If he was looking for a reference match, Christophe Urios surely found it. Faced with a LOU who completed his rugby marathon of three matches in nine days in Chaban and, suddenly, lacked flame or second wind sometimes, theUBB responded present and enhanced an important success.
This match was summed up in two cycles of ten minutes. The first ten, exclusively from Lyon, put the Girondine defense to work, but the latter, organized and fierce, finally released only a successful penalty by Léo Berdeu (10 ‘).
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Then, at the end of the first quarter of an hour, the Union feasted for ten minutes, shaking the LOU on each impact by constant progress. Result, Lyon cracked where Bordeaux had held, and in great width: three tests conceded including a double from the Argentine winger Bautista Delguy for his first at Chaban.
On the first (17 ‘), the Pumas winger was served by a chistera from Rémi Lamerat for a corner try after a very long dynamic highlight. On the second (22 ‘), it is an acceleration of which the opener Matthieu Jalibert has the secret, and has made himself a specialty, which put him into orbit.
Finally, Cameron Woki, already a scorer against Toulon, put it back by finding an interval against Rhone then overwhelmed (25 ‘). The international flanker could not finish the match, injured in the ankle in the second period.
By passing 24 points in 13 minutes, there was enough to give a big headache to Pierre Mignoni’s men, especially since those of Urios did not lower the pressure in defense.
A penalty from Berdeu just before the break, like that of his replacement Charlie Ngatai (54 ‘), brought Lyon back to the score (24-9), but they were also the symbol of a lack of offensive ambitions, at least to remove the offensive bonus of a direct opponent for the qualification.
The Girondins, despite a sometimes heckled scrum as against the RCT last week, did not stop there. They scored a fourth time by entering Jandre Marais, after a new Delguy eel festival (59 ‘), and at the end they resisted four unproductive visiting penalties.
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