So yes Rouen is from an accounting point of view ahead, if we compare compared to last year to the same period. But Rouen has also set a goal which is to make fourteenth and save quickly. It is therefore time to show that Rouen is no longer on alternating current, but becomes over the matches a safe bet in this championship.

It is joy and a smile that accompanies this recovery, as everywhere Rouen is impacted by the Covid (three cases at the time of writing), but that can change by the kickoff and multiply. “If there is one chosen on which it is difficult to spread, that’s it. We respect the protocols, masks, regular tests, but given the number of infected per day in France, it becomes difficult to escape them. “, admits Nicolas Godignon, a little circumspect.

Because yes, beyond the desire to do well, there remains a protocol to be applied which is not the same according to the vaccination schedule of the affected player. “We are at the end of the complete three-dose health pass for the whole group, there are still a few left but very few. Once that is done, we will basically have one check-up per week to do”, says the coach. No problem to compose your group, it looks like what the staff proposed on this resumption match, and the fact of training in the open air also helps. It is more in the weight room area, that ventilation and rotations must be done. But afterwards, the club cannot follow the players into their private lives.

a determining block

Out of this medico-societal aspect, the group sees the return of injured players, who therefore have the opportunity to show themselves again (Sanlaville, Jackson). “Audric Sanlaville is a former Bressan in addition, but after that is not why we called him, he deserves his chance. I am rarely in the idea of ​​an exceptional match against his former club, There are only two games left a year, you have to be good over several games to make a positive assessment “, assures the Rouen technician.

Because the most important thing is to win this match, to launch this block which if it is very likely to be decisive. It’s when Rouen puts on the intensity that the results fall on the safe side. “Clearly that’s what I want to see again. The things that we were able to put up against Béziers and Bayonne, it is an important match for us, but also for them. The certainty comes with the work that we put in daily, in training and in matches. Bourg recovered strongly against Grenoble to return to the score when they had taken the water in the first period. I am therefore very wary of what they are going to offer us “, specifies Nicolas Godignon. Rouen therefore remains vigilant, especially since two of its best regular elements will be missing, Nadir Megdoud the wisp winger and JC Astle the solid South African second line, both of whom are covid. “We must advance in number of points faster than those who are behind. Today Bourg-en-Bresse is behind, it is up to us to do what is necessary to leave them there”, conclusion the coach seino-marin.