Qualified for the CUP challenge final after having dismissed Racing 92, the Lou offers a particularly exciting end of the season.
2025 after 2022? On May 24, Lyon will play the CUP challenge final against Bath. Three years after its success in this competition, the Lou can reissue. One possibility that the Rhodanians owe their success in the semi-finals against Racing 92. Long abused by Ile-de-France, the Lyon club was able to support the accelerator in the second period to fly away. 29-15 Final score and 19 points signed by the Boot of Léo Berdeu: everything is fine for the men of Karim Ghezal.
“It’s great, we are where we wanted to be at the start of the season”explained the Lyonnais captain, Baptiste Couilloud, at a press conference. “The challenge is a goal that we had checked. We come back from afar because in mid-season, we were thirties of the championship and pensions above all to the maintenance. Today, we are therefore very happy to be able to relive a moment similar to 2022. ”
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The arrival of Karim Ghezal has changed everything
Baptiste Couilloud says it: Lyon is coming back from far this season. The arrival on the bench of Karim Ghezal has clearly changed everything during the season, offering a new breath to the Lou … which is now an ambitious. Eighths of the Top 14 and therefore in the running for a place in the final phase, the tenants of Gerland will live a busy month of May, but oh so exciting.
“If in December, we had been allowed to imagine that, we could not have believed it, frankly”underlines Baptiste Couilloud. “We are in the race in the championship and in the European Cup final. The dynamics are positive. Having doubted a part of the year adds emotion. As for the final, we will have time to think about it but Bath has dominated the English championship since the start of the season. In Cardiff, we will therefore be the hunting team. » That’s good: the Lou is never as dangerous as when he is a hunter.
