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In search of consistency and confidence. The double French champion, beaten in the derby in Castres on Saturday October 5 (28-23), fails to find continuity, both in his game and in his performances.
Two slaps a week apart. And a Stade Toulousain in its place. She’s not so bad, in the top 6, just one victory from the lead, but inevitably raises some eyebrows in the “red and black” ranks, where the current performances are quite far from the expected standards. Because after having achieved “an almost perfect first half” as Paul Graou admitted, fired with a comfortable margin at rest (+9) and had the possibility of widening the gap from the restart, the Stadium lost the thread and missed, in Castres, a great opportunity to erase the defeat conceded at home against Bordeaux-Bègles.
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With a turning point clearly identified upon returning from the locker room, where the Toulouse team played the knockout more than the break by refusing three easy points to score at least five. Faced with a revitalized Tarnais and much more precise in the ground game, the attempt was not as successful as in the first period when Peato Mauvaka made a good carried ball.
“We are not pretentious”
“The return from half-time hurts us, confirms Rodrigue Neti. We are starting to foil a little. We have a penalty under the posts where instead of going into touch, the logic is to take the points. We are caught in euphoria but if you score, that’s beneficial too.”
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“Everyone tells us that we are pretentious but we are not pretentious, Mola defends himself regarding possible excess of confidence. Thomas Ramos, we show him the posts, he does not want to take them. We are going touch, we are not far from scoring, there is a penalty against us These are the facts of the game but it is true that today, our choices which were absolutely relevant last season are relevant. not great this season. We’re going to keep our heads down, we’re not going to reason too much.”
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And the manager, who recognizes that his players “pedaled a little off the bike” in the second half, rails: “Everyone talks to us about what we were, but the important thing is what “We are going to become. And for the moment, what we have been does not nourish us enough to become a team that plays the leading roles in the championship.”
“This will set the record straight for us.”
To prepare for the Clermont reception on Saturday, the atmosphere at Ernest-Wallon this week is likely to be particularly studious and not really relaxed. “To be honest, we spent a tense week because we lost at home against Bordeaux,” admitted Neti on Saturday evening. “Yes, we are in our place and I hope that there will not only be the staff who will be angry at these two defeats in a row It’s been a long time since this happened to us (last season, in Perpignan then Bordeaux-Bègles, Editor’s note), I think this will set us straight. on time and I hope that we will have an awareness in the group to say that we must move forward, rework and start with simple things.”
