Water polo: Montpellier puts a big boost of air conditioning in the Sète basin

Sète never found the direction of the march in attack, even in a favorable situation. MIDI LIBRE – Jérôme Belluire

This Saturday, October 5, for the opening of the season, the MWP dominated its subject in front of an unimaginative Sète team (7-11).

Both teams had displayed their ambitions before this Hérault derby, only one managed to assume. Faced with a Sète team in decline throughout the match, the Montpellier team were never worried.

A match… at the beginning

There was indeed a sort of observation round, with each team having a somewhat sluggish start. At the start of the match, the attackers made the goalkeepers shine or did not find the target. Mustur, as a good captain, finally opened the scoring for the MWP. Paul Garcia answered him but the former Sète player Chandieu allowed the visitors to end the first quarter with a score of 1-2.

There was still a game. Especially since Do Carmo started the second quarter by finding the back of the net (2-2). But it was, against all expectations, the last goal for the Sète team in this first half. Mustur started to score goals, followed by Spilliaert, and the score went to 2-5. For their part, the Sète team produced nothing offensively and Andric took advantage of this to fill his match sheet. A one-way period, which allowed Montpellier to arrive at the break with the score at 2-6.

A reaction quickly stifled

The blow to the head hurt and the Sète team still managed to react. A goal from Debiais, from a tight angle, reduced the gap to 6-8. But the hope of a comeback was short-lived and Chandieu's goal, just before the end of the quarter, sounded the end of the break (6-9).

It became definitive when Mustur and Spilliaert put the nail in the coffin (6-11), before a final goal from Paul Garcia for the anecdote (7-11). The derby was one-sided, Sète took the wrong path.

The technical sheet

► Sète Natation…………..7
► Montpellier WP……….11

Centre Raoul-Fonquerne
Details of the quarters: 1-2, 1-4, 4-3, 1-2.
Referees: MM. Masson and Bourgès.

Sète: Paul Garcia (4 goals), Debiais (1), Do Carmo (1), Tomic (1).
Three temporary exclusions.

Montpellier: Mustur (5 goals, including 1 penalty), Chandieu (2), Vilcot Lambert (1), Irmes (1), Spilliaert (2).
Seven temporary exclusions. One definitive.