Winners of Stade Français (21-13), Sunday evening at the end of the 11th day of Top 14, on its Jean-Dauger lawn, where they have won everything this season, the Bayonnais, aware of having suffered against the Parisians, were easily satisfied, like Joris Segonds and Cheick Tiberghien, with these four new points taken at home.
No one from Bayon dared to be difficult, Sunday evening after the new success at home, obtained at the end of the 11th day of Top 14 against Stade Français (21-13). It must be said that if this Rowing which confirmed against the Parisians that it was impregnable on its lawn of Jean-Dauger, with a sixth victory in six outings in its historic lair, it did not put in style during this sixth released in front of his audience. The Basques, propelled to fourth place in the standings after this new victory (the seventh this season), were even frightened for a time by the poorly ranked team, still in contact (10-10) when the second half began. time. Bayonne, thanks in particular to a try scored from the restart by Esteban Capilla, then made the difference, but without boasting after the meeting, like the former Parisian Joris Segonds (“It's obviously a special match, because it's the team thanks to which I met the Top 14, so I owe a lot to Paris”) which retained almost only the accounting aspect of this complicated evening.
“These four points are worth gold”, even admitted the Bayonne opener, extremely relieved at the microphone of Canal Plus. “We know this Paris team, we know that it is a very strong and very conquering team. We knew what to expect: we knew that we were going to play a Paris team with a fairly direct game. That's what they did in the first half: they hurt us. They particularly hurt us a lot on the counter-rucks. We rectified that at half-time and in the second half, we managed to keep the ball that we had dropped a little in the first half. »
Tiberghien: “I sent anything to the foot”
Cheick Tiberghien, the rowing back, unhappy with both his personal performance and the performance of his team, was even tougher than his teammate. “We didn't really put our game together the way we wanted, but they still have a very strong defense. We were also quite bothered in the rucks, even though we had worked in this area and it had had positive effects at the start of the season, but here, today (Sunday), it was average. Joris is good for us, with his game strategy which is very good. I sent anything to the foot (sic), so he did good. » And more than anyone on Sunday, the former Clermont player only wanted to dwell on one thing: “The main thing is that we won. »
