Having left for Valence with the idea of doing better than in Agen and Montauban, the CAB quite simply delivered its worst match since its descent to Pro D2. And even for a very long time.
So I might as well tell you that when it was time to appear in front of the microphones, Patrice Collazo looked like he had (very) bad days.
“Today, we weren’t invited. We weren’t facing each other. Valencia played rugby very well. We watched them for the first 25 minutes. One team was playing rugby, the other was watching. next time, we’ll be in the stands. We’ve had our heads broken, period,” said the sports manager.
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The departure on Monday towards the Drôme, so as not to suffer the fatigue of the journey, will therefore have been of no use in the face of Valentinois who simply wanted more.
“We didn’t exist in any sector of the game. The defense, not there. The lineout, not there. The scrum, not there. In fact, we didn’t show up at Valencia, but we were singled out by Valencia “.
And Patrice Collazo rewinds the film of the preparation for the meeting. “I must not have warned them enough during the week. The message should not have been clear. We were bludgeoned. The excuses of injuries, team changes, I don’t want them. There were fifteen of them , there were fifteen of us. We wondered what we were doing there.”
How to start differently
However, the manager had been clear enough, including during the pre-match press briefing. As a result, he “was not surprised by what Valence offered us. We had seen what they had done against Biarritz or at Nevers. What is certain is that this evening (this Wednesday) , Valencia did not beat a candidate in the top 6. I thought we had taken the measure of Pro D2, but to go through it like that, it challenges me. What we did before no longer counts . For me, the counters are reset to zero.”
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For the Brivist manager, things are ultimately simple: “They gave us a rugby lesson. We took it. What interests me is to know how we will react. In any case, this block, we can put an end to it. We need to think about how to start differently.”
Off topic, Brive lost to Valencia 45-10. Replay the live.
A Valence, Pascal Goumy
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