The players and managers of MHR and Union Bordeaux-Bègles presented themselves at a press conference this Saturday, November 30, in the wake of Bordeaux’s victory (9-6).
MHR
Jordan Uelese (MHR hooker) : “First of all, I’m really happy with the guys’ effort. It’s the kind of performance we can work on. We wanted the four points but it’s still important to come away with something, especially in this competition so difficult.
Joan (Caudullo) wants us to be dogs on the ground, for that to be our DNA. We are creating a real group of friends. Our rear triangle managed the Bordeaux occupation game really well.”
Alexandre Bécognée (third line of the MHR) : “We will remain humble and be satisfied with this point. We came here to validate our last three performances, we were quite successful, we will have to continue in this direction. Our goal is to be difficult, we are, we have to stay that way, and win matches we know where we come from, we’re going back little by little, we can’t afford to throw away points, hence the desire to validate a point at the end of the match. .”
Joan Caudullo (MHR Manager): “We are happy to bring home a point. Before the match, we would have signed straight away. In relation to our project, this point is interesting. We have opportunities to score a little more, it’s a shame. I the feeling that we are lucky to come back with three points conceded at half-time we made 17 mistakes, it’s difficult to win in rugby with this indiscipline and if we look at that, it’s still a good point. I am still proud of players. We want to be annoying to play, we showed it again. Our base is being put in place. It’s going to be complicated to make team compositions.
UBB
Matthieu Jalibert (UBB flyhalf) : “The match will not go down in history. It was a complicated match, with a very particular style of play, accentuated by this thin wet film. That remains four important points. We were very strong in defense. We didn’t There were no surprises with what Montpellier offered us, with a lot of one-pass plays, a powerful forward game. I would really like to congratulate their game.”
Maxime Lamothe (UBB hooker) : “We didn’t see a lot of rugby. We knew that they had a very strong conquest, a good line-out defense, we tried to find solutions, we didn’t succeed. We are happy to “impose. The adversary has put an enormous hold on us, physically and psychologically.”
Yannick Bru (UBB manager) : “We didn’t wait until this evening to see that Montpellier was a difficult team to play. Its ranking does not reflect the value of its squad. We knew it would be a difficult, tough match. There was nothing sexy, but we’re happy to get out of it.”
Belgium
