No doubt an indication that this match counts, more than the others, in the start of the Aviron Bayonnais season. Manu Tuilagi and Mateo Carreras will start the match on the lawn of the Anoeta stadium this Saturday, October 12 against La Rochelle, as part of the 6th day of Top 14. The first, whose hand was broken in a friendly match during the derby in Biarritzhad been champing at the bit for several weeks. These are the great debuts of the English international with 60 caps (33 years old) who arrived this summer on the banks of Nive. He will be associated with Sireli Maqala in the center of the Basque attack.
“Manu is a sunny guy and he brings all his expertise in Rugby, in training, and all his physicality. Even if he is perhaps only at 50% for the moment. We can’t wait to see him really compete and what he will bring to the team Today, Manu will not have the 80 minutes in his legs, so we will try to use him. good idea so that he brings us his know-how and that we also support him in the best possible way for his premiere”explains his manager Grégory Patat.
Mateo Carreras holder
Up front, Grégory Patat and his staff should make three changes. Swan Cormenier positioned on the left and Tevita Tatafu on the right of the first row. Esteban Capilla should be offered his first home startwhat he admitted he was looking for after the match against Bordeaux. “I was keen to claim a start at home, at Anoeta or at Jean-Dauger.” A successful bet for the former sevens international. Uzair Cassiem will officiate in the center of the third line when Giovanni Habbel-Kuffner will complete the third line.
Behind, the Machenaud-Segonds hinge should be renewed. Guillaume Rouet will not be on the trip to “San Se”, injured in his hamstrings. Neither did Federico Mori, after an alert in his adductors. On the wing, Mateo Carreras will return as a starter after playing in the Rugby Championship with his Argentina selection, where he started six times (for two tries). The rest of the triangle will be made up of Aurélien Callandret and Cheikh Tiberghien who returns with the “15” on his back. Along the field, outside the group, Pieter Scholtz, Denis Marchois, Lucas Martin and Aitor Hourcade were also training.
Probable composition of Aviron Bayonnais
1- Swan CORMENIER; 2- Facundo BOSCH; 3- Tevita TATAFU
4- Arthur ITURRIA; 5- Luke Paulus
6- Giovanni HABEL-KUFFNER ; 8- Uzair CASSIEM ; 7- Esteban CAPILLA
9- Maxim MACHENAUD ; 10- Joris SEGONDS
11- Mateo Carreras; 12- Manu Tuilagi; 13- Sireli MAQALA; 14- Aurelien Callandret
15- Cheikh TIBERGHIEN
Substitutes: 16- Vincent GIUDICELLI ; 17- Andy BORDELAI ; 18- Alex MOON ; 19- Baptiste CHOUZENOUX ; 20- Baptiste GERMAIN ; 21- Camille LOPEZ ; 22- Guillaume MARTOCQ ; 23- Luke TAGI.
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