Still solid at home, with a fourth victory for Jean Dauger for theRowing Bayonne
. The Ciel et blanc won (24-20) against Perpignan
this Saturday, October 22, on behalf of the 8th day of Top 14
. Bayonne dominated the start of the match, but without really succeeding in concretizing it, was caught by two tries in a few minutes by the Catalans before halftime, enough to return to the locker room behind (17-6). Little by little, the Sky and White came back, before the tries of Uzair Cassiem (74th) and Gaëtan Germain (78th) which sealed the victory. The statements of Grégory Patat, Camille Lopez and Thomas Ceyte.
Gregory Patat, manager: “We do what is necessary in the first 20 minutes to put pressure on this Catalan team. But we don’t score, we are faced with a very aggressive defense which is at war with us on every ruck and which has not allowed us to develop our game. And then at one point, they sped up five minutes and they quit. It put us under pressure in relation to our game plan that we had initially. We wanted to control our game, to have continuity in this game. we were producing. And there, we simply foiled. The paradox is that we had chances and we didn’t put them to the bottom. The previous matches, a quarter of an opportunity, a half opportunity, we scored and that gives us an upturn.Tonight, we couldn’t cross this line, by a pass, by a badly negotiated ruck.
At 17-6 at halftime, we have no tension. We were able, I think, to turn the game around. Players came back, we came back little by little. These are clumsiness on our part and a failure to master our game on the rucks. We got our mouths smashed on the rucks. They had focused on it and we knew it, we had worked on it this week.
“A founding victory”
I think this victory will be founding. If the result had not been positive tonight, we might have had a questioning of our game, on what we had done so far. Winning lousy is winning. And this championship is very long. You have to know how to win such matches. And if Usap wins tonight, we are not crying foul. It’s positive for our group history. We are still at the beginning. It is better to work under favorable conditions of victories than to have a headache compared to a poor performance. Beating Perpignan was important from an accounting point of view. I talked about it before the match, it’s not a breath of fresh air, but it’s consistency with everything we do and it’s super important to put these teams at a margin of dots like this. Because we will continue to move forward, but it will put additional pressure on them in relation to their career. To find themselves at seven points now, it will put pressure on them when they receive Lyon next week.”
“Toulouse is going to be a completely different match. There, we’re going to be the little one again, it’s going to be a party at Dauger. We could have put 30,000 people in this stadium. Everyone is waiting for this match. But we had to go through this duel against Perpignan so that the party would be there. Because if you lost against USAP the party would have been ruined. But we will recover because I found the players a bit overwhelmed, tired at the end of the match. Many ended up with cramps. There wasn’t the same energy as after the previous matches. That doesn’t mean we’re going to play Toulouse without pressure. We’re going to play it to perform. That’s a certainty. In this sport, if you’re not afraid, if you’re not afraid, it’s complicated. So there will be a little form of apprehension. But we will do everything to remain undefeated at Dauger on Saturday evening.
This victory, I would like to dedicate it to little Lorea, the daughter of Stéphane Barberena, the coach of the Espoirs. She left us and we have a big thought for her. She was a fan of rowing and if you can bring a little happiness to a family in those moments, that’s important.”
Declared by Thomas Ceyte and Camille Lopez to come…
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