“It’s a final phase match“. The word, dropped by one of the Béziers during the week, has never been more true than this Friday evening at the Brive Stadium where the CAB ended up winning 15 to 10 against Béziers, in a tough and competitive fight. which was based on the fundamentals of rugby.
Put in difficulty by the always eye-catching team from Béziers, the first half shows no clear domination of one of the two teams who still remain neck and neck. If Brive scores a first try thanks to the ball carried by Lucas Da Silva (who also signs his eighth try, once again becoming Brive’s only best try scorer), opener Curwin Bosch fails to convert. Béziers never coming within 22 meters, Brive returned to the locker room with the short mark of 5 to 0.
8 points on foot lost by Verdu and Bosch
Returning from the locker room, Béziers returned to the game thanks to an aerial ball poorly caught by Sadrugu which caused a melee. Behind, after several pick’n’go sequences, Arroyo, the right pillar of Béziers, scores under the posts. Marques transforms: the Stadium trembles as Béziers passes in front. Trailing at one point 10 to 5, the CAB will finally react…thanks to its ultimate weapon: carried balls. After a touch from 5 meters well negotiated by Da Silva, it was Van der Merwe who flattened it into a corner. Verdu, who had just missed a so-called “easy” penalty, made a very complicated transformation into a corner.
Béziers will have the opportunity to come back at the very end of the match but the referee will finally give a penalty in favor of the Brivists who hit the touchline and free themselves. Victory alone was important. “It’s a match where we were strong,” noted Pierre-Henry Broncan after the match. “It’s a victory at La Méla, but it’s also in the culture of the club. We score with different weapons from last week, and I’m happy because we still notice on carried ball. We put a lot of intensity over 80 minutes and solidarity, communication, it’s something that is really progressing in our team” explained the cab driver manager.
-By securing this 4th victory in a row, Brive is now co-leader of the division…with Grenoble, who obtains a defensive bonus point on the Mont-de-Marsan pitch. “We are going to test our solidarity” there, said PHB. The appointment is made.
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