St-Paul Sports Rugby (12e/11 pts) – US Casteljaloux (3e/45 pts)
US CASTELJALOUX The team: Laclotte – Daré, Simple, Lanzutti, Rochelli – (o) Fourteau, (m) Ligneau – Ghirard, Vincent, Rank – Rossi, Mijoint (cap.) – Lambrot, El Khaiter, Mekatel. Substitutes: Bouges, Saubié, Espagnet, Faugères, Tauron, Barès, Lamothe.
Lieu Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (municipal stadium). Arbitrator Mr. Julien Degorce (Nouvelle-Aquitaine). Hourly This Sunday at 3:15 p.m.
Certainly, the Cadets de Gascogne start as heavy favorites against Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, but there is no question for them of despising the opponent, the red lantern of the group since the start of the championship hostilities. The respect for the opponent and the modesty which characterize the men of Benoît Cazautets and Anthony Saint-Loubet were surely the key words in preparing for the match.
Especially since the last performance of the Saint-Paulois did not go unnoticed by Lirac, since the Landais offered themselves, during the 13e day, not later than a little more than a fortnight ago, the scalp of the Pyrenees of Aramits-Asap (24-20), on 9e of the hen and not really the easiest to “handle”. However fragile it may have been, this success for Saint-Paulois surely calls for others and in any case reveals a remarkable state of mind among the boys who had until then only known defeats in thirteen matches.
-Demobilization prohibited
The men of the “Bernard duo”, Maurel and Téjada, are on a slope that it is not an exaggeration to describe as ascending. Their last performance against Mouguerre, a well-ranked player in the group, was rather well accomplished and described as convincing, despite a certain relative ineffectiveness in the second half, surely attributable to the fact that Casteljaloux led by around twenty points at the break.
For the Landes expedition, the Cadets will be without hooker Logan Lustenberger who is suffering from a knee, while the off-season recruit from Sainte-Bazeille, Maxime Faugères, joins the group. Otherwise, the team will still rely on its power in the scrum and the desires of its attackers, as Bernard Téjada expressed again this Friday: “We are going to Saint-Paul-lès-Dax to bring back victory. And if that is the case, which I hope, we will have had a good sequence. We will then have to approach the match against Rion-Morcenx well and new perspectives will surely open up to us…”
