Toulouse Métropole can still believe it
As in the two previous rounds, the Toulouse, still at home, tomorrow night against another resident of R1.
“Honestly, I’m pretty happy with the draw. It feels good to prepare to meet a team from a region other than Occitanie, just to face a different style of play.” This is the state of mind of Olivier Hernandez, coach of the TMFC (Toulouse Métropole Football Club, 9th in Pool C in Regional 1), who arrived on the bench this season.
After Auch (3-1) and Rousson (3-1), the Toulouse residents will continue, tomorrow evening (at 6 p.m., at the Pierre Cahuzac stadium) a third consecutive reception in the Cup against another resident of R1. But this time, they will face ESA Brive, representative of the Ligue Nouvelle-Aquitaine (10th in Pool B). “Honestly, with my staff composed of Christian Laffont and Florian Feucht, we don’t really realize that we are going to play a 7th round. Since the start of the season, we have had a lot of matches. So we do not necessarily realize that “to have passed so many laps. On the other hand, I think that the players are a little more aware of the meeting which awaits them. This is where we have to succeed in making them keep their feet on the ground, “explains Olivier Hernandez who relies on a young workforce, made up of about twenty players.” I still have a thought for the tireless Mathias Torrent (41 years old, Editor’s note) who weighs down the average age a little (laughs) “, confides the trainer of the TMFC.
Beaten in the last two days of the championship (at Rodeo, 2-0, and ahead of Lourdes, 1-3), his proteges have, on paper, a good opportunity to bounce back and mark a little more the history of a club founded in the summer of 2016.