La Rochelle (AFP)
La Rochelle has just four penalties to overcome in the rain of Racing 92 (12-6), now barragiste, after a closed match and bitter Saturday night, on the occasion of the 8th day of Top 14.
The important thing is the four points. The Maritimes, extremely fragile conquest for a period, will not say the opposite after a wet fight they took the reins around the hour of play, not to let go of them by taking advantage of the big indiscipline visitor.
Still victorious in his den of Deflandre this season, the Stade takes the opportunity to enter the Top 6 for the first time this season, in 5th place.
For its part, Racing, worse home training, hoped to redo Pau. In vain. He ran out of ammunition to achieve this despite a large number of balloons stolen in touch and left without a single point.
It is cruel in light of his first act, less if one relies on his production and his indiscipline after the break. The men of Laurent Travers may also grumble the last penaltouche after the siren, the only truly frank action they had during this game but they have not been able to convert.
Given the conditions, do not expect to see flights this Saturday night. Slippery ball, bad choice, scorers little success, we rather pulled out the panoply of winter rugby on the edges of the ocean.
In this little game, it was the Parisians who initially got away with it, thanks to their scrum and the difficulties of the Maritimes to deploy their game.
The latter have raised the bar in the fall of James (51), master of the alternation, who put his own in the advance and converted three penalties in fifteen minutes. Sufficient to win.
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