French handball had, as in 2018, the chance to attend a 100% tricolor final in the Champions League final.
Three years ago, Montpellier had disposed of Nantes.
In Cologne this weekend, out of the four clubs involved in the Final Four of the competition, there were Barcelona, Aalborg and two French clubs: PSG and Nantes.
But if there will be this Sunday, a 100% French poster, it will not be in the final but to compete for a chocolate medal and unimportant at the end of the duel for third and fourth place in the Champions League. , believed 2020-2021.
This match is scheduled from 3.15 p.m. in front of the few thousand supporters who will have the right to enter the large Lanxess Arena in Cologne.
But it will have little flavor.
52 '⏸️
6 units behind for our Nantes
residents
and a task that now promises to be very complicated.
(𝟐𝟔-𝟐𝟎)
𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐪𝐮'𝐚𝐮 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 # BARCAHBCN |
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- HBCNantes (@HBCNantes) June 12, 2021
After the PSG which was trapped a little earlier in the day by the Danish club (35-33), Nantes in turn fell in the semi-final.
After having long been on par with the Catalan ogre (17-17, 40th), the “H” ended up cracking at the end of the match, leaving the Blaugrana to take a lead little by little impossible to catch up (26-20, 52nd ).
The power of Barcelona with its French Nguessan, Mem, Fabregas and Cédric Sorhaindo who will leave the club after long years of service at the end of the final has become a steamroller that the courageous but exhausted Nantes people could not contain.
Barcelona won 31-26.
Barcelona are now more than ever the favorite club to win this Champions League.
But PSG are in a good position to tell the Spaniards that in a Final Four, being favorites is not a guarantee of success.
