Julien Marchand joins the Blues with a light spirit after the success against Munster
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Stade Toulousain validated this Sunday a fourth victory in four matches in the group stages of the Champions Cup. This narrow victory obtained against Munster does not allow Ugo Mola’s men to place themselves at the top of their pool, but they remain just behind Stade Rochelais. Here is casually a completely honorable course, which allows the club’s internationals (and there are many of them) to leave serenely to join the France group to prepare for the 6 Nations tournament.
Julien Marchand, man of the match against the Irish, is one of those players. The international hooker trusts the rest of the group to keep the club afloat while they are away, as he named it at the microphone of France Télévisions.
We had what we expected: a big team that hits hard and is capable of great things as they did. So special mention to them who had a great game. We too are very delighted and happy to have won today against this very fine team which gave us a lot of problems. We are very happy to leave with the victory, it was not chosen before the match.
Now we are going to leave for a while, on the other hand we will think of the friends who remain in Toulouse. I hope they’ll do well in the league and I’m sure of it because we have a very good group. We have plenty of guys who are training, who didn’t play today, but who are there. It’s really a group, it’s not just the 23.
Make way for another chapter in Blue by Julien Marchand, Antoine Dupont, Anthony Jelonch and the others. The players who will remain in Toulouse will have the heavy task of ensuring Toulouse’s superiority in the league. Considering the quality of the players in this group even when you remove the internationals, there is really nothing to worry about…
to summarize
Julien Marchand, like a lot of other players from Stade Toulousain, will join the France group to prepare for the 6 Nations tournament. But before that, the Rouge et Noir hooker managed, with his club teammates, to snatch another victory in the group stage of the Champions Cup. What to leave serenely.