Montpellier still convalescing, the MHR won a very precious victory against the promoted team. And to do this, he was able to count on his English recruit Billy Vunipola.
When the penultimate team in a championship prepares to welcome its pursuer and huge threatening clouds gather above its stadium to announce a real deluge, this team must know who it can count on to emerge victorious from this quagmire. This team was the MHR last Saturday, when they received the promoted Vannetais with whom they had the same number of points in the standings (6) before the meeting.
It is in this kind of hostile and oppressive context that some Cists stood up and took their responsibilities. When we mention this word, we immediately think of Léo Coly, who did not tremble at the end of the game when it was necessary to pass two more than delicate penalties, because they were placed on the cross forty meters to the left of the posts. Despite the pouring rain and a slippery ball, Coly adjusted a brilliant shot, which hit his target right in the heart. In this quagmire and facing an opponent who risks disturbing more than one this season, men were also needed to find progress. And Billy Vunipola was one of them.
“More fit than I have been in the last two years”
The one who has so often experienced victory with his XV de la Rose and his Saracens has signed up with a club in reconstruction, and which is chasing points. But that doesn’t bother him in the least: “This might surprise you, but I love it. Because I think it brings out the best in me. I hope it helps the team. The pressure of having to perform every week is good for Me.” Author of a full match, carrying the ball without ever weakening for 80 minutes, the Englishman seemed to us to be in a form that we had not seen him in for a long time: “I’m not the only one who worked physically. The whole team prepared very hard in pre-season. What’s frustrating is that it doesn’t show on the pitch yet. Today, we We have had glimpses when we play in the right areas, when we give our all. We can score tries like Wilfrid, who was the first to do so, but we need to see more. “As far as I’m concerned, I’m probably fitter than I’ve ever been in the last two or three years. It’s not my previous club, it’s me.” Before its arrival in Hérault, we readily admit that we doubted the performance of the former tank of the XV de la Rose. But if the pressure transfigures this war machine which only asks to roar again, then we say to ourselves that it could be the very good pick of the MHR…
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