Mathieu WARNIER, Media365, published on Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 10:55 p.m.
Last of the Top 14 before the match, Stade Français Paris won on its lawn against Clermont (22-14) and found color in a complicated start to the season.
A reaction was expected, it did take place. With their backs to the wall with only one victory since the start of the season, Stade Français Paris had to win this Sunday against Clermont at the end of the 6th day of the Top 14. Faced with a team which did not succeed in these In recent years, Gonzalo Quesada’s players have not played with fear in their stomachs. Indeed, the start of the match was absolutely unbridled with the two teams who sent the game and Sekou Macalou could have opened the scoring in the 8th minute if he had not lost control of the ball just before flattening . However, it was only a postponement for the Club de la Capitale. Announced on the departure at the end of the season, Waisea confirmed that he was still there. The Fijian winger was perfectly served on a game at the foot of Joris Segonds to flatten in the corner the first try of the meeting. Clumsy on the transformation, the Parisian opening half recovered well five minutes later to improve a ground fault by Edward Annandale. After a hand fault, Sekou Macalou saw a try denied him a second time in the 20th minute.
Waisea always at the rendezvous
The Parisian third row, this time, crawled to the ground after being tackled in an attempt to score. A gesture that the referee has logically sanctioned with a penalty. In the process, JJ Hanrahan unlocked the Clermont counter after an offside position on the Stade Français Paris side. Continuing to send the game, even if it means being imprecise, the players of Gonzalo Quesada did not have much success but they were all the same able to push the Auvergne defense into error. Shortly before the half-hour mark, Joris Segonds widened the gap in favor of the Club de la Capitale. But two penalties signed by JJ Hanrahan in the six minutes leading up to the break allowed the Jaunards to limit the damage with a delay of only two points when they returned to their locker room. As in the first act, the Parisians were willing and this state of mind ended up paying off nine minutes after the resumption. Shifted to the right wing, Waisea left three Clermont defenders in place to flatten his second personal try in this meeting, without Joris Segonds finding the target on the transformation. Dominators in melee at the start of the match, the players of the Capital saw the Clermontois raise their level with the entry of fresh blood.
Clermont lets out more than the defensive bonus
But the penalty obtained shortly before the hour mark was missed by JJ Hanrahan, who then slipped from the position of opening half to that of winger when Camille Lopez entered the game. The Auvergnat regain of form was confirmed on the scoreboard when, in the 62nd minute, Alivereti Raka stood out. After an acceleration of Damian Penaud, the relay of Cheikh Tiberghien allowed the French international winger to give Parisian supporters a cold sweat. In the process, Thomas Lavanini had a golden opportunity to give the advantage to ASM. Managing to counter a clearance from Joris Segonds, the Argentinian second-line could not control the ball at the foot of the posts, committing a forward while the test was all cooked. An opportunity that did not arise again at the end of the match which allowed Joris Segonds, on two new penalties, to take Clermont out of the defensive bonus. The Stade Français Paris regains color with this victory (22-14) and leaves Biarritz in last place in the standings on the difference in points. Clermont, for its part, continues to alternate the good and the less good and is only one point ahead of the red lantern.
TOP 14 / 6TH DAY
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Biarritz – Lyon : 5-40
Bordeaux-Begles – Montpellier : 27-23
La Rochelle – Castres : 29-10
Racing 92 – Perpignan : 17-14
Toulouse – Pau : 38-10
Toulon – Brive : 13-9
Sunday October 10, 2021
Stade Français Paris – Clermont : 22-14
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