“We did some good things, a bit of a “stop start” first half, we gave away a lot of penalties in our camp. We rectified that in the second half. We didn't panic, even if we played poorly in the first forty minutes. There are good things in this first block, and two matches which we know we played very poorly, Bayonne and Montpellier, winning with the bonus this evening is a good thing. It was a crucial match, we knew we had to win it. When you do it with 5 points, it's good for the team. »
Morgan Parra (Stade Français coach)
“There is frustration because we are right for forty minutes, we leave home well, we are good at strategy, even if we were penalized too easily. But there is this start of the second half where we take a try. We can debate whether it's flattened or not, but we didn't exist. We can't manage to string together 80 minutes properly outside. We struggled to get going and be consistent in the second half. The players are psychologically scarred after complicated, hard months, even if the truth now will perhaps not be that of the second block. Injured players will come back and give us something more. Of course, at first, we play it safe. You have to get out of this zone step by step. We are still masters of our destiny. »
Matthias Haddad-Victor (3rd line of La Rochelle)
“The watchword of the week was enthusiasm, we put a lot of desire into everything we wanted to do, even if we paid the price in terms of discipline in the first half . We have very good players, a very quality group, we knew how to express it. We built the match, when you settle down a little more, it was in continuity. We would like to be in the top two, we had a few setbacks away from home, that is in the past. »
Donnacha Ryan (La Rochelle forwards coach)
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