Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Friday September 20, 2024 at 8:45 p.m.
Toulouse’s trip to Montpellier on Saturday afternoon (2:30 p.m.) for the 3rd day of the Top 14 will mark the big return of Anthony Jelonch, who has been absent since last January. The international third-row wing will be on the bench against MHR.
Anthony Jelonch is back, but for real this time. Last weekend, the French international third row from Toulouse, seriously injured again and absent since last January, had returned to the competition in a way. However, if he had been part of the expanded group of thirty players to host La Rochelle in the shock of the 2nd day of the Top 14, the big absentee from the start of the season had once again not been part of the final group. His big return, on the field, had therefore been postponed again. Nevertheless, there was no doubt that he was looming large. After having been patient for another week, Jelonch finally did not have to wait any longer. This Saturday, Toulouse’s trip to Hérault to face Montpellier at 2:30 p.m. for the 3rd day will indeed see the native of Vic-Fezensac resume rugby in an official match.
The bench to start
Of course, the number 8 will not be a starter (he should be soon). On the other hand, his presence on the bench, announced Friday by Toulouse coach Ugo Mola, ensures that he will come into play, probably in the second half to take over from Léo Banos, Jack Willis or the last of the Ntamack siblings: Théo, who will be lined up at kick-off in the third row against MHR. Jelonch will thus definitively turn his back on these eight months away from the field again. Less than a year after a serious injury to his left knee that had almost deprived him of the World Cup in France, the unfortunate Toulousain had seriously injured himself again, this time to his right knee (again a ruptured cruciate ligament). And if he was finally able to participate in the World Cup, he had on the other hand had to immediately give up the Six Nations Tournament. “I feel like I’m ready,” confided the Rouge et Noir’s third row three weeks ago. He will have the opportunity to prove it on Saturday.
Stade Toulousain’s starting XV against Montpellier:
Kinghorn – Capuozzo, Delibes, Barassi, Lebel – (o) Ramos (cap), (m) Saito – T.Ntamack, Willis, Banos – Meafou, Arnold – Ainu’u, Cramont, Neti
Replacements: Mauvaka or Lacombre, Reilhes, Vergé, Flament, Jelonch, Graou, Costes, Merkler
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