Bayonne (AFP)

The prom ball between Bayonne and Brive gave birth to a draw (6-6) on Saturday at the Jean-Dauger Stadium swept by rain and wind on the occasion of the 11th day of Top 14.

This division of points makes the happiness of Corréziens, in front of the break, then abused in the second period, but who knew how to find the resources to snatch the equalization at the last minute on a penalty of Laranjeira.

Jérémy Davidson's players, who only had one point brought back this season after five trips, have also taken a psychological advantage over those of Yannick Bru.

If the Basques finally stop their series of seven losses in a row (3 in the championship, 4 in the European Challenge), they experienced difficulties for almost an hour to make the game. It is far from their idyllic start to the season.

Between two competitors intended to fight for the maintenance, and having regard to the conditions of play, we were a little bored in this meeting. As proof, the first crossing of the match signed Rouet occurred in the 53rd minute, the first for Brive in the 77th when the Aviron had just taken the lead (6-3).

Before that, the scorers had all the trouble in the world to find the target, Barthélémy in particular could not do better than Laranjeira (0-3, 35). And in the current game, only Acquier had obtained a semblance of opportunity by letting the ball escape near the local line.

The new blood injected by Bru did a lot of good for this match. Building on their forwards, well organized in the mauls, the Basques reversed the pressure and finally took the measure of their opponents - penalty from Barthélémy (55) - but without managing to widen the gap, Maka being refused a test for having crawled (68).

This stroke of fate did not hamper their advance and Fajardo sanctioned shortly after a breach of the rules on a touch not defended by the Coujoux (6-3, 76).

But this advantage will only last four short minutes, the time for the CAB to recover a penalty following a lost touch six meters from the Basques' in-goal, converted by the trigger Laranjeira.

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