(1E) Narbonne 10 – Tarbes 12 (2E)
36th Scrum for Tarbes in front of their 22 meters.
33rd Ball taken by Belzons, relay by Malet then by Dyer who crashes into the protection of the post; Timani picks up his ball and tries to score. Without success. The people of Narbonne were too impatient. Timani was greedy.
31st En-avant Tarbais on an animation from Narbonne. Penalty. Pénaltouche 5 meters from the Pyrenean goal.
Narbonne Trial
Ball carried and try by Talakaï. Chauvet transforms
Yellow card for Tarbes
Matawaleru goes to the fridge. new penaltouch
26th Percussion from Malet who puts his defender on the ground. The game bounces outside. Clavières was caught on the goal line but there was an advantage going on. The people of Narbonne do not take the points. Penaltouche and Tarbese fault.
26th The Narbonnais force the Tarbais back and benefit from a penalty on a counter ruck.
24th New penalty for Tarbes who will seek the touchline in the Narbonnais camp. Foul by Timani.
Whistles come from the stands of the Park.
Tarbes test
21st Penaltouche. Ball carried from Tarbais which progresses and try from Lamothe, the Pyrenean captain. The transformation is failed.
21st Relaunch of 80 meters from Tarbes and Salman, again, is caught 5 meters from the Narbonne line. Penalty for Tarbes.
20th Penaltouche. The RCN attacks the line and Gomez vomits his ball on the goal line well caught in the tackle. Defensive scrum for Tarbes.
20th This is the player who took Malet on 50 meters. The bear is a little shaken.
18th Stoppage of play. A Tarbais is injured in the center of the field.
17th 50: 22 from Chauvet on an action from Malet in percussion.
RCN opportunity
16th Betham breakthrough author of a crossing. Clavières offers himself on his wing and Clauzel is propelled onto the touchline.
15th Foot play too long from the Tarbes rear. Melee in front of the Tarbes 22 meters.
Tarbes test
13th Ball lost by Estériola who has her ball snatched away. Tarbes sends play on the wing then reverses the play. Two against a Tarbais along the touchline and Salman finds himself at the conclusion; The transformation is happening.
11th Tarbes reacts but commits a forward move. Defensive scrum for Narbonne in its 22 meters.
The RCN opens the score
8th Estériola puts his team in the lead. The game moves towards the exterior. Then reverse the sequence and the RCN benefits from 3 consecutive faults. Racing takes the points. Chauvet opens the scoring.
5th Clumsiness in the ball transmissions of the two teams. The RCN recovers a penalty in their camp. Pénaltouche just in front of the 22 meters of the Pyrenees.
3rd Clumsiness from Betham in his 22 meters. The RCN moves back 15 meters. play at the foot of Santoro, too short. Revival of Tarbes; Touch in the Narbonnais camp. The pressure is on Narbonne at the start of the match.
2nd Broken arm for Tarbes who sends the game straight away but Tarbais forward. New scrum but Nova introduction.
2nd 1st scrum of the match which collapses.
Here we go!!!!
Chauvet kicks off high. Directly in touch. Scrum in the center of the field
It is the RCN which will kick off.
The players enter the meadow.
-Both teams return to the locker room. The stadium is gradually filling up but the previous record (more than 5,000 spectators) will not be beaten.
Today’s calendar
Hyères-Carqueiranne 00 – 25 Carcassonne (Hyères-Carqueiranne package)
Weather report
11°; showers, light wind
Arbitrator
M. Dutreuilh (Pays de la Loire)
Players not selected by the RCN staff
Castinel, and Delacruz (left pillars), Moulahya (hooker), Tikoipau, Boyadjis (right pillars), Maga (2nd row), Caffo, Nakobukobua, Labit (3rd row), Nicolas (scrum half), Mias (center ), Naiyaravoro and Delacruz (wingers) as well as Goutard (back)
RCN substitutes
Gogiashvili (pillar), Visser (2nd line) and Etienne Ducom (winger or center)
RCN infirmary
Atlan (recovery), Nueno (shoulder), Barbaste (shoulder), Georgis (foot), Christienne (recovery), B. Delacruz (recovery), Moïse (knee), Antonescu (shoulder), Clauzade (knee), Tsague (recovery) ), PH Ducom (hip)
Boundjema (35), for his part, will end his sporting career at the end of the season.
Also note the first tenure of Hugo Clauzel on the wing.
Apparition
Note the first appearance of Théo Gomez (1 m 91 and 94 kg), 21 years old, in the center of the RCN back lines alongside Betham.
RCN staff
Julien SERON – Brice MACH – Sébastien LOGEROT
RCN bench
16 Boundjema – 17 Castinel – 18 Maga – 19 Mousties – 20 Hart – 21 Bosch – 22 Silafai-lea’ana – 23 Loukia
Composition of the RCN team
1 Fichten – 2 Estériola – 3 Talakai – 4 Dyer – 5 Fifita – 6 Timani – 7 Belzons (cap) – 8 Malet – 9 Nova (m) – 10 Chauvet (o) – 11 Clavières – 12 Gomez – 13 Betham – 14 Clauzel – 15 Santoro
Tarbes Staff
Romain TERRAIN – Nicolas CABANNES
Banc de Tarbes
16 Dolier – 17 Santamaria – 18 Bizien – 19 Abadie – 20 Thebaut – 21 Mamao – 22 Pialot – 23 L. Mirtskhulava
Probable composition of the Tarbes team
1 Baggiani – 2 Lamothe (cap) – 3 Mirtskhulava – 4 Soufflet – 5 Saint Guilhem – 6 Guicherd – 7 Salman – 8 Matawaleru – 9 Brocal (m) – 10 Perez (o) – 11 Latorre – 12 Rawacana – 4 Artaud – 15 Swanepoel
In fact, this match against visitors coming to the Park without any pressure, unlike the Narbonnais, looks like a trap meeting.
Trap continued
However, in the first leg, the Narbonnais only escaped the trap of the Tarbes bear in the money time (17 to 19).
Trap
Tarbes therefore (10th with 39 points), which suffered, 8 days ago, the realism of USC (19 to 24) is certainly not at the level of Rouen.
Five
statistics to which a school intercept must be added. That is 5 tries given in Rouen out of….5 scored. The account is very good.
Like the match against Rouen, the opposing defenses now read the Narbonne strategy much better. The Normans punished 4 times for the blunders, bad choices and inaccuracies of the Racing back lines.
Chiffre(s) suite
In January 2025, before the match against Tarbes, the counter was only 36 goals and 4 penalty tries.
Chiffre(s)
2023-24 season, at the end of January, the RCN scored 47 tries including 2 penalties.
Animation
What happened to last year’s great offensive display?
Interrogation(s)
In addition to this question which will be answered around 8 p.m., another immediately comes to mind and we will not necessarily have the answer at the end of the match.
Redemption ?
Time for redemption or will the RCN continue to scare itself in front of its supporters?
Good evening
Good evening to everyone. Welcome to lindépendant.fr to follow the reception of Tarbes (6:30 p.m.) by the RCN on the lawn of the Parc des Sports et de l’Amitié.
