Uson Nevers 29 – Your Agnen 28
Lieu Nevers (pre-fleuri stadium). Spectators 5 500 environ. Arbitrator Mr. Mathieu Noirot (Occitanie). Half-time 10-13.
USON NEVERS 4 tests by Wasserman (21st, 54th), Ma'afu (48th), Buruiana (78th); 3 transformations by Reynolds (21st, 54th) and Bourhis (78th); 1 Reynolds penalty (14th).
The team: Mayo – Wasserman, Derrieux (cap.) (Ragoevi, 49e), Pommelet (Derrieux, 72e), Mathiron – (o) Reynolds (Le Bourhis, 65e), (m) Bouyssou (Tarel, 65e) – Bastide (David, 58e), Fraser, Plataret (Noah, 49e-72e) – Gabriel, Vignolles – Mudariki (Kundiona, 46e), Ma’afu (Kundiona, 55e), Kitutu (Tufele, 55e).
Your Agen 3 Essays of Fineanganofo (2nd), Ramoka (57th), Searle (71st); 2 transformations (2nd, 71st) and 3 penalties (26th, 29th, 67th) from Searle.
The team: Tolot – Mazzoléni (Etcheverry, 51e), Garrigues, Ramoka, Martins – (O) Searle, (m) Idjellidaine – Fineananganofo (Farré, 77e), Gayraud, Olmstead – Madigan (Eissmann, 49e), Farré (De Giovanni, 60e) – Burin (Macharashvili, 51e), Socino (chap.) (El Bibouji, 62e), Guion (Mstiani, 51e).
Yellow card: Olmstead (42nd, dangerous tackle).
LHe happiness is definitely not in the pre-fleuri for the agen. For the fourth time in its history in as many trips to the Nièvre in Pro D2, the club at the Eight Brennus fell Pavilion, this Friday, facing the men of Xavier Péméja (29-28). Like last season (24-19), the SUA had to be satisfied with a meager defensive bonus point in consolation lot, the fifth gleaned out of Armandie this season. And yet, the Agen still held their second victory outside the season two minutes from the siren. But a handmail with a final penaltouche to the Neversois cut their grass under the foot. Ragging for a team that has once again shown a good state of mind.
But she paid at a high price the yellow card received at the start of the second period by Olmstead (42e), followed by an air hole that allowed the premises to overthrow the scoring with a 12-0 in six minutes. With five victories over the last six days, Nevers is the team in the form of the moment and even the tube of this beginning of 2025 after the improved victory against Mont-de-Marsan (34-0) and the feat last Friday in Brive (22-23). But after its reversing success (39-26) in inferiority for almost an hour against Biarritz, the Sua confirmed that it is certainly better than its classification (11e). It is however good to maintain which it will be discussed next Friday (7:30 p.m.) in Montauban with now 5 points only on the barragist…
A very solid half-time
The last minute package of the center and neo-Capitaine Peyo Muscarditz (read elsewhere) could have disrupted the Agen. However, it was the partners of the Santiago Socino “ranking” who turned in mind (10-13). A first period full of rhythm between two very close teams – in the style of play, as in the ranking – who went blow for blow. The SUA drew the first with a test of the young Papa FineangoFo at the conclusion of a first hand attack after only 84 seconds of play. On the blackboard, with Searle bell pass for Tolot taken up 3 meters from in-goal, which put the Agenais in confidence (0-7, 2e). But not enough to cut the legs of Neversois sure of their strengths.
“We should have won. Without making an affront to Nevers, we had given ourselves the means to be there to win ”
Their salvation in Corrèze had gone through the game a week earlier. The men of Xavier Péméja confirmed that they have large-beateurs in front, but also that they know how to play ball behind. For twenty minutes, however, they broke their teeth on a well in place Agen defense. Until the winger Wasserman, “cut” by Martins when concluding eight minutes earlier (13e), finally find the opening at the end of the line (10-7, 21e). But Sébastien Calvet's men had prepared their blow very well. With a lot of pragmatisms, they knew how to provoke the faults to offer two penalties (26e29e) to their gunner Searle and resume the advantage (10-13).
-A yellow card that weighs
The showdown switched to the resumption of the second period. The fault of a yellow card received by Evan Olmstead for an illicit tackle on the rear Mayo (42e). Bad mayonnaise for the SUA which, in numerical inferiority, received two tests in six minutes. After a transversal of Reynolds for Bastide which escaped Mazzoleni, the first was concluded by Ma'afu (48e). Then following a release from Reynolds, Wasserman was more quick than Tolot to extend at the foot and afford a double after an 80 meter race (22-13, 54e). “It's the turn of the match,” said Manager Sébastien Calvet. With a team from Nevers that plays very well on the large light, when you are one less, you pay it cash. »»
The Sua nevertheless quickly returned to the game with a test of Ramoka, following a number of Martins (22-18, 57e). After a third penalty (67e), Searle even thought he had killed the match by concluding a nice movement after a scrum at 5 meters. The Agense had just signed a 0-15 in 14 minutes (22-28, 71e). And then they fell in love with happiness following this penaltouche improved by the Romanian hooker loaned by the Castres Olympique, Stefan Buruiana. “On the end-of-match management, we may still lack maturity,” insists Sébastien Calvet. We should have won. Without making an affront to Nevers, we had given ourselves the means to be there to win. »»
On arrival, he missed 1 point, as in Soyaux-Angoulême (30-29). A terrible frustration for the Manager Agenais: “Our players were at the rendezvous of the intensity and the opponent of the evening. But to win outside, for reasons and others, you have to be twice better than the opponent. »»
The blow
Peyo Muscarditz Package. Would there be a curse this season that strikes the various captains of the SU Agen? After Arnaud Duputs (operated by a wrist) and Julien Lebian (shoulder), it was Peyo Muscarditz who this time had to declare at the last minute. The Béarnais center was struck by a gastro in Nièvre, forced to follow the meeting from the edge of the field with the Agen replacements. The hooker Santiago Socino inherited captain's stripes for the first time, Clément Garrigues was established in the center alongside Kolinio Ramoka and the Iban Etcheverry winger finally took place on the replacement bench.
