In the last match of the French League in 2019, Marseille defeated Reims convincingly -12:4 and climbed to the 1st place of the table.
French Elite League 2019/20, Round 9
Marseille – Reims 12:4 (1:1, 5:0, 4:0, 2:3)
CN Marseille: Crousillat 3, Camarassa 3, Blary 2, Marion-Vernoux 2, Izdinsky 1, Vernoux 1.
Stade de Reims: Dulin 1, Andjelic 1, Vix 1, Bielik 1.
Noisy-le-Sec – Nice 13:7 (5:2, 2:3, 5:1, 1:1)
Noisy-le-Sec: Petkovic 4, Marzouki 2, Pesteric 2, Streling 2, Hansen 2, Peisson 1.
Olympic Nice: Cakic 2, Bachelier 1, Abela, Cautte 1, Cutovic 1, Ladouce 1.
Montpellier – Tourcoing postponed
Pays d’Aix – Douai on February 4th
Sete – Strasbourg on April 25th
Marseille broke Reims in the middle of the game. After the balanced first quarter (1:1), the LEN Euro Cup winner tightened its defense, while it netted 10 goals in a row for a huge 11:1 lead early in the fourth period.
Marseille is in the first place with 21 points, two more than 2nd-placed Pays d’Aix. Both teams have played eight games.
Pays d’Aix was the leader for most of the first half of the season, but Aix took just 4 points in the last three matches in 2019 and drop to 2nd place.
Only two matches of the 9th round were played.
Noisy-le-Sec beat Nice 13:7 to advance to the 3rd place.
1 Marseille 8 – 21
2 Pays d’Aix 8 – 19
3 Noisy-le-Sec 9 – 18
4 Tourcoing 8 – 15
5 Strasbourg 8 – 12
6 Montpellier 6 – 10
7 Nice 8 – 10
8 Reims 9 – 9
9 Douai 8 – 3
10 Sete 8 – 1
