Amorphous for almost fifty minutes, the Racingmen almost collapsed in Glasgow. But a reaction of pride and the entry of replacements saved them.
For almost fifty minutes, we wondered what the Racingmen had come to do in Glasgow. And don’t see any gratuitous malice in this statement. It’s just that at half-time, the Ile-de-France residents showed particularly worrying statistics, including 55% tackle success, 25 missed tackles, and already eight net crossings in favor of the Glasgow Warriors. Was it a lack of commitment? In part, most certainly. Because the Racingmen were simply punished in each of the rucks they contested.
So of course, we must recognize that on paper, the third line Zinzen-Baudonne-Diallo did not weigh heavily compared to that of Glasgow and an infernal trio formed by Mr. Fagerson, Mann (revelation of the evening, which should not not be far from the XV du Chardon) and Darge. But the other explanation is that the game was simply going too fast for the Racingmen: “In the first half, we didn’t expect it to go so quickly, for them to play so much. We had seen that they were going to restart from their camp and on the first kick-off we were still surprised. We were perhaps surprised by the speed they had, the desire they had to play, to hold the ball”directly recognized second row Boris Palu.
A reaction that saves
The proof is that the Warriors only took three minutes to score the first try of the match. A breakthrough (the first in a long series) from Sione Tuipulotu full center and a service for scrum half George Horne. A test which announced the ordeal that the entire Ile-de-France attack line would experience, like the Chavancy-Tedder pair (7 missed tackles for the first city) or even Antoine Gibert (5), who must still having nightmares of Sione Tuipulotu rushing towards him. The Racingmen’s ordeal thus lasted for fifty minutes, until the staff tried a poker game by throwing in six substitutes at once, including five forwards (Dayimani, Taofifenua, Escobar, Ben Arous, Mazikobu and Idrissi). , provoking a strong reaction from the audience at Scotsoun Stadium: “We wanted to create an electroshockassistant coach Frédéric Michalak confirmed to us after the meeting, because we saw that we were not taking advantage of our rare opportunities. apart from Habosi who won his duels, we were dominated in the air and in conquest. The coaching in the second half with the entry of “Tao”, Hacjivah and the others did really good. I think it gave the team some energy. » This is how Racing, finally awake and combative, decided to keep the ball to make the Warriors suffer on the advantage line. By scoring two tries at the end of the match, the Racingmen were only one away from achieving a double bonus which, let’s face it, seemed totally improbable at half-time…
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