MEven in Bayonne, Dax remains master of the Landes. In a one-sided derby, the sub-prefecture club signed its third victory in as many matches (since its return to Pro D2) against its best enemy. In the red and white ranks, the fear of the apprehension of the event relocated to Jean-Dauger, expressed on D-1, seemed to have all dissipated. The Montois, taken strategically, never seemed capable of overthrowing the Dacquois, finally like at home. Never in the history of Pro D2 has Dax beaten his neighbor with such a gap.
US Dax gradually took control of the match after a frightening start (restart in the in-goal, forward). “An action that I really appreciated because it set the tempo,” judges manager Jeff Dubois a posteriori. His players then took advantage of an error by the Mons alignment, on a touch within the five yellow and black meters (jumper lobbed by the throw) to mark their territory (10-3, 20e). “We are at home”, chanted the Dacques public in the wake of the second test of the season of the indispensable second row Jean-Baptiste Singer, registered in force and after a few chiseling sequences.
Adaptability
It was also the result of strategic stubbornness on the part of the weekend's locals and in particular their opener Romuald Séguy, who took the Montois at their own game in the occupation, and behind their backs. “We didn't want to get into a game of constant restarts, we also wanted to go to them, show our quality in this sector of the game. We proved that we could adapt,” greets winger Théo Gatelier.
Caught in this turf war, Stade Montois was also beaten in the ground game, in which the USD can definitively say it is an expert (6.4 balls scratched per match, best total in the championship). While the Fijian winger Jope Naseara, served on a platter by his center Noah Nene, had just detached the Dacquois with the score (17-3, 27e), the increasingly heavy yellow and black threat was more than repelled by a saving scratch from Captain Jean-Baptiste Barrère.
The Montois' consecutive errors (direct hit from Darquier, penalty played too quickly by Wakaya) were the symbols of the day's ineffectiveness. This certainly did not benefit from the red card, dealt to the freshly incoming Fortuin upon returning from the locker room (high tackle, 53e). “I don’t know if he’s helping us,” Jeff Dubois said. It has, in any case and paradoxically, inflated the Stadists, authors of an essay a few minutes later (Iashagashvili, 58e). This was before Noah Nene, already involved in Jope Naseara's essay, burst onto the screen.
The Nene flyover
During his rush of more than fifty meters, the young three-quarter center (20 years old) on loan from Stade Français, beat seven defenders, using the goose step and the racket to the amazement of Jean-Dauger Landais. “The words of Laurent Labit (the Stade Français coach who came to supervise him this week, Editor’s note) made sense and I think I took up the challenge. » This third Dacquois try, scored seven minutes from the end, had the gift of rekindling the flame of the offensive bonus, which the Dacquois would never have believed possible, before kick-off.
Fullback Théo Duprat, who entered at the end of the match, was responsible for validating the five points of this successful and remote evening. This allowed the Dacquois to breathe in the ranking (8e26 pts). Jeff Dubois is jubilant: “It’s a big sigh of relief.”
