Toulouse. The TBC starts the year at home with the Occitan derby
> The essential
The TBC, which will align Fabien Bondron as the medical joker of Olivier Yao-Delon, begins 2022 with two home matches. Against Tarbes-Lourdes, tomorrow for the second leg of the Occitan derby, and against Challans on Friday. Two victories will allow him to keep intact his chances of taking part in Group A of the second phase and would practically secure a place in Group B.
> The pre-match context
Several clubs having asked to advance to Saturday and Sunday the meetings scheduled for tomorrow, Toulouse and Tarbes, without playing, fell in the standings. But suddenly, they practically know what their position will be at the end of tomorrow’s match. In case of victory, the TBC would overtake Vitré, winner of the leader Angers on Saturday, to take fifth place. Victorious, Tarbes-Lourdes joined Toulouse, but also La Rochelle Cergy and the four teams and separated at the middle point to occupy the places of 6th to 9th.
> Fabien Bondron, TBC medical joker
Victim of a fall from his injury during the defeat of TBC in La Rochelle on December 17, Olivier Yao-Delon is going to have his shoulder operated. To compensate for his absence, the leaders have chosen to call on a medical joker. This will be Fabien Bondron, well known in Occitania for having played in Auch (NM3), Valence-Condom (NM2), then in Tarbes-Lourdes (2016-2017), a club against which he will therefore make his debut with the “Toros “. The 28-year-old full-back studied at Massy and went through the youth teams at the Paris-Levallois, Nancy and Le Havre training centers. Toulouse will be his sixth club in NM1, if we include Roche-la-Molière where, as a cadet, he played four games in 2010-2011, after Tarbes-Lourdes, Lorient, La Charité and Challans last season.