Montpellier is preparing to take up a huge challenge this Saturday against the Toulouse stadium as part of the 15th day of Top 14. After spending 80 points in Leicester in Champions Cup, The red and black are in full confidence. What worry Anthony Bouthier, the back of the MHR, which measures the magnitude of the task in Ernest-Wallon.
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“If we watch them play …”
Aware of the stratospheric level of Toulousains, Bouthier does not veil his face via RMC: “80 points, it's scary. But we have no choice anyway. From the end of their match against Leicester, we woke up to exist there.”
The message is clear: no question of undergoing. The Montpellier rear insists on the desire to show another face against the champions of France in title. “If we watch them play … it's good when you're on the sofa, but when you're in front of them, it's not the same thing.”
Toulouse, a well -oiled machine
For his part, Benoît Paillaugue, coach of the MHR attack, does not hide his respect for the Toulouse Ogre. “We know them by heart, but they will always surprise us. It's the best team in the world.”
The former scrum half knows that the slightest error will pay cash : “If you turn your head, it can go very, very quickly. If you are not alert against them, you pick up, it's simple.”
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A huge challenge for Montpellier
Faced with a Toulouse stadium in great shape, Even with some brand absent like Antoine DupontRamos or Cros, Montpellier will have to display a concentration at all times.
Paillaugue warns: “You pick up with their team 1, 2 or 3. It's Toulouse.” One way to remember that whatever the players aligned, Toulouse philosophy remains the same.
SATURDAY, Cists will therefore have to be up to the task If they want to exist in front of a team that makes no gifts, especially in its lair of Ernest-Wallon.
