Five days before the end of the season, a distance duel for the maintenance is played this Friday. Five formations are committed for two places. Carcassonne, fourteenth, is obviously one of them. If the red lantern Massy, relegated to thirteen lengths from the Audois…
Five days before the end of the season, a distance duel for the maintenance is played this Friday. Five formations are committed for two places. Carcassonne, fourteenth, is obviously one of them. If the red lantern Massy, relegated to thirteen lengths from Audois (42 points) seems to be gradually losing ground and even almost out of the race, Rouen (47 points), Soyaux-Angoulême (43 points) and Montauban (41 points) are also fighting for extend their lease in Pro D2. Like at the top, the bottom will be played in a pocket handkerchief.
Especially since in this vintage 22-23, everything can go very quickly. With the trips of four clubs playing the top 6 (Grenoble, Nevers, Biarritz and Provence Rugby) with so many poorly ranked (Massy, Rouen, Carcassonne and Soyaux-Angoulême), this 26th day is very expensive. Matches traps par excellence for everyone that it will be necessary to know how to negotiate well under penalty of inflicting a handicap very difficult to fill wherever you are in the classification. Again, Carcassonne is concerned.
Biarritz never winning
In the wake of an improved success obtained at Albert-Domec against Mont-de-Marsan (37-9) and a defeat conceded on the siren on the smallest of the gaps in Béziers (18-17), the Canaries must therefore imperatively reconnect with victory to avoid sinking. If the Biarrot guest of the day is far from being the first comer, the fact remains that he has never won in Pro D2 in Aude. In seven games played at the foot of the City, seven defeats were the key. For evening guests, there is therefore no reason for this to change.
Especially since next season, only the red lantern of the hen will be directly relegated. A barrage against the loser of the National final will be another chance for the 15th in Pro D2 to hold on. It is especially not this year that you have to go down. When we already know the difficulties regularly encountered by the promoted yet copiously reinforced in the off-season to maintain themselves… We imagine the task even more complicated with their National workforce. But that’s for later. This Friday evening, Carcassonne is still playing in the second division and will fight to stay there.
Three injured after Béziers
From their defeat conceded in Béziers, the Canaries returned with three injuries: the opening half Dorien Jones (inflammation in the foot), the center Joris Dupont (shoulder), as well as the pillar and former biarrot Vakhtangi Akhobadze (knee). If the first two are already packages, the third remains uncertain.
