Pro D2: Colomiers, a (very) big test for US Carcassonne

Let’s face it right away, the Michel-Bendichou meadow in Colomiers, like the stadiums of Aurillac, Mont-de-Marsan, Grenoble, to which Bayonne and Agen (recently relegated from Top 14) were added this season. ‘have never succeeded in Audois. Judge instead, in ten visits, the Canaries have collected only two meager defensive bonus points, the most recent in September 2014, punctuating a short defeat (20-17). Seven years of famine which they would like to put an end to Friday night, even if the Columérins remain on an invincibility of four consecutive home games without a hitch.

We must indeed go back to May 6, to find traces of the last defeat of the Colombe players on their meadow, it was against Aurillac (16-17). “For me, Colomiers has been the best for three years in Pro D2, ensures Mathieu Cidre, the coach of the Carcassonne forwards. We have difficulty finding weaknesses and weaknesses in this team. It is as consistent in front as behind, in penetrating play, as in three-quarters. It also has good scorers, good kickers. Now we are really moving to be present in the fight. These are always tough matches against a team that is difficult to approach and maneuver. It’s their DNA. “

“It’s a good challenge that awaits us”

In the wake of a success, certainly sluggish, but so precious in accounting terms and which has done a great deal of good to morale, will the Carcassonnais reduce the sails at Colomiers in order to focus on the essential? “We are already moving to try to upset them. It is therefore to put the fight, the conquest and a big defensive pressure, says the technician from Carcassonne. A big defense is also a game of pressure, occupation and on the other hand, you also have to be present at the bottom. We are going to have to show a lot of commitment and solidarity, because if we let them play, maneuver rucks quickly, they will put their game in place and we could find ourselves in difficulties facing a team in full confidence that has just s. ‘impose in Grenoble (15-22). “

For this last match of the second block, and before a mini-truce of a week, the Audois in any case do not intend to move exclusively to make the round back while waiting for better days. “Even if we have not so far been spared from injuries, and therefore experienced difficulties in putting a collective and a team in place in the continuity to have benchmarks, we do not calculate what can happen next week . There is a big game to be delivered with the fit men of the moment and the players we consider the most successful. We are not in a situation to say that we are going to stall. It’s a good challenge that awaits us. ”

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