SA XV: Ugalde back on the bench against Rouen
Once is not custom, the staff of SA XV, accustomed to large rotations from one match to another, chose to touch very little with the team which beat Carcassonne last week to face Rouen this Friday evening in Chanzy (7:30 p.m.), since ten of the fifteen holders are renewed.
Only four players have returned to the group: Ledua Mau and Sikeli Nabou, who had been spared to treat minor sores, as well as Robin Copeland, and Matthieu Ugalde, who had a cyst removed from his foot in September and no longer has replayed since the first match against Vannes.
Mau takes the place of Ayarza who leaves the group, and Nabou that of Pesvianidze, automatically suspended after his red against Carcassonne and who goes to the disciplinary committee next Wednesday. Ugalde and Copeland, preferred to Martins, will attack on the bench.
In addition to Mau and Nabou, three other changes concern the starting fifteen: Bau will start in the scrum in place of Manu Saubusse, Patxi Bidart in tailgating rather than Rayne Barka, and Yassin Boutemmani holds the position of right pillar. Omar Dahir leaving the group that the young Seydou Diakité rejoined.
Recovered from their long convalescence, the two hookers Kevin Le Guen and Ole Avei will therefore have to wait again before returning to the field. Maybe in Colomiers next week. We will probably have to wait one or two more weeks for the third lines Gautier Gibouin and Hubert Texier.
SA XV. 15. Lafitte; 14. Laforgue, 13. Naqiri, 12. Mau, 11. Lestremau; (o) 10. Botica, (m) 9. Bau; 7. Burgaud, 8. Va’ai, 6. Beukeboom; 5. Roux, 4. Nabou; 3. Boutemmani, 2. Bidart, 1. Vartan. Replacements: 16. Barka, 17. Odishvili, 18. Copeland 19. Jarmouni, 20. Saubusse, 21. Ugalde, 22. Brosset, 23. Diakité.