Tours knew it: this match against Nice was going to be complicated. And it was! The Tourangeaux struggled immensely to overcome an excellent Nice team which, as their coach Pascal Foussard said, “will trouble others.”
Meanwhile, the TVB managed to secure three points, and given the circumstances, they can savor them because Nice really hung on and only surrendered at the end.
The sets were played point by point, as evidenced by the total points per team, 100 for each, which speaks volumes…
This was an attacking duel between the local scorers, the former Nice player Egleskalns (18 points) and Nathan Wounembaina (23), who faced off against those from Nice, Overbeeke (26 pts) and Galabov (21).
The final score, Tours – Nice: 3-1 (27-25, 19-25, 29-27, 25-23)
