The pillar of the UBB savor this first historic final in Champions Cup. But he also argues that his team must retain the lessons of the past and routs it in the top 14 final last year.
Arnaud Coudry Special Envoy in Bordeaux
A first historic final
Jefferson Poirot : “We have a final arriving and I think we had a negative experience last year, in our first final in the history of the club. So we still remain quite measured. But what a pleasure and what a fight, because it is still the outgoing European champion. It was a difficult match, hit. It’s good to win this type of match. ”
What made the difference?
“We played the blows, we did not denied ourselves in our rugby, we defended when it was necessary to defend. I think we were mainly constant throughout the match, which has happened to us this season. We often had matches with air holes, like against Ulster in eighth set the munster in quarters. We have huge air holes where we let them come back. We had these phases a lot where we had ten minutes where the opponent returned, there we could have had it on numerical inferiority. But we did not fall for it and we managed to, in a weak time, limit the breakage. ”
-The forwards set the record straight
“When we play Jack Willis, Julien Marchand, Emmanuel Meafou, François Cros … I think I can quote almost their entire pack. When you play a team like that, if you are not ready on the ground, it’s very complicated. It is true that we had made an appointment on it and it succeeded rather well because it was precisely the speed of our rucks that helped us be able to play the blows thoroughly. (A little revenge?) No, we prefer to leave it to journalists to say that we are bad in front, so the adversaries will not be wary of us. I heard a sentence that says that we are not good in the appointments that count. And there, today, it’s a meeting that counts. So it is true that it was important for us to validate this match. ”
Lessons selected from the past
“We learned that you have to be constant the whole match. That in front of a team like the Toulouse stadium, if you have an air hole of 10-20 minutes, you can take 30 … The lessons that we have learned from past matches are this consistency. Whether it was the team that started, like the inbounds, there is a match that is regular, which rises in intensity, in power, with a low time management of 10 minutes when we are pretty good. So, it’s true that it is a satisfaction anyway on this match.
Do not ignite after a semi-final
“We had experience in the same stadium where we were very happy to have won in half against the Stade Français last year. Seven days later, we have marked history, but in the wrong direction, with the heaviest defeat in history in the top 14 final. So today, we are not going to ignite. We’re going to regenerate too, because once once, it was a very hard match. We also rebound on the Top 14, where we are in the fight with Toulon, which is very strong. And we know that avoiding a place in the dam is very important. There are lots of small goals in our season which should be quickly returned to reality. ”
