The USAP, diminished, lost in Paris, which had not had much time to prepare properly. At the bottom of the ranking, it is the Stade Français which does the right thing and moves away from the red zone. The USAP still does not manage to bring back points from its trips: only one point gleaned from Racing.
Engagement is good but details are missing – David Marty
David Marty (USAP coach) : “We have the feeling of not being far but yet we are not there. We lack success. The start is still good. We are penalized a lot on the ground game. Stade Français was not there. not fully confident and was not much above but we did not manage to stay stuck to the score otherwise we could have made them doubt.
These are details that we miss like this penalty which could have brought us back to six points. I don’t blame Tristan, especially not, who had a very good game. But, there are always these details that we cannot manage to turn in our favor.
After this week, we have no excuse, the situation is complicated for everyone, we are not going to hide behind this truncated preparation. We feel that we believe in it, but not enough. We do not yet believe enough in our chances. It’s the life of a team that rises from PRO D2 and that plays maintenance. We must move forward. This match will still serve as lessons for us. Next Saturday’s game is already in our heads. We are thinking of Biarritz from this evening.
We advance, we progress but it is not enough – Tristan Tedder
Tristan Tedder (USAP opening half) : We fought well but we did not manage to put our game in place. There are still twelve games left and we will rebuild, we have to. In the scoring area, we have to progress. We often manage to be in the scoring zone but we only scored 17 tries in 14 games. We advance, we progress, yes, but that is not enough. At half-time, we are still close but then we give in, it’s annoying. No, we don’t have our heads yet in Biarritz, we will get back to work on Monday.
We had the pressure – Joris Segonds
Joris Segonds (Stade Français opening half) : “We felt that we lacked preparation but we do not use it as an excuse. We prepared the best despite the glitches. We won against the USAP today and that’s what ‘We had to, that was the most important. We had to win at all costs today. We had the pressure, we could have put ourselves in a complicated situation. It feels good, in this kind of match you have to take the points when they show up and that’s what we did, we had a good conquest too. “