Le Creusot provided the essentials by securing its first victory. Yet he was laborious for a good 20 minutes after the break.
It was in the final seconds that the offensive bonus test was scored. But just before Busson seriously injured his right shoulder when scoring the 5th try.
It was not the few drops of the night and the morning that made a difference. The terrain of the Parc des Sports is hard as concrete and this Sunday, September 20, while going to register the fifth attempt of the COCB, the winger Busson seriously injured his right shoulder. He was evacuated by firefighters and we fear a fracture …
The infirmary is starting to be full and if we add three red cards distributed to three players of the B by a referee of the committee, the results of the afternoon are not more encouraging than that, beyond the two victories.
Eric Catinot’s players had attacked foot to the ground, since from the first minutes, Lancrenon, after a good catch from Ali in touch, had scored as on the parade. A test transformed by Catinot who came close to 100% success, with only one failure on the last transformer.
The Parisians, players as usual, finally gave a hard time to a team from Le Creusot who wanted, as we can imagine, to take the offensive bonus. She seemed to have started well, giving herself the luxury of leading 34-10 and four tries to one just before the break, on a nice try from Mansour recovering a corner kick from Catinot. But she got into trouble too quickly in the second half, seeing Pontault-Combault not come back to score, but pick up on four tries to three …
For more than 20 minutes, the blue and red were unable to come into the “22” opponents. Fortunately they ended the match with a bang, with a saving try from Busson in the 68th minute, then Nacho Doronzoro who found the promised land in the 82nd minute in the right corner. A test offering the offensive bonus at Le Creusot. Which is a good thing.
For the rest, Le Creusot must gain consistency in order to avoid being scared. But it is true that this is only the beginning of the season.
Alain BOLLERY
(Photos Alain BOLLERY)
Dots
4th: Lancrenon takes advantage of a nice touch well captured by Ali to go diving behind the line. Catinot transforms (7-0)
7th: Collective test of Pontault-Combault, transformed by Laroube, at the end of a penal’touche.
9th: At the exit of a touch well captured by Ali, Robin makes the hole and it is Brachet who will dive into the left corner. Catinot transforms (14-17).
18th: Laroube penalty (14-10).
22nd: Catinot penalty (17-10)
25th: Raviot, injured in the knee, is replaced by Quentin Rodriguez.
29th: Catinot penalty (20-10)
32nd: White card to Lilo de Pontault Combault.
36th: Abbattista takes advantage of a very nice raid to the right of Busson to go for the test. Catinot transforms (27-10)
40th (+3): Mansour takes advantage of a shift at the foot of Catinot to flatten. Catinot transforms (34-10)
48th: Collective test of Pontault-Combault (34-15)
60th: White card to Robin
64th: Catinot does not find the touch on a penalty. Winger Elroto raises by hand, goes up half the field, Pontault-Combault unfolds, the COCB clears but does not find the touch, Elroto recovers, the game goes to the left and the scrum-half Gaudriat passes small to go on trial (34-20).
68th: On a beautiful attack, Catinot offers a caviar to Busson who binds and goes to the test, but is injured. Catinot transforms (41-20).
80th (+2) Doronzoro leads left and will score the bonus try (46-20)
Éric Catinot : “The positive is that we win with the bonus. I was worried about that because of our downsizing. We also did not put a fight in training because of the dryness of the ground, and that was felt today. We find our game in attack, but the problem is that we take too many tries. We will see next week how we will react. “
Julien Loreau (COCB backs coach) : “First of all, it’s a great satisfaction to have won with the bonus for our first game at home. We absolutely wanted to redeem ourselves after the loss last week. We saw a good first half, with play. We scored a lot of tries, but on the other hand we took too much. We have to work on this, but we are on the right track. Another negative point, we still lose a player to injury today (Kévin Busson, Editor’s note). “
Thomas Lancrenon (3/4 center of the COCB) : “We were keen to redeem ourselves after last week’s game, so we made a big start to the game, but then we took a try directly behind, so we had to confirm. Then we had to confirm, and we saw that when we held the ball we managed to go forward. But in defense we are still a little feverish. And when the second half returns, we have to kill the match much earlier. Despite that we take the bonus so it’s a good thing. “
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