Top 14 – Toulouse, a hunter no longer knows how to kill
Despite a mixed copy, the Stadistes had the opportunity to garner points. But, at the finish, they still lost several valuables in the final race.
During the last two Top 14 exercises (those that came to an end in 2019 and 2021), in addition to winning the Brennus, the Toulouse team had gotten used to having a sufficiently large points cushion to manage the end of the regular phase while ensuring a direct place in the semi-finals. This is not the case this season. The champion is not dropped, six lengths behind the Bordeaux dolphin but he is in the middle of the pursuers. From hunted, he went to hunter. And he has to look in his rear view mirror so as not to get out of the six qualifiers. ” The calendar will be busy and it will also depend on the course in the European Cupadmits Antoine Dupont. From an accounting point of view, there will be no comfort. Each match will be important and we hope that the whole group will be in good shape, involved until the end. » Starting with the internationals who have no respite. ” We were warnedhe adds. The club has had a complicated period in recent months and on a desire to qualify, to play in the final stages, it goes through the fact of replaying directly. Maybe we’ll rest a little later. » Especially since the defeat at Castres, to zero points, is a bad operation. ” Before talking about the classification, we will talk about rugby, Place Jean Bouilhou. When we have put our rugby back in place, we will talk about the classification. » Hurry up.
Dupont: “Increase the slider”
If Toulouse did not deliver a copy of the most successful Saturday, he had the opportunity to garner. As he has achieved a hundred times in recent years and again at the start of the season. But, since a few weeks, it is no longer true ” We still have too many approximations, too great a lack of precision and rigor to win away from home, noted Dupont. We will all have to increase the slider. » After the points left en route beyond the siren twice against Paris or a badly negotiated “money time” in double numerical superiority in Pau, his team saw the defensive bonus fly away on the gong at Pierre-Fabre . ” We miss being killers in good timesassures Bouilhou. We do not manage to concretize outside and that is several times. We are still not far behind but we come back without any points. We have to find these mental resources, this spirit to tip the matches in our favor. What nevertheless made the DNA of this group.