SU Agen falls with arms in hand against Stade Toulousain

SU Agen 8 – Stade Toulousain 21

Lieu Agen (synthetic from Armandie).
Spectators 400 environ.
Arbitrator Aurélien Laloo (Nouvelle-Aquitaine).
Half time 3-14.
YOUR Agency
1 try (41st) from Jean; 1 penalty (3rd) from Aurich.
The team: Jean – Boulan, Bonavita, Randle, Auricth – (o) Cummins, (m) Lucchini – Serieyssol (cap.), Du Preez, Boutanne – Karram, Nehring – Paganotto, Ouldji, Koteureu. Sont entrés en jeu: Beffara, Hoarau, Teunissen, Vidal, Goujard, Lavie, Delom, Everaert.
Toulouse Stadium
3 tries from Bertrand (31st, 45th), Gil (40th); 3 Delpy transformations.
The team: Alary – Nemor, Bondi, Vigneres, Gil – (o) Delpy, (m) Llaveria – Jouanny, Tolofua, Marzullo – Condon, Portat (cap.) – Dauguet, Caublot, Bertrand. They came into play: Segard, Agati, Tehoiri, Moreau, Ibres, Berges, Richardis, Fenuafanote/

Infuriating. Some Agenais even had tears in their eyes as the feat was within their reach, this Saturday, against a Stade Toulousain accustomed to beating the Espoirs Élite. With an 8-21 at the final whistle, without even the defensive bonus which would have been well deserved, this “encouraging” setback still left Agen manager Julien Guiard with a lot of regrets. “The regrets are being at 0 points because in the scenario of the match, we can hope to be at 1 point. Not everything is bad, but in accounting terms, it’s like we took 50.”

Facing the Haut-Garonnais who, for some of them like the opener Valentin Delpy, had compared with the Rochelais of Top 14 a few weeks ago, the SUA of captain Enzo Serieyssol was able to raise its level of play .

Agen plays the game

From hooker to back, the famous backbone aligned by the trio Guiard-Campan-Garcia did better than cause problems for his opponent. She took the score (3-0, 3^e) and the game on its own. As a result, the Toulouse residents multiplied their approximations and hand errors.

David Mélé's team took more than 30 minutes before scoring its first points (3-7, 31^e) and drive the nail in (3-14, 40^e). Two essays “offered” by Agen. “We can't go out at 14-3 at halftime having had so much possession and taking two 80-meter counterattacks, that puts us in it,” emphasized Julien Guiard. We can't bring that up against Toulouse. Maybe against other teams that were a little less surgical and less deadly, we could have gotten away with it. »

Hopes for maintaining

Because the charges of Ouldji at the heel or Randle in the center, the animation of the Lucchini-Cummins hinge and the security provided by Jean at the back (author of the Agenais essay at the restart, 8-14, 41^e) had enough to offer some hope for another outcome. But the wasted ammunition during the hour of play and the failure on goal (9 points left on the way) sealed the fate of the game. “Our inaccuracies and our indiscipline cannot allow us to win. We must salute the state of mind and the fact that some boys have clearly raised their level, concluded the Agen manager. Overall, the team has made progress since the 2025 restart and this should maintain the hope of achieving results to remain in the Elite group. »

The Agenais group will have time to work during the international break which will see them resume on February 15 at Racing.

Truce

International. Dylan Noudofinin-Cazemajou, called last week to join the French XV U20 group to prepare for the 6 Nations Tournament in the category, was not on the match sheet this Saturday. The 18-year-old winger was suffering from ankle ligaments and was awaiting the results of medical examinations this Saturday evening to find out if he could travel to Marcoussis on Monday.