Brive-la-Gaillarde (AFP)

Stade Français, the Red Lantern of the Top 14, this time stumbled to Brive, solid and realistic (26-21), but brings a valuable defensive bonus in the race to maintain Sunday on the 10th day.

A true match of fear, this reunion two weeks after a confrontation in European Challenge won by Brive to Jean-Bouin (27-11) have still smiled on the team most confident, if not the most enterprising.

For their debut in the league, the tandem of Parisian coaches Laurent Sempere - Julien Arias, converted to save the pink soldiers from a descent that would work for the biggest budget of the Top 14, have certainly not won, but are the first to take a point in Brive this season.

With only 10 points in the wallet, the mission of the two novices appears very complex even if their players have shown sequential qualities essential for the maintenance.

"We saw some players who start to rebel, who did not let go, that's fine, positivised Arias.There is a pack of fronts that were rather dominating. , We are on the right path"

The Corréziens and their impregnable fortress since the beginning of the season in which Clermont, Toulon, Toulouse and UBB broke their teeth, have still resisted Parisians back.

This new success allows the men of Jeremy Davidson (7th, 22 pts) to pick up the 6th La Rochelle (22 pts) and blow a good shot.

"It was tough, strong in terms of commitment," said CAB captain Saïd Hirèche, "they came with the real intention of being at the level of the state of mind. sent as dogs to win this game even if I do not know if it's deserved. "

- The fray saves Paris -

When that does not help Despite his ranking, the Stade has made the most of the game but has run into his lack of confidence: penalty Nicolas Sanchez failed (3rd), penalty stolen by Voisin (5th), ahead in the Jonathan Danty (7th) who will leave his partners ten minutes to 14 for a headline (12th), not to mention this long sterile conservation leading to a penalty Brive ... Thomas Laranjeira success (6-3, 21st).

And when they found themselves in excess, it was first a pass ahead of Danty who sealed their intentions (24th). And what about this jump attempted by Sanchez and intercepted by his compatriot Axel Muller direction test (25th).

Six minutes later, he handed the rods to pierce a stunned Stadium punished by the power of Karlen Asieshvili (20-3, 31). "There is also positive because we could have collapsed, this is what happened in the past," said Stadist captain Yoann Maestri, praising "the self-denial" of his own. "We did the round back and we came back well".

Paris then returned to his fray, the only sector not suffering the comparison. The last one before the break led to Julien Delbouis' corner essay synonymous with hope. That at the hour of play on that of Kylan Hamdaoui putting everything in question at the level of the mark (23-18).

Under pressure continues since the return of the locker room, the CAB had then all the difficulties to exist offensively, being content to tighten its lines vis-a-vis the waves more or less inspired.

The indiscipline relieved the Stadium much less noisy after the break and allowed Laranjeira to investigate the penalty of the victory (26-18, 77th). In the wake, Joris Segonds answered him for the bonus and therefore hope.

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