The CAB, announced condemned a few weeks ago, gave itself, last week, a hope of hanging 13th place. But the Brivistes do not have their destiny in hand, will have to maintain their level of performance, and above all resist a tough end to the season.
We will never stop saying how insane this Top 14 is. Crazy to see Brive, at the bottom of the bucket and announced in Pro D2, going to win a match in Montpellier (27-26), to come back to four points from Perpignan and hope to grab 13th place as a play-off in order to avoid direct relegation to the lower level. “To say that it’s mission accomplished in Montpellier… They didn’t give me the same speech a week ago,” quips the Brive manager Patrice Collazo before the reception of Castres this Saturday. And the former coach of La Rochelle and Toulon to continue, cautious: “We know that every weekend is different in the Top 14, that also applies to us. Victory at the MHR will have given us a 10 liter bottle of oxygen to prepare for this week. »
The bottle will empty as the kick-off approaches, and the Corréziens will above all seek to fill it. In order to hope for this, there is no choice, the CAB must go through a success, and therefore succeed in repeating the services it has been able to pull out of its hat to sign two consecutive victories in the league (against Pau, 22-17 , then in Montpellier). “We will need everything. The scrum, but also this ability that we had, being at 14, to multiply to fill the holes, manage to keep the ball and carry out big sequences to push the opponent to the fault. And then, in the Hérault, we were above all efficient, something we missed in the past, ”concludes Collazo.
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The Corrèze staff, feeling their players marked by the excess of energy provided at GGL Stadium, adjusted the workload this week in order to allow better regeneration and to arrive with maximum freshness at Amédée-Domenech this Saturday afternoon. . And to transform the simple coup de force into a real dynamic. “Two issues will present themselves to us, summarizes the manager. If we think that the fabulous was in Montpellier, we will collect ourselves. But if we think that the fabulous is to come… What interests me is that we are not a one-shot team, but one that is established over time. »
If only because Brive is anything but master of its destiny, hanging on the results of Perpignan. Who will also play before the CAB this Saturday against Toulouse. “On the other hand, we should not focus on them. We must avoid absorbing certain mental parasites which could make us thwart ”, warns the back or center Thomas Laranjeira. A defeat for the Catalans would open the door wide to the Coujous to put pressure on the Sang et Or.
But the last two days of Top 14 promise to be anything but obvious for the Corréziens. Because after receiving a vengeful Castres after his disappointment in Pau, he will have to move to Toulouse in two weeks. When Perpignan comes… to Castres.
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