Coupe de France: with its returning internationals, the MHB sweeps Dunkirk and qualifies in the last four

Sebastian Karlsson s'est montré très efficace devant le but. Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

Sérieux, appliqués et avec un Rémi Desbonnet des grands soirs, Montpellier n'a laissé aucune chance à Dunkerque en quart de finale de Coupe de France (36-26).

Seven weeks after its last games, the FDI Stadium reunited with its heroes. Its French European champions (Desbonnet, Bolzinger, Konan, Porte and a Yanis Lenne in civilian clothes) but also its tanned Swedish wingers (Karlsson and Pellas), in Germany, as well as its Yugoslavs (Panic and Nacinovic) and his South Americans (Simonet and Monte), all honored before the match.
On the field, Rémi Desbonnet disgusted the Dunkirks in the first act as much by his saves (8/20 at 40% success) as by his precise raises in the hands of his Scandinavian arrows (20-12 at half-time) . 

Fernandez out injured

In the second half, the gap increased to +12 for the protégés of Patrice Canayer, who was thus able to rest his internationals, and hand over the reins to Prat, Berthier and Guigon, who were able to show themselves to their advantage. A qualification (36-26) for the last four of the Coupe de France, a competition that the Montpellier club has won 13 times, which still contains a black spot: Jaime Fernandez's ankle injury.

The technical sheet

MONTPELLIER 36
DUNKERQUE 26

FDI Stadium.
Half time: 20-12.
MONTPELLIER : Desbonnet (10 saves on 27 shots including 2/6 pen), Bolzinger (2 saves on 11 shots including 1/4 pen).
Pellas (4 goals on 4 shots including 1/1 on pen), Monte (3/4), Simonet (3/5), Porte (2/4), Karlsson (5/5), Konan (1/3), Skube (3/4), Panic, A.Lenne (2/2), Fernandez (2/2), Prat (6/8 including 1/1 on pen), Berthier (1/1), Nacinovic (1/2 ), Guigon (3/7).

DUNKERQUE : Kieffer (9 saves on 38 shots including 0/2 pen), Sejr Jensen (0 saves on 38 shots including 0/2 pen), Sejr Jensen (0 saves on 38 shots including 0/2 pen), Sejr Jensen (0 saves on 38 shots including 0/2 pen), t on 5 shots).
Tossin (1 goal on 1 shot), Nagy, Afgour (2/2), Klimkow, Nyateu (3/4), Kragh (4/6), Yoshida (2/3), Martinez (0/1), Faustin ( 2/5), Marie-Joseph (1/3 including 0/1 on pen), Pelayo (4/8 including 3/5 on pen), Nielsen (6/8 including 4/4 on pen), Indjai, Billant ( 1/2)
Two minutes à : Yoshida, Marie-Joseph.