While they had started well, the Narbonnaises sinned as usual in the finish.
It is a start of the most encouraging that the Narbonnaises made on the lawn of Dijon. A touch, a carried ball, and now Markuc escapes into the in-goal. The transformation is missed, but after seven minutes of play, Racing settles in the game. He will stay there for a while longer, relying on a good conquest, in particular on a strongly dominating closed scrum. But now, half an hour into the game, the scoreboard has not changed (0 to 5), and the Audoises are preparing to commit irreparable damage and fall back into their ways.
Authoritarian Dijonnaises
Ambitious in the game, they were countered twice and thus put their hosts back in the game during the break (10 to 5). If there is no fire in the house, however, the match changes in appearance. Reinvigorated by the turn of events, the Dijonnaises forget their last place in the standings and become more pressing, more authoritarian.
Opposite the RCN is without reaction, and the sanction falls with two additional tries in the first quarter of an hour of the second act. The “orange and black” try to react but come up against their eternal problem, the finish. There is no longer any question of seeking victory, especially as Dijon plays with the rules and goes to simulated scrums.
Nevertheless, this bonus point should be removed from this rival in the race to maintain. The Narbonnaises stick to it, camp in the 22 opposing meters, familiar with the try line….in vain. It is therefore a very bad operation that the RCN brings back from its trip to the Côte-d’Or.
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A Dijon. Stade Bourillot.
Half-time: 10-5.
Arbitration of M. Ramirez.
For Dijon: 4 tries Hannoyer (29), Tomasello (39), Arnaud (46), Arbel (55).
For Narbonne: 1 essay Markuc (7).
Narbonne: Gacheniard, Marsero, Bispe, Lannes, Lajou, Markuc, Rayssac, Gatumel, (m) Visa, (o) Urbes, Tailhades, Fini, Sanchez, Pennaneac’h, Casato ; Caroujel, Cunha, Raynal, Richard de Latour, Patrac, Baget.
M. M.
