Pro D2 – Precision and commitment to revive Rouen
Rouen is in the hard, it is undeniable. Beyond the results, there is also a problem of content. Montauban presents itself as the ideal match to relaunch the red and black machine.
It is clear that Rouen has started its season well, we recall that the objective was to acquire the maintenance quickly… and nothing else. Rouen was first, then dragged its crampons in the top 6 for a long time, before falling out of it for two games and there it is to get out of the top 10 which hangs in their face, such a bad result against the Montalbanais. “It’s the dynamics, the tempo that we are lacking today, because overall we respect the principles of the game we want to put in place, but in the details we are in difficulty. A lot of individual, technical and tactical errors, especially in defense, which prevents us from developing our game ideally”, confides Renaud Dulin, the coach of the Norman three-quarters.
No danger in delay
Because Rouen has the annoying habit of putting teams in great difficulty back in the saddle, such as Carcassonne and Béziers (the two teams were fifteenth when they met Rouen, seventh). And Montauban clearly has this team profile in bad shape. But Rouen goes by cycle, three defeats since the start of the season have resulted in a victorious burst. “We will hope. It would be nice to follow up with three wins. We must detach ourselves from the classification and base ourselves on the value of each team in full, so we will be more justly wary of Montauban which has a more top 8 profile, and we will take the match from the right end. We have to put the ingredients of a team difficulty that plays above all the maintenance and especially against its teams in “, says the technician. There is therefore no danger in delay, and Rouen has, as we have seen, the ability to do much better.
The group should recover its vital forces, and freshness is an important parameter. “Yes, physical freshness, and above all mental. Injuries are part of rugby, however of the 23 players called up and fit, it is above all mental freshness that we need, to put a dynamic in place and respect our principles of play, Hammers Renaud Dulin. We then hope that the winter coldness announced this evening will not freeze intentions, and that Rouen will not be hara-kiri once again.