Toulouse. The TOEC-TOAC gives in to Valencian solidarity
It was an explosion of joy that followed the referee’s final whistle. This victory, the Valencians went looking with guts against Toulouse dangerous until the end. After the defeat at Saint-Sulpice which had left a bitter taste, the Valencians worked during the week and it was 23 boys determined to bring down this Toulouse team – which had beaten the leader Nîmes last weekend – who attacked the game.
From the kick-off, the commitment is total on one side as the other but the men of Kévin Lecareux will be the first to send the game with a ball which circulates from hand to hand and it is not a surprise if in the 25th the hot Jason Deschamps will set fire to the opposing defense for the corner try.
Opportunities, the Valencians will have others but a grain of sand was there each time to abort the action. Before joining, the locker room it will be Yves Lescout’s turn to complete the work of his teammates with a second try so that at rest the score was 15 to 6. In the second half, two yellow cards forced the locals to playing fourteen and facing a Toulouse team like that of yesterday afternoon it was not a gift. Because the Toulouse residents have never abdicated, quite the contrary. And a test of Beilles in the final (76th) almost made him pass in front if he had been transformed… Too bad, their luck had passed.
Because it must be emphasized in two ways, the Valencians played with a huge heart by multiplying in defense, by playing their luck thoroughly and at the end of the game, while the balance could have reacted in the camp of TOEC-TOAC, on the last scrum in favor of Toulouse, the locals put their opponent at fault. Mass was said, the victory short but beautiful.
At the great dam of Toulousains who can feed some regrets.
TA: 15-6; referee: M. Marboh.
Winners: 2E Deschamps (25), Lescout (34), 1T Hellec (34), 1P Hellec (5).
Defeated s: 1E Beils (76); 3P Davo (13, 40, 48).
Valencian future: Diniz (Chapon 77); Deschamps, Lecareux, Hellec, Bertram; (o) Borderies, (m) Dulay (Macia 64); Lolesio (Lartigue 46), Caccia, Lescout; Teissedre, Vezès (Fono 57); Aouadi (Vermond 61), Fidinde (Level 78), Delon (Koza 71).
Yellow cards: Caccia (47), Fidinde (71).
TOEC-TOAC-FCT: Sellier; Beilles, De Roaldes (Lehodey 64), Saint-Martin (Lagain 34), Retegui; (o) Davo, (m) P. Dupuy (Vidal 64); Pages, B. Dupuy, Manie (Brody 56); Lahlali (Tabeuguia 49), Raturat; Jordan (Mezaourou 36), Bueno (Samyn 49), Flitti (Gogoladze 65).