Top 14 – Midol’s opinion on Racing 92 – Usap: Nanterre was great

We missed it, this way of scripting rugby like a boxing match. We mourned them, these laser games giving the Nanterre theater the false air of a discotheque or the RnB song that makes the walls shake, as the players enter. Not that we hate the Duvauchelle stadium in Créteil and its old-fashioned charm. But it is only up to Paris-La Défense-Arena, in fact, to make a simple regular phase meeting so sacred. And what? Anyone who loves rugby for what it involves passing, running and dodging cannot remain indifferent to the spectacle presented nine times out of ten on this rugby field like no other in the world. Anyone who loves rugby for the perpetual twists and turns that it is capable of causing, and this Racing-Usap illustrated it perfectly, can only love Paris-La Défense-Arena, whose ultra-fast pitch and the playing conditions by Perfect nature is the breeding ground for the most beautiful powder magazines.

Last week, Ile-de-France captain Gaël Fickou even told us on this subject: “Paris-La Défense-Arena is the most beautiful infrastructure in Europe: the atmosphere is crazy, the lawn is great and the setting is magnificent. To be frank, the people of Créteil were adorable when welcoming us and lately, this stadium has been doing well but sincerely, the Duvauchelle lawn is made to support the weight of footballers (the enclosure usually hosts the Lusitanos de Créteil, residents of National 2, Editor's note) and We tend to sink into it; it slows the game down a lot, I feel.” It's not just an impression, comrade. And we say to ourselves, in this respect, that receiving Toulouse at the end of November on the thick Cristolean peat is perhaps not the worst thing that could happen to these Racingmen, certainly winners of the Usap but still not reassured, as for at their core…