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In Brive, where they led until the 43rd minute before suffering a heavy defeat (49-15) on Friday evening, the Columérins could only see the devastating reaction of the locals in the second half.
Sometimes some things are unchangeable. And seeing the certainly crestfallen but not defeated faces of the Columérins after the rout at Brive (49-15), we imagine, perhaps wrongly, that they knew that the Corrèze dynamic could not be reversed. “I expected a huge reaction, I was not disappointed,” quipped head coach Julien Sarraute. From the kick-off (of the second period, editor's note), we were punished and that gave us some momentum. »
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As a reminder, Stuart Olding, who had just come on, kicked off the second act. On reception, Pablo Dimcheff received a strong tackle from Asaeli Tuivuaka, followed by a collective and irresistible counter-ruck. This would only be the beginning of the storm weathered by the Haut-Garonnais, who suffered a terrible 43-0 after the lemons. “We should have kept everything we did in the first one long. But they arrived, in my opinion, with intentions, observed third row Grégoire Bazin, while we were too passive. And that opened the way for this steamroller for forty minutes, during which we took almost 50 points…”
Difficult to target a particularly failing sector or a key moment, except this very start of the second period. The domination was global. “In all sectors and in investment, I think we were less there,” continued the former Vannes resident. While in the first half, we made big tackles and we recovered balls from that, we didn't continue on that afterwards. »
“Let’s draw the right conclusions from this match”
Second row Louis Descoux was not particularly worried about the future: “I don't think we can say that there is a gap, given our domination in the first half. Let's analyze all this on video and draw the right conclusions from this match. »
Their manager, who tried to play down the situation, went with his metaphor: “You see the little boy who is a good student, discreet, at the back of the class, capable of good things? Well tonight he stuck his fingers out and got punished. » The reception of Béziers (winner of Dax 50-17) next week will be an opportunity to redeem ourselves.
