After the consecutive receptions of Rouen, Oyonnax and Nevers, and the last three weeks in their nest of Michel-Bendichou – where they came out with tenacity, not without difficulty but also without big wrong notes, with a draw and two successes. Columérins are back on the road today. Direction Hérault, and the Raoul-Barrière stadium to challenge a Béziers, still difficult to maneuver at home and on the upward slope for more than two months. Suffice to say that Colomiers knows where he is stepping, on a lawn from which he has often left empty-handed, and marked with a hot iron (eight defeats in the last nine meetings in Biterre), except for last season. “Today, Béziers is on a very good dynamic. They went through a zone of turbulence in the offseason, but it is behind them now. On the contrary, I even think that they used this adversity to project on the future and they did it brilliantly. Who went to win in Perpignan? It is not given to just anyone, they did it “underlined Julien Sarraute in the middle of a week of preparation well almost ordinary and pretty much normal, after a month of November during which the nerves were strained.
A big test of character
“We are gradually finding players and living forces. But we still lack cohesion. We all need to work together again” recognized a technician who will take the opportunity to breathe life into some players who have been used a lot since the start of the season (we think of Dubois, Larrieu, Granouillet, Lescure, Gori, Perrin, Palisson and Girard) and revive other elements short of competition, such as Chartier, Béco and Maurino, back from injuries, and on the bridge to Raoul -Fence. With four matches (trip to Béziers, reception from Grenoble, trip to Montauban, and reception from Perpignan) which arrive in 18 days before Christmas and with shortened preparation periods, it will in any case be necessary to carry out a large workforce review to keep up. But also in order to “be able to find more quality and also what was our common thread at the beginning of the year, that is to say a controlled turnover. And not suffered” says Julien Sarraute. To suffer, precisely the Columérins never intended to.
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