Bordeaux-Bègles encore battu, chez lui par les Sharks
Aurélien CANOT, Media365, published on Friday December 16, 2022 at 11:44 p.m.
Already beaten on the first day of the Champions Cup, in Gloucester, Bordeaux-Bègles lost again (19-16), Friday at home by the Coastal Sharks. Faced with the South Africans, the UBB notably paid a high price for its indiscipline.
Already two down for Bordeaux-Bègles. Beaten on the lawn of the English of Gloucester (22-17) during the first day of the Champions Cup last weekend, the UBB hopes to take advantage of the long trip of the Coastal Sharks to join the Gironde and the Chaban-Delmas stadium to immediately restore your health and unlock your counter in this competition. Unfortunately for the Girondins, history repeated itself and the 8th in the Top 14 ranking lost again, at home against the South African province. A second defeat which is all the more stain as the UBB, which had found the fault after less than ten minutes of play, on a try by Renato Giammarioli, raced in the lead throughout the first half, which ended with a score of 13 to 9 in favor of the locals. It was then that everything went wrong for the team still trained last month by Christophe Urios.
The UBB concedes to seize the sanctions!
The fault in particular of a much too important and fatal indiscipline at this level, especially against these Sharks who had pressed the accelerator from the start, with a try from Werner Kok only nine minutes after the re-engagement. When the Girondins only scored one weakness in this part, they indeed conceded in parallel… seize the penalties. And as it was said that the evening would again be very dark for the UBB, Bordeaux-Bègles also lost two players to injury during this second Champions Cup meeting. Pillar Ben Tameifuna made a lightning pass on the lawn after being injured just four minutes after coming on. Winger Madosh Tambwe abandoned his teammates on a stretcher at the very end of the match. endless stoppage time which could have allowed the players of the tandem composed of Frédéric Charrier and Julien Laïrle to obtain their first victory in the snatch. Unfortunately, this has not been the case and the qualification for the final phase is already moving away for UBB.