Agen (AFP)

Lyon, almost unstoppable for two months, provided the essentials by winning on the field of the red lantern Agen (19-16), who showed the best, Sunday on the occasion of the 8th day of Top 14.

The LOU did not tremble in Armandie by chaining a 5th game without defeat (4 wins and 1 draw).

Or very little in the end of the match that the locals spiced up by going for a defensive bonus on a try from Tapu Falatea after a penalty mark (78th), but too late to completely reverse the situation.

Without being brilliant, Pierre Mignoni's men, more powerful and better in the rucks, were able to make the difference around half-time by inflicting an unstoppable 13-0 with a try from Toby Arnold (36th), the transformation and two Jonathan Wisniewski penalties.

The SUA, in self-management this week after the ousting of its manager Christophe Laussucq and his forwards coach Rémi Vaquin and the taking over of the group by President Jean-François Fonteneau in person, showed a completely different face than during the humiliation brought back from Bordeaux (71-5).

It was the minimum expected.

His conquest more than rivaled that of the Lyonnais but it is surely his clumsiness - 14 lost balls - which prevented him from gleaning a first success this season.

The start of the match, marked by the KO of Mathieu Bastareaud (4th) and the premature exit of the Englishman Gabriel Ibitoye, the No. 1 offensive weapon of the Agenais who was returning from injury, was rather balanced before the LOU did not. accelerated.

Not by the tightrope walker Noa Nakaitaci whose test was invalidated in the video (20th) for a forward, but by Arnold, at the conclusion of an action that started from a conquering scrum and an interval taken by Xavier Mignot (6-13, 36).

The weakness in the ground game of the Lot-et-Garonnais sanctioned by the visiting scorer (6-19, 44), it took an extra soul for Agen to return to the game.

In the wake of Camille Gérondeau and Nathan Decron, ubiquitous, the AUS pushed back its opponent and ended up fetching a point synonymous with hope.

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