Top 14 : à Bordeaux, le Stade Toulousain lance l’opération reconquête du titre de champion de France
After having abandoned their double national crown in Nice in the last semi-final, the Toulouse team intend to start off on the right foot, this Sunday, September 4 in Bordeaux-Bègles, at the start of the Top French Championship season.
At the meeting of opposites. After being slammed in the face of the final of the Top 14, in Nice a little over two months ago, Bordeaux and Toulouse are back in what promises to be one of the hottest duels of this end of summer. A period supposed to have given the two teams time to vent the frustration of a season that was not really a failure but not completely successful either. Especially on the UBB side where tensions between Christophe Urios and his locker room have polluted the last weeks of competition.
The usefulness of storing
This evening, in a sold-out Chaban-Delmas and which has become teasing in recent years with the Toulouse visitor as the Girondin host freed himself from his inferiority complex, it was a question of starting off on the right foot.
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“Going to Bordeaux in a full stadium against a team which in any case will play a place in the final stages, it’s always a moment that passes us by the revealer, poses Ugo Mola. Me, today, caution allows me to say that we are obviously not ready but I also paid to understand that it is still at the end of the ball that we pay for all that and that we remember very little of the first days a few months later.
If the memories are erased, the acquired points, them, remain. And if they had not been garnered as much at the start of the previous exercise (6 wins in a row), the Toulouse people might not have had the chance to climb into the last four.
Hence the interest not to overuse this introduction, even at a big one, which is not why a problem when we remember that the first victim of the Stadistes last year none other than the future champion from Europe to Deflandre. It remains to be seen where the “Rouge et Noir” are at in their start-up, they who only contested one friendly, 10 days ago in Toulon.
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“The five games that will come should allow us to finish our preparation which is a bit disparate and will be compensated for some with the reintegration of a lot of injured players and not the least, warns Mola. What is certain is that we are going to have on a first league match an intensity that will be worthy of the match we were able to experience in La Rochelle last year.”
“There is an unknown part”
Dithyrambic on his first adversary that one can however judge as weakened compared to the recorded movements – “Bordeaux still carries out a recruitment always as relevant”; “It’s a team that is always dangerous because of the talent it has” -, Mola, always ambitious – “It’s normal to have the objective of playing the leading roles in a club like ours. It will be complicated to “Always be at the top but we will do everything to” –, advances with some questions, related in particular to his problems on the front line (read opposite).
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“There is a part of the unknown with regard to injuries and the workforce, especially in front of young players who will be thrown into the deep end.” As for three-quarters, however, there will be no need for armbands.
The trend: Bordeaux-Bègles 49% – Toulouse 51%