USAP lost quite heavily on the pitch at Stade Toulousain this Saturday afternoon (41-9). The first reactions, hot.
Franck Azéma, USAP manager:
“The score is heavy, I think. But it's the price because, as soon as you deviate a little and you lose link in the line, you pay it in cash. Paradoxically, I find that the guys don't have not given up. But, at the moment, we have to grit our teeth, that's the way it is. not the face we wanted to present. We could have had more of a fight, but they knew how to control their game and that's the strength of Toulouse despite the rotations. There were still some positive things. The scrum was interesting. ball lost 5 meters from the line… To exist against this team we would have had to hit the mark.”
Paul Graou, scrum half from Stade Toulousain:
“We were all excited to play this match but this first half created frustration for us. We started the match well, but we let ourselves fall asleep a little. In the second half, we were consistent. We are working very well for several years in the doubles periods, the young people often train with us, so there are no real surprises as to their performance tonight.”
David Mélé, assistant coach at Stade Toulousain:
“We had promised each other things all week. We knew USAP's intentions, and they gave us problems in the first half. I would even say that we caused problems by not respecting what we said to ourselves. We made the task difficult in rugby, there is no secret: when we make clean rucks, when we have connected forwards, we have fast balls. finds opportunities to score. what happened in the second half I hope we still have some left under the pedal But, when we respect what we have to put in place and the basis of this game, we manage to do it. interesting things. In the first half, we wanted to play too much “baballe”, and USAP came with fight and intensity so we couldn't play like that. We had prepared! “Hurray rugby” doesn’t work against it! Perpignan.”
