The UBB, which had moved to Auvergne with intentions, was quickly brought back to earth by a more determined and realistic ASM. Despite everything, she returned to Gironde with a point thanks to a late match where she scored twice through Maxime Lamothe and Temo Matiu. She temporarily joins Toulouse at the top of the ranking but she is capable of doing much better. Check out the post-match interviews.
Yannick Bru, manager of UBB
We knew that to win here, we had to play a very high level match. We give the first three attempts. That's not high level. Despite everything we leave with the defensive bonus. It's a lesser evil given the possession we had. We could have broken down. We will be satisfied with this point. We had a generous match but far from our objectives. We had a lack of realism in the scoring areas, we made individual errors but we did not let ourselves get carried away into depression. Maybe this point will matter. There are a number of things that we have not mastered well in key moments. We lacked collective automatisms, that's certain. Our best sequence comes on the last action. There was a lack of complicity. We have a very significant margin for progress. The overall rendering is too average. We have a positive result, particularly at home, away from home, we are on orange alert. We have a prestigious away victory but we only have one. We will have to ask ourselves the right questions.
“You have to agree with what you say to yourself during the week”
Maxime Lucu, UBB scrum half
These are small details, we knew we were going to have a lot of pressure. We made small mistakes. Defensively, we give them three easy tries. In these circumstances it is difficult to exist even if with the state of mind, we bring back a defensive bonus point. We never exceeded three periods of play, we kept them in the rhythm all the time. We know that we are expected, we have complicated starts to the match, we talked about it. We have to agree with what we say to ourselves during the week but we can't correct it. You give confidence to the opposing team and it's difficult to come back afterwards.
Connor Sa, UBB hooker
As in La Rochelle, they start very strongly. It was complicated to put things in place. We played very strong opponents at home. It's like when the teams come to Bordeaux. It's complicated to come and hit us at our place. It's frustrating because we get in the way, we make mistakes that we shouldn't make. Afterwards, we still take a point here.
Joris Jurand, ASM wing
The watchword today was to show heart, to be forgiven for our defeats away from home. We played a great team today even though they were handicapped. We produced some good rugby. We continued with performances where we were not satisfied with our game. There we were realistic in the scoring zone, we are starting to find ourselves. It's up to us to pay attention to discipline. It's nice to win. We tell each other things every week when things are going well and when things are not going well. Individual performances were not there. We reassured ourselves thanks to our good defense and on the attack we were effective. We knew it was the last match of the block. We go on vacation relieved.
Christophe Urios, manager of ASM
What I liked was the victory even if I think we deserved the offensive bonus, the ability to start the game well, to dominate the match and take on the Bordelais on what makes their strength, physical domination . Clermont was a good vintage this evening. The week was complicated, there are players who have pride in this group and sometimes it stings. The week was tense in a good way. This is a group that needs some jabbing. We had to prepare well for this last meeting, we were ready.
