Author, against Stade Montois, of his ninth and tenth tries of the season, Dax’s three-quarter wing, Jope Naseara, was one of the major players in the success of the USD in this Landes derby.
And in the end, Dax wins. As in the first leg (26-22), the red and white club emerged victorious in the Landes derby (13-18) and thanks to this victory, the USD is only two games away from achieving what no promoted player has managed to qualify for the final phase of the championship so far.
If Dax won, at the Guy and André Boniface stadium, Friday evening, in front of 12,500 people and in the rain, it is above all because the red and white melee put the local pack through torture. Marc Dal Maso’s protégés were dominant in this sector and the efforts of the red and white forwards, coupled with great defensive solidarity when the Mons offensives followed one another, allowed Jean-Baptiste Barrère’s gang to race in leading a large part of the match.
Cerisier: “We try to give him good balls”
Then, the USD won because it has, in its ranks, a Fijian bomb, anThe Dacquois were pragmatic. They have a supersonic winger, who was successful in the first half. They enter our camp three times and score twice.” Naseara’s first try took place after nine minutes of play. Well served by Hugo Cerisier, author of a good match, the number eleven accelerated on the left flank before resisting the return of Semi Lagilava and diving into the -aim.
Just before the break, Naseara did it again. Still on the left wing, he called Théo Duprat, who raised his head, took a judicious kick to follow, which he recovered 35 meters from the goal. The following ? The Fijian continued on foot, bypassed Patricio Fernandez and ran ahead of Lagilava, to score a double. “We try to give him good balls so that he is in the best conditions, said, at the final whistle, the opener Hugo Cerisier. It’s something we work on all week. I hope he continues like this, it’s all a bonus for us.”
Dubois: “It’s going to explode even more”
In recent weeks, the Fijian has had a string of solid performances and in two and a half months, the winger has scored nine tries. “At the start of the season, we felt that he had qualities, but he had a time of adaptationexplained Jean-Baptiste Barrère on the night of Mont-de-Marsan. There was the language barrier. Ilikena Bolakoro helps him a lot. It clicked when he saw that Junior (Ratu Nacika, Editor’s note) was playing and putting together good matches. He got into it and he wasn’t the same player anymore.”
Unknown to the general public before this year, the 21-year-old is making a name for himself in the small world of Pro D2. “He’s a young playerrecalls his manager, Jeff Dubois. He’s one of the few who played a series of matches at the start of the season, because these players need to continue, need to have playing time. He still needs to work, but he’s going to explode even more. He has a bright future. Next year, he will cross the field with every ball.”Always with the Dax jersey, since the Landes club succeeded in a very good operation this week, by extending its gem until 2027…
