The Carcassonnais, not yet definitively assured of their maintenance, could get closer to qualifying places.
Usually, they are called “pivotal matches”. For one reason or another. In this specific case, we can do it for two reasons. Indeed, USC, if successful, would effectively kill two birds with one stone. The Audois would not only ensure their maintenance in Pro D2 (almost, not yet mathematically), and at the same time approach the last qualifying place (still far, it’s true). In any case, they would come back five lengths from Nevers (7th), or even four, in the event of an improved victory (to be optimistic, let’s be so until the end…).
“Attention, warns manager Christian Labit, we are on a good dynamic, but a setback at home could put our heads upside down. Nevers is one of the biggest budgets of Pro D2. They usually travel by … plane (not there ???). And then, he remains on four games without a win (two defeats at home against Grenoble and Colomiers all the same), one, perhaps more surprising, in Rouen, and a draw … on the leader’s field, in Vannes. Take a closer look … “
It is a wounded beast that the Carcassonnais will challenge later. To secure the future. Or even better. It’s now or never, now or Nevers, as our best English enemies say. Let’s face it, they invented rugby… through cheating, when Webb-Ellis grabbed the ball in his hand in the middle of a soccer match. In short, it is the British who invented rugby, but, in the end, it is sometimes the French who win.
4 questions to… Steven McMahon: “I’m back”
You are (again) titular. Can we imagine that it’s nice?
I don’t know if you can imagine? I do ! Three months without playing, working alone, in the gym, or only with the physiotherapist by your side, while your friends are together in the field, it’s hard.
What exactly were you suffering from? n prognosis?
Feet. It’s not the foot … After problems with the arch of the foot, I suffered a stress fracture. Now it’s OK. I’m back !
A prediction on the match of the day?
I only have good memories of our oppositions against Nevers, at Domec. If we never won there, we never lost here. Our end of the season will depend on the result of this new confrontation. Unfortunately, we will still play behind closed doors. Today, we are more aware of the importance of public input. And then, I do not know the effect that the postponement of the game will have from Thursday to Sunday? It disrupted the organization of our training a bit.
If you had to take stock of your season, personally?
I would have liked to play more often. But every time I did, I gave it my all.
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