. Poitiers 12
2. Tours 12 *
3. Sète 9
4. Tourcoing 8
5. Nantes Rezé 7
6. Montpellier 6
7. Paris 6
8. Narbonne 6
9. Ajaccio 5
10. AS Cannes 4
11. Beauvais ** 3
12. Toulouse 2
13. Lyon 1
14. Rennes 0 **

* Tours has a better set ratio and point ratio than Poitiers, so I can't figure out why Poitiers is higher in the ranking of the official website !
** one game less

Comments:

Cannes still playing with 7 players could not match with Poitiers. Lyon and Toulouse shared points, leaving Rennes the only team at 0. Beauvais's defeat to Narbonne is very, very worrying for them. After two away defeat, Nantes was able to clinch a second 3-1 victory, like Paris. And Tours lost one set in Montpellier.
But the most interesting result is the victory of Tourcoing against Sète, proof that Tourcoing can match with some of the best of the championship.

5th day results:

Poitiers 3/1 Montpellier 25-23 22-25 25-13 25-13 P2
Tours 3/0 Tourcoing 25-21 25-20 25-20 P2
Sète 1/3 Beauvais 24-26 25-19 22-25 22-25 P2
Narbonne 1/3 Nantes Rezé 23-25 25-22 19-25 21-25 P2
Lyon 0/3 AS Cannes 17-25 22-25 21-25 P2
Ajaccio 1/3 Toulouse 15-25 19-25 27-25 16-25 P2

Rennes vs Paris delayed due to ATP tournament.

Ranking:

1. Tours 15
2. Poitiers 15
3. Nantes Rezé 10
4. Sète 9
5. Tourcoing 8
6. AS Cannes 7
7. Beauvais * 6
8. Paris * 6
9. Montpellier 6
10. Narbonne 6
11. Ajaccio 5
12. Toulouse 5
13. Lyon 1
14. Rennes ** 0

* one game less
** two games less

Comments:

Great victory for Beauvais in Sète. This second defeat in a row for Sète now puts Tours and Poitiers 5 points ahead of other teams, and Nantes at the 3rd place ahead of Tourcoing , Cannes , and Sète.
Still lacking many players, Cannes was able to win easily in Lyon. Tourcoing also lacked 2 starters (Simovski and Gendrey) and had to play with young players (Fidon and Villard) as opp, when US setter Jonathan Winder played as MB: too much to hope anything against Tours.
Last good restult: the victory of Toulouse in Ajaccio. Toulouse needed points after a complicated starting schedule, and brilliantly got them in Corsica where it's always complicated to win.

Tours-Tourcoing league match

http://tv.voleybolx.com/videoi…kekler-1-Ligi-16102011%29

5th day late game:

Rennes 3/0 Paris 25-17 25-20 25-22 P2

Ranking:

1. Tours 15
2. Poitiers 15
3. Nantes Rezé 10
4. Sète 9
5. Tourcoing 8
6. AS Cannes 7
7. Beauvais * 6
8. Montpellier 6
9. Paris 6
10. Narbonne 6
11. Ajaccio 5
12. Toulouse 5
13. Rennes * 3
14. Lyon 1

* one game less

First victory (and points) for Rennes, (and some may say "a wasted opportunity to come back in top 5 for Paris", but I don't think Paris belong to top 5)

1st day and most of 2nd day stats updated

In which does Poitiers strenght stick?