US Tours emerges as leader in Auray

Auray: 5
US Tours : 28

“Brittany wins you! » The people of Tours can take up this advertising slogan as their own. Winners in Saint-Malo a week ago, they won this Sunday, December 22 at the bottom of the league, snatching the offensive bonus at the end of added time.

They owe this additional point to the Alrean desire to play until the end; Régis Loubéry's players were blocked in the opposing 22m, while regulation time was well over.

Guilloux: “We are in the nails”

Argued on a false rhythm and on heavy ground, the debates never reached the summits. Bertrand Guilloux, the visiting coach, was aware of this: “Compared to last weekend, we had another problem to resolve. That of the field and of a defensively aggressive opponent, who never gave up. We were able to solve it collectively. We tried a lot to launch the game. There was some waste. But in the end, we move forward. We are in the nails. If Brittany has a strong identity, we are in the process of building ours. »

The Alreans had started the meeting well. On a move offshore, initiated by Morgan Murcia, captain Jamgotchiam thus defeated the mark (5-0, 8^e). The public, always numerous, began to hope.

But the UST, with a well-oiled collective game, put the machine into motion. Thanks to the boot of Frauciel (5-3, 14^e) and a transformed try of the latter (5-10, 24^e), the visitors took the lead at the pose. They dampened Morbihan's hopes after returning from the locker room with a full-axis try from De Lauzon (5-18, 41^e). Tours no longer loosened his grip. Auray defended tooth and nail, without managing to be dangerous offensively.

A fourth try in added time

Coach Loubéry was lucid about the quality of the Touraine rival: “Last Sunday against Plaisir, we left a lot of rubber. Today, we still had a lot of energy left in the first half. Logically, faced with such a perfectly structured team, we give up physically. »

Rear Lemaître (5-23, 60^e) thus logically concretized the domination of Tours, before Delai (5-28, 80^e + 4') does not enter the 4^e UST test in a totally uncovered local defense. The strongest won.

Former RC Vannes player, Lei Bolenaialu, 3^e visitor line, was delighted in more than one way: “It’s a good Sunday. We come home with 5 points. I'm glad to have seen old players and friends again (Vola, Leafa…) ».

Half time: 5-13.
Referee: Mr. Birch.
Auray: 1E Jamgotchiam (8^e).
US Tours : 4E Frauciel (24^e), From Lauzon (41^e), Lemaître (60^e), Delay (80^e + 4); 1T Frauciel (24^e) ; 2P Frauciel (14^e32^e).