Grenoble, as commander

Unfortunately, when the final whistle blew, there was this rush of adrenaline that won a yellow card for the Isérois, but also a yellow and red for the Andinois. “We knew it would be tight until the end. We can only regret those events at the end of the game, but we showed our character,” puts Geoffrey Cros in perspective, author of a decisive pass on Isère’s second try scored by Couilloud, the try to decide the match for FCG who, for 80 minutes, behaved like a boss on a lawn Charles Stadium – Mathon… enough to explain the cold feeling in the stands and the heat at the end. Enough also to justify the chants that rose quickly from the Alpins locker room and this first comment from Patrick Pézery: “By doing the job of winning in Oyonnax, the group has shown a lot of things that we can build on, we had focused on several aspects that we could be tight on, and we honoring the strategy we wanted to implement. place.” This type of toughness and mastery that the Grenoble technician refers to is, obviously, one of the main keys to this conflict. “The players were able to master what needed to be done to be there by competing against Oyonnax they nurtured their confidence.

Victory despite the injuries

Supported by the flawless performance at the base of Marc Palmier, reinforced by scoring two tries, this confidence allowed the Isérois to show their desire to play from one end of the meeting to the other. “Synthetics is a landscape that is conducive to the offensive and we did bold,” appreciates Geoffrey Cross. “We delivered a good game, in management, in winning, in the conduct of our game. We will be able to use it as a reference game to continue to work and move towards our qualification goal. “ Pádraig Pézery also expresses this view “From an accounting point of view, this effect is very interesting.but it does not keep this particular aspect of the performance achieved in Haut-Bugey and which confirms what has already been signed in Béziers. “We have almost twenty injured players at the moment, players retained by the national teams. At one point we even wondered if the coaches were going to play the players.