Toulouse consoles itself with the defensive bonus
> THE ESSENTIAL
All week, this first match of the calendar year 2022 held a thread between the injured and the absent in the two clubs which, until the last moment, chose to maintain this opposition. In the end, a losing poker move for the TOEC-TOAC-FCT which was not able to tame an Appamean group largely within its reach.
On a grass more than lush at the limit of the practicable with a continuous rain and a violent wind, it was not necessary to play and in this game of Pamiers chess, which begins the game with the wind, knew how to support where it hurts. with small Toulouse slag immediately converted into points by the master artificer Jérémy Ducousso, a real conductor of the meeting, especially to give air to his team in the moments of Toulouse domination.
The Toecistes score a penalty try on a carried ball, but take their feet in the mat: on a ball returned to the opponent, Pamiers changes the direction of the game and on a surplus the center Nekolo Tolofua points the try. 7-14 at the break, nothing will be scored in the second half. At the hour mark, the local team camps for a quarter of an hour on the opposing goal line without scoring: it is the turning point of the match and the local team must be satisfied with a defensive bonus.
> THEY SAID
Francis Cazeneuve (president of TOEC-TOAC-FCT): “We start 2022 as we finished 2021, with a loss at home and a defensive bonus point. There was room for another chosen.”
Éric Mercadier (Pamiers coach): “With such terrain and climatic conditions, we shouldn’t expect big surges. We did the job, we responded present in the fight and we went to seek victory with guts. You have to suffer in winter in this style of meeting to be present in the spring. “