the essential
The Albigensians enter the fray in this Lord Derby Cup, in Palau tomorrow. Favorites, they hope to maintain their good momentum at the end of 2024.
It is among the 4th in Elite 2 that the Tigers will have to fight to reach the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France. By avoiding any excess, both optimism and pessimism, the obstacle does not seem insurmountable for the Albigensians. Of course, the confectioners’ truce has passed, but we know the Orange and Black are serious enough, sure of their strength, not to go off the rails. The performance on December 21 provided a solid illustration of a reassuring level of performance. “We lost important elements in the off-season, and it takes time to put in place new automatisms,” repeats, rightly, Fabien Denis, the assistant coach.
In this regard, we were able to measure the tranquility brought by a boy like Mickaël Goudemand, the formidable example given by Chase Bernard, probably transcended by his captain’s stripes, and the explosion of the will-o’-the-wisp Rostang, whose match was ” a cape, a peak, a peninsula. There are days like this when players have grace, and Maxime Rostang put out a benchmark match that evening, of a very high standard.
Satisfaction et prudence
As the team made very few mistakes and the 17 players fed the channels for 80 minutes, thereby offering several alternatives capable of luring the opponent, we can look forward to the second half of the season with confidence. . Faced with this chorus of satisfaction, the coach always tempers, and he is right: “If we were to not respect our rugby, the field would come and remind us.”
We nevertheless believe, despite the fact that few injured players will reinforce a somewhat strained squad, apart from the probable return of Ben Shea, that the Tigers will have enough claws to control their hosts of the day.
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