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Montauban facing the mountain “Oyo”

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The USM receives Oyonnax tonight in its lair in Sapiac. Not a gift for Tarn-et-Garonnais who remain on two consecutive defeats…

Never two without three ? All of Montauban hopes that the “green and black” players will manage to contradict this maxim this evening in their Sapiac bowl. The men of the duo Jeff Dubois-Jean Bouilhou indeed remain on two setbacks in a row, while they swore to have turned the page on an irregular 2019, not to say frankly mediocre year, which ended with five setbacks in six games. A revival of envy symbolized by the first offensive bonus of the season gleaned in the first game of 2020 at Sapiac against Valence-Romans, despite 80 minutes not fully completed.

But Biarritz (27-30) and especially Soyaux-Angoulême (16-35) took care of putting the feet of the Sapiacans back on earth. “We didn’t exist in the first half,” concedes laconically Jérémy Chaput, the scrum half, about the Charentais failure. “We watched them play in the first period. We were caught on speed, we were not ready to face this start to the match,” analyzes coach Jeff Dubois, who nevertheless hoped to have started a positive dynamic after the six points taken (out of ten possible) during the first two meetings of 2020.

It’s been an eternal restart for two seasons. When we believe in a thinning, a downpour comes to shower the mythical basin. This evening, the Montalbanais will have to pass between the drops.

“Release the best game of the season”

“We must all be determined to be impregnable at home, motivates Chaput. Even if I have said it several times this season and that it did not necessarily happen”, counterbalances the one who will wear number 22 tonight. He is referring to the three failures of players from the city of Ingres at home (Colomiers, Carcassonne, Nevers). To which must be added the draw against Soyaux-Angoulême (19-19).

So Oyonnax, mission impossible? “We will have to raise our level of play against a top team. Oyo, it’s much stronger than Soyaux, Biarritz or Valence-Romans. It’s a great challenge. We have to come out with the best game of the season . We can do it, “said Jeff Dubois, who has an all-black center Benson Stanley on the bench tonight after returning from a two-month break after an impressive concussion in his first game at Aurillac.

In front of the Tarn-et-Garonnais, the players of the Ain absolutely need a victory to stay hooked on the infernal leading wagon driven by Grenoble, Colomiers and Perpignan. Especially since the dove players came to prevail on the meadow of Sapiac before the holidays (21-19). They would also put pressure on Isérois and Catalans who will be the next visitors to Sapiac. And finally plunge the Montalbanais in serious doubt, they who had some tough discussions following the appointment, it is true, unexpected of Florian Ninard to the sports management of the club. The former back of Stade Toulousain and La Rochelle would inevitably blow a sigh of relief tomorrow, when he takes office, if the Montalbanais offered him four points as a welcome gift …

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