MHR managed a top-class performance given the context with a full-blown full-back returning to his former club.
Julien Tisseron played five years at Aviron bayonnais before joining Hérault in 2020. Against his former club he scored a magnificent brace, but that doesn’t say everything about his game. Right from the start we saw him confident in his high ball catches, clearances, long play and raises. Perfect and well-arranged schemes. But these two attempts at the end of the match deserved the away trip: a good sprint in a corridor outside Lam; then receiving a kick pass, followed by an instant mini kick to himself. But the rear of the MHR refused to talk too much about him. We forced his modesty a little: “ On the first one I just had to finish, there was a delay after a tighter defense and a good three quarter game. On second, I had the favorable rebound and just had to run. This victory is unexpected given our start. But we didn’t panic, we just decided to cut back a bit. My performance is anecdotal. I thought that for three quarters of us it was a somewhat particular game, very eventful, we only touched balls every four or five minutes. »
Julien Tisseron has never known a selection, his name remains somewhat unknown to the general public, but Philippe Saint-André reminded us that he had played a lot last year and that only an injury had deprived him of the final stages: “ Yes, I didn’t live the title, it’s a small regret that stays in the back of my mind. I experienced a new blow early in the season with a K.-O. It is a pleasure to relive and rediscover one’s feelings. When you don’t have a streak, it’s always special. »
On Saturday he scored his 26th and 27th tries as a pro, including 10 in the Top 14 (he experimented with the Pro D2 when at Bayonne).
Offensive joust
Philippe Saint-André had put Anthony Bouthier and Paolo Garbisi on vacation, and Julien Tisseron was able to take advantage of it. It was only his second assignment of the season after the one he spent at Castres on 8 October. The coach of him could not miss his top performance. He was part of the MHR offensive carousel.
But Julien Tisseron did not touch the ball in the real moment of grace of this match: this first try by Hérault scored in stoppage time in the first act against Darmon who set off for a 50-metre run, with an unstoppable cross for Louis Carbonel, and Léo Coly to finish. MHR took the reins on this masterful blow (13-8 at rest). We absolutely wanted to talk about it because there was a trace of it.
