When going to Angoulême this Sunday, TFC had not played for two weeks. “The weekend off was good because we hadn’t had one since mid-February,” recalls coach Laurie Boyer. “But we didn’t stop training, we even had a practice match with the U18 team on Wednesday before the game. There was a small fear about the pace, especially knowing that Angoulême wouldn’t give us any gifts and that we needed to be focused from the start.”
The Trélissacoises dominated, despite conceding an early goal from a harmless free-kick. “But then, we were really above them in intensity,” praises the coach. “We suffocated them and created many offensive situations.” This led to five goals scored in the first half and a final one from a penalty kick in extra time, after Angoulême scored, with doubles from Mélanie Le Hir and Aurélie Tankeu Monthe, as well as goals from Noélie Morsanic and Elsa Gouraud.
An advantage to maintain With this resounding success (2-6) against the seventh, Trélissac remains second in Pool B, two points behind the leader Mérignac-Arlac B and eight points ahead of third-placed Le Bouscat, who also won this weekend. “But Le Bouscat has one less game to play, on April 29 against the eighth-placed, so they only have five points behind us,” clarifies Laurie Boyer. The goal will be to keep them within reach in the next two matches, before finishing against Le Bouscat on May 17.
However, the second place may not be enough to secure promotion if the first team of Mérignac-Arlac moves up to Division 3. In R1, with Bergerac winning 0-4 against Jarnac, they are now two points behind the leader Bayonne, who was held to a draw. The suspense is likely to continue until Ascension Day.
A goalkeeper who is the runner-up of France This Sunday, young Yna Tchao was in goal for TFC in Regional 2. Meg Hillairet, the usual starter and a member of the French women’s firefighters team, was in Pas-de-Calais, Biache, to compete in the 8th Women’s Firefighters Championship of France, representing Haute-Vienne. The competition involved 22 departmental teams over three days. After a 1-0 defeat in the opening match against Pas-de-Calais, Haute-Vienne had three 3-0 victories and a 2-0 win in the group stage, followed by a quarter-final win against Ardèche. In the semi-final against Doubs, there were no goals in regulation time but two saves in the penalty shootout by Hillairet secured a spot in the final against Pas-de-Calais. There, the goalkeeper conceded her second goal of the tournament (in eight matches), resulting in a draw (1-1), and couldn’t repeat her heroics in the decisive match. Nevertheless, she became the runner-up of France.
