Clément Pédron, Media365, published on Saturday January 25, 2025 at 10:28 a.m.
Red lantern of Top 14, RC Vannes welcomes the Stade Français this Saturday at 4 p.m. in its lair in the Rabine. The Bretons have the obligation to win to maintain the hope of a maintenance.
The rain is scheduled until 4 p.m. in Morbihan, until you kick off the 15th day of Top 14 between RC Vannes and Stade Français. However, it will take more than a sign from the sky to save the Bretons. A few hours before the launch of the match, the Rabine, the RCV lair, is ready to roar like a sixteenth man. It must be said that the situation is extremely tense from an accounting point of view. This Saturday, the promoted played the last chance match, the one who can make him reborn his hopes of maintenance like the one who can end it. With seven points behind his opponent of the day, the Vannetais know the issue of this meeting. With eleven days to play, the Morbihan club still has a tiny chance of succeeding in the impossible but for that, it will have to reconnect with what the Blue and White have not known for a long time: victory.
-Since their saving success against La Rochelle on November 30, Jean-Noël Spitzer's men have chained three losses in a row against Aviron (21-27), Pau (48-24) and Clermont (19-20). More recently, Vannes has annihilated his chances in the Cup challenge by bowing against Edinburgh and against the Scarlets. Now, the eyes are riveted towards the Top 14.
A match like any other according to the Vannetais
Aware of the issue, the Bretons still sought to prepare this reception of the Stade Français with good waves, without thinking of the catastrophe scenario. “I understand that we say that this is the last chance match,” says the manager in Ouest-France. It is a shortcut and there is a part of truth. We would have wanted it to be even later, it could have been earlier. But internally, this is not the word (pressure) that we use. […] We prepare the match the same way. We need to make good weeks and despite the climatic conditions, it was rather the case. We focus above all on us, what we have to do and can master. »Facing RC Vannes stands the Stade Français which leaves a spanking in Bordeaux-Bègles (19-46). The Ile -de -France residents are even the worst team outside with seven defeats in as many meetings and no defensive bonuses. To hope to play a bad turn to Parisians, the Bretons will have to find certain principles, avoid jumps of concentration, take the points as soon as they appear, so that the sweet sound of the bagpipe accompanying the “Bro Gozh Ma Zadoù” still resonates in Top 14.
