UWhat a good slap in the face to get your thoughts back in place? For the big slap, the question is rather an affirmation in view of the large defeat of the Bayonnais on the Montpellier field this Saturday (42-10). Very (too?) comfortable in the top 6 before the meeting, with nine points ahead of the MHR, then 7th, Aviron now feels the breath of its pursuers in the back of its neck. A real disappointment after a match where almost everything went against the Basques.
“The analysis is not very difficult,” judged hooker Facundo Bosch. We were caught up in combat, and Rugby is first and foremost a combat sport. We were caught in the scrum, on carried balls, we were caught on the rucks… That’s it. If the eight in front don't do our job, it's complicated. »
“We were caught in the scrum, on the balls carried, on the rucks…”
The Rowing forwards are necessarily blameworthy given the quantity of balls scratched by the Montpellier residents, the six penalties whistled against the Bayonne scrum (for 19 in total), the yellow card received by the Bordelai pillar or the red came to spoil the very good match from Capilla. However, it was of course an error from Tiberghien, who was in great difficulty on the pitch at the GGL Stadium, that led to the first of six attempts in the locals' offensive festival.
“Rugby lesson”
Trailing 22-0 at the break, Grégory Patat's players had no illusions until a quarter of an hour after returning from the locker room, after a pure septist try from Capilla then a penalty from Lopez (22-10, 51st ). Before sinking at the end of the match and leaving the offensive bonus to the overexcited Héraultais. A far too poor performance, which punishes the two laborious victories obtained in Vannes (21-27) then against Castres (33-12). But the sky and white manager does not want to see any causality between the Montpellier defeat and the copies recently made by his team.
“We must not mix everything up,” Grégory Patat said. Every match is different, it's not due to the content of the weeks before. There was a great team from Montpellier which played to its strengths. We took a rugby lesson. They had been starting from the bottom of the rankings since the start of the season, they didn't want to go back there. »
A tail of the peloton where Perpignan, 12th, still appears. The Bayonnais have three weeks and two Challenge Cup matches before their trip to Aimé-Giral to demonstrate that the correction suffered in Montpellier was only an accident.
Montpellier 42 – Bayonne 10
Lieu Montpellier (GGL Stadium) Spectators 8 500 Arbitrator M. Rozier Half time 22-0
Montpellier 6 tries from Moorby (4th), Reinach (17th), Ulese (23rd), Ngandebe (71st), Hogg (74th) and Tolofua (79th); 3 Hogg transformations (17th, 23rd, 74th); 2 penalties from Hogg (8th, 66th).
The team Moorby – Ngandebe, Vincent, Serfontein (Cadot 41st), Bridge – (o) Hogg, (m) Reinach (Coly 21st, Simmonds 62nd) – Bécognée (Vunipola 73rd), Vunipola (Nouchi 57th), Camara (Tauleigne 73rd) – Dguid , Verhaeghe – Hounkpatin (Japaridze 55th), Ulese (Tolofua 73rd), Erdocio (Forletta 55th).
Bayonne 1 try from Capilla (41st); 1 transformation from Lopez (41st); 1 penalty from Lopez (50th).
Yellow card Brothel (21e). Red card Chapel (75e).
The team Tiberghien – Spring (Erbinartegaray 41st), Makala, Tuilagi, Carreras (Spring 77th) – (o) Lopez (Segonds 67th), (m) Rouet (Germain 60th) – Capilla, Cassiem (Bourdeau 52nd, Cassiem 64th), Habel-Küffner – Paulos (Poloniati 52e), Heguy – Tagi (Cotet 52nd), Bosch (Martin 52nd), Bordelai (Cormenier 38th).
Notes
5/10 Tuilagi, Maqala, Bosch, Tagi, Cormenier, Carreras.
4/10 Capilla, Spring, Erbinartegaray, Habel-Kuffner, Rouet, Cassiem, Lopez.
3/10 Cotet, Martin, Paulos, Poloniati, Heguy.
2/10 Bordelai, Tiberghien.
Not rated Bourdeau.