On Sunday, on the lawn of the Saint-Jean stadium, we immediately understood that the AORC was going to go through a bad period, like last February, when the CAL and its great conquest had (already) arrived to win in the Basque Country (6 – 24). To hope to get around a damn dense group of forwards, Anglet knew he had to hold the ball. One thing that the companions of Romain Chabat have not been able to do, having failed to concatenate several times: the fault of a Lannemezanaise defense in progress and an incalculable number of balls lost.
Fortunately, the only time Anglet managed to beat the field without engaging a striker, Bastien Fischer finished his game in the opponent’s in-goal (30th), registering, there, the only Angloys points of the first. period, with the inaugural penalty scored by Thomas Pulon (6th).
Match cut
In the second half, history repeated itself almost identically. Anglet, with an eight-point lead (8-16) half an hour from the end, teased by pride, certainly had more ammunition than in the first half. But with every attack in the opponents 22 meters, the blue-whites, probably too impatient, could not find the fault and the many whistles of Mr. Frayssinet – for or against the AORC – did not help the match to reach heights of intensity.
“That’s why we couldn’t continue. The game was unstable, there were too many flaws and we don’t recognize ourselves in it, Fauqué recalled. We know we can be dangerous when we get moving. Today Lannemezan did what was necessary to counter us on this, to break the pace. They were good, that’s how it is. We missed him today, we couldn’t win. Nor take a point. Because if even there the AORC had opportunities to get to the heart of the defensive bonus, the distant attempts of Arnaud Dhuin (68 °) or Thomas Pulon (80 °) escaped from the poles of the Saint-Jean stadium, where the wind was harsh to check.
