Corrected by Leinster in the semi-final of the European Cup on Saturday afternoon in Dublin, Stade Toulousain did not have time to procrastinate. Toulouse will do everything now to defend their other crown, the shield of Brennus of champion of France. And it starts on saturday evening for Toulouse 6th in Top 14 with a major trip to Brive which has not yet ensured its maintenance.
The opportunity for the Red and Black to revive quickly after the loss of their European crown this weekend in Ireland. But it won’t be easy. “We’re taking everything right now, smiles Toulouse coach Ugo Mola. Anything that can be given to us in recovery time, we’ll take it. But we mustn’t be mistaken about the deadlines that will be ours either, because qualifying is going to be very tense all the same. So we don’t have much time to think. You just have to be in the action and be able to be as fresh as possible to try to play rugby as we were able to do last week or a fortnight or three weeks ago. . But we always learn particularly from these defeats. We’re going to have to digest it anyway, obviously.”
The qualification for the final stages of Top 14 will still be very tense. – Ugo Mola, Stade Toulousain coach
The people of Toulouse seem worn out physically and mentally. But captain Julien Marchand tries to stay positive. “From Monday, we will have to start again with the banana because the season is not over and we are not going to let go. We will remobilize fully and be 100% for this end of the season.”
Capital meeting from Saturday in Brive
The only advantage of being eliminated on Saturday is that the Stadium will be idle on the weekend of May 28, in fifteen days, Champions Cup final day. This elimination will allow the Red and Blacks to breathe the weekend of the European finals. A real breath of fresh air for winger Matthis Lebel. “A weekend without a match allows you to recharge the batteries. Maybe there will be a training camp planned, I don’t know, to get together and start strong again. Because we have next weekend left and the match in Brive. After that, there will be the break and after Biarritz. And we hope for more. So for sure we will have one last big straight line left and we will have to optimize all the time we have.”
A weekend without a match allows you to recharge the batteries. – Toulouse winger Matthis Lebel
Hoping to recover players. Saturday, the Toulousains still lost one of their own, Rodrigue Neti, foot injury. The players will rest on Monday. Back to training on Tuesday. Brive – Toulouse is Saturday night. In the meantime, La Rochelle, Champions Cup finalist last season against Stade, qualified for the final by beating Racing, 20-13, this Sunday. In the final, the Rochelais will therefore find Leinster on Saturday May 28 in Marseille.