France: Nantes defeat Tourcoing at tie break in advance of Round 8

Round 8 of 2022/23 French Ligue A started today with a thrilling home win for Nantes, who needed five sets fo down Tourcoing (20:25:25:19, 25:23, 18:25, 15:10)
With this victory, Nantes hook the same Tourcoing at third place or the current standings. Both sides have in fact 15 points.
Chizoba Neves Atu was unstoppable, scoring an impressive record of 38 points with an excellent 65% in attack (plus 2 aces and one winning block) for the winning side.
Morit Reichert scored 20 for Tourcoing with the same percentage in attack.

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🏐| Ligue A 2022/23 | JOURNÉE 8 | Round 8

👉🏼 Friday November 11, 2022
• 20.45 (Local Time) | Nantes Rezé – Tourcoing 3-2 (20:25:25:19, 25:23, 18:25, 15:10)

Saturday November 12, 2022
• 19.00 (Local Time) | Plessis-Robinson – Nice 1-3 (25:23, 22:25, 22:25, 21:25)
• 19.00 (Local Time) | Narbonne – Sète 3-2 (21:25, 25:21, 25:21, 15:25, 15:10)
• 20.00 (Local Time) | Cambrai – Saint-Nazaire 1-3 (24:26, 25:23, 20:25, 18:25)

Sunday November 13, 2022
• 17.00 (Local Time) | Chaumont – Poitiers 3-0 (25:21, 25:23, 25:18)
• 17.00 (Local Time) | Montpellier – Toulouse 3-0 (25:22, 25:22, 25:23)
• 17.00 (Local Time) | Tours – Paris 3-0 (25:23, 26:24, 25:21)

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🏐| STANDINGS (updated on this day)
1. Chaumont 19
2. Tours 17
3. Nantes 15
4. Tourcoing 15
5. Saint Nazaire 14
6. Montpellier 12
7. Narbonne 10
8. Sète 10
9. Plessis Robinson 8
10. Paris 8
11. Cambrai 7
12. Toulouse 6
13. Poitiers 5
14. Nice 4

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| JOURNÉE 9 | Round 9

Saturday November 19, 2022
• 18.00 (Local Time) | Toulouse – Chaumont
• 19.00 (Local Time) | Nice – Cambrai
• 19.30 (Local Time) | Poitiers – Tours
• 20.00 (Local Time) | Saint-Nazaire – Nantes Rezé

Sunday November 20, 2022
• 16.30 (Local Time) | Sète – Plessis-Robinson
• 17.00 (Local Time) | Tourcoing – Montpellier

Monday November 21, 2022
• 20.00 (Local Time) | Paris – Narbonne

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