Toulouse. The TOEC-TOAC cracks in stoppage time
> THE ESSENTIAL
Yesterday, we did not attend a rugby meeting but a duel between poker players and at the end it was the Marmande team who won the bet after several playing times and a winning excess in the bottom of the ground.
Let’s face it, the first period is tasteless with teams of equal value who challenge each other physically without taking too many risks in the game and the large audience witnessed a crossover of the scorers with toecist side Elliot Vidal who has only one failure and Enzo Kralfa on the Marmandais side, author of a 100%. The second half resumes on the same boring bases. The defenses always take precedence over the attacks and you have to wait for the hour of play to see the movement of the match: Péio Retegui, at the end of the line, put back inside and it is a visiting pillar who intercepts and leaves the ball in hand over thirty meters with several teammates at the relay, but the local defense saved the furniture.
Without playing too well, the TOEC leads 15-9, but it is Marmande who monopolizes the ball and needs a converted try to win. The Toulousains brace themselves in defense and delay the inevitable. It’s hard to say if Marmande deserved to win. In any case the TOEC-TOAC-FCT did not deserve to lose
> HE SAID
Francis Cazeneuve (president of TOEC-TOAC FCT): “When we lose and the players are not good, I assume my duties. It is not in my habit to criticize the referee but today it was bad not to say another chosen one who starts badly … On three successive scrums, the assistant signals to him that Marmande collapses, but he saw nothing. Our opponent keeps possession of the ball which gives him the opportunity to score a try. All our efforts are suddenly destroyed and the players, admirable, are not rewarded. That’s what saddens me the most. “