Of course, this victory has a special flavor after Marseille’s rout in the final against a very limping UBB which today has found its means but the main thing remains to be done, find Toulouse in the final and win.
This meeting against Stade Toulousain started at a very high pace from the first moments showing that the explanation was going to be tough and surely exciting to follow because there was revenge in the air for the Bordeaux-Béglais wanting above all to make people forget their very poor exit from the final. We must appreciate this victory at its true value which demonstrates that the UBB can impose itself on any external terrain when it has its full squad by implementing strategies adapted to the opponent such as being able to have two complete second lines to fight against the presence of a Meafou among their evening opponent. We risk seeing the same strategy against La Rochelle to control the presence of Skelton who still remains a problem but given the pace and intensity of the matches a player can hardly last eighty minutes at his best level. The solution paid off because at the end of the match the defense, despite the heavy blows, held on, displaying more physical freshness in the final moments. The handful of Bordedais who had followed his team had a few bursts of tension at the end of the game without any particular incident, finding a perky breathing after the final whistle where Mr Trainini did not play the penalty awarded to the Bordelo -Buttery.
- Gazzotti and Bielle-Biarrey
This game had the feel of a thriller with the Toulouse team opening the scoring with this yellow card received by Boniface in the sixth minute and a minute later it was KInghorn who scored for the Toulouse team, suggesting a game that would not necessarily be easy for them. visitors who did not expect to be greeted with wreaths of roses. With the transformation of Ramos the UBB found itself trailing seven to zero in the eighth minute but we will not have to wait too long to see Jalibert fuel the score of the visitors who in three minutes will get their hands on the match with the ei of LBB from the nineteenth minute and three minutes after that of Lucu served by the same LBB and Jalibert transforms neither the first nor the second, leaving the teams with the score of thirteen to seven at half-time because the defenses will be intractable. The second half was a long attempt for Stade Toulousain to regain the advantage and only Mauvaka managed to enrich the score with a new try, the still unconverted in the seventieth minute a few minutes earlier Reybier had almost killed the match but having put the toe of the shoe on the line the try was not validated and will only be entitled to the fabulous penalty succeeded by Garcia increasing the score forcing the Stadium to score a try to win the match. This is how the Bordeaux-Béglais managed to keep the score thanks to an intractable defense.
- Depoortere
The UBB on its field will meet this Saturday with Bayonne which had given it a hard time last season but which got out of trouble at the last minute against Montpellier last week only being saved by the transformation of Segonds in the last minute but we should not stick to this simple analysis because it actually seems that Bayonne had an excellent first half and that the team can annoy any opponent given their squad. UBB should not be lulled by success against Toulouse because each match has its own truth. Now we will have to ensure to keep the lead in the ranking shared on points with Toulouse and Toulon because each match will be a test to stay at the top of the table, the misstep is no longer allowed. To build this team which will host Bayonne, the staff once again calls on Gray who gives excellent reasons for having recruited him associated with Cazeaux in the second line. Gazzotti finds the center of the third line. We are witnessing the return of Buros at the back, Uberti making up for the absence of Penaud and the center pair is made up of Depoortere and Tapuai. This is how for this match we find:
starting XV: 1-Perchaud, 2-Lamothe, 3-Sadie, 4-Gray, 5-Cazeaux, 6-Diabi, 7-Matthew, 8-Gazzotti, 9-Lucu, 10-Jalibert, 11-Bielle-Biarrey, 12 -Tapuai, 13-Depoortere, 14-Uberti,15-Buros
Finisseurs : 16-Latterrade, 17-Boniface, 18-Bochaton,19-Tatafu, 20-Lesgourgues, 21-Garcia, 22- Janse Van Rensburg, 23-Falatea ;
UBB vs Aviron Bayonnais
Saturday February 5 at 5:05 p.m.
Chaban-Delmas Stadium
Bordeaux
Canal+ live 2
ARL(96.2), France Bleu Gironde(100.1), Sud Radio (106.0) multiplex
your favorite screens: Casey’s Pub, Chez le Pépère, The Connemara Irish Pub
