The boss is taking a nap again
Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Monday, November 28, 2022 at 11:37 p.m.
Stade Toulousain must wake up. After a thunderous start to the season, and while the international break is over, the results are still not following in November. And the European Cup is coming…
This time, no more duplication. Certainly without Antoine Dupont or Cyril Baille, the Toulousains found all of their available resources in Lyon on Sunday, like Romain Ntamack who was also attractive at the hinge. Ugo Mola had still decided to leave his hooker Julien Marchand on the bench, but we can talk about a real defeat for the leader of Top 14, who has a third game in a row without a win after Bayonne (26-22 defeat on the road) and Stade Français (16-16 draw at home). It is of course the worst series of the season for the Haut-Garonne, so above during the first days that they keep four points ahead of La Rochelle.
Mola: “We’re going to take the bus back and ask ourselves the right questions”
For Mola, no doubt, it’s “a match to forget”: “We control for 20 minutes then we fall into a false rhythm, and it escapes us. To come back to the score would have been a hold-up. We will resume the bus and ask the right questions during the seven-hour journey.” We would rather estimate the journey time at five and a half hours, but who cares, the people of Toulouse have actually had the leisure to ruminate.
The third line Alexandre Roumat confirms that “the victory of the Lyonnais is deserved”: “We fell asleep on our laurels a little after leading, we had a series of faults and dropped balls. It’s a shame, there were place but we deserve it. We made too many mistakes, it was too difficult to come back against this team who defended well and pushed by their public.” There is no danger in default, just an obligation to finally restart the machine on Saturday against Perpignan, poor penultimate who risks suffering the wrath.