• If the 3rd line Charles Ollivon was elected player of the match against Australia (30-29), Saturday at the Stade de France, Damian Penaud was the savior of the Blues.

  • The Clermont winger scored a splendid try in the last minutes of the game, to allow his team to sign an 11th consecutive success.

  • Dave Rennie, the Wallabies coach, could only bow to the jewel of "one of the best wingers in the world".

In the course of a portrait published this week in

L'Equipe

, we learned that in addition to video games and chess, Damian Penaud had taken a passion for cooking.

The Clermont cordon-bleu also entertained the Stade de France this Saturday evening, bringing out the caviar when the public had until then only been entitled to lump eggs served by the Blues little inspired by chef Fabien Galthié .

"He's one of the best wingers in the world," blew, annoyed, Dave Rennie, the coach of Australia beaten by a breath (30-29).

“The end of the match is incredible, with a try of which Damian has the secret”, appreciated as a gourmet the pillar Cyril Baille, already out for a lease when the dashing Auvergnat flattened his 19th achievement in 35 selections.

The stopwatch then displayed very exactly 75 minutes and 37 seconds which, on the scale of rugby, gives an idea of ​​the urgency in which the French were.


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We rewind for the distracted from the bottom (and we go to the present, it's more fun for the narration): thanks to a penalty from returning Reece Hodge (75th), the Wallabies have a four-point lead (25-29).

We then begin to think that Australia, the last team to have tamed the Blues (33-30, July 17, 2021), will fill in a tunnel of 10 victories that the French had not dug since the 1930s. I don't think we panicked, ”assures Antoine Dupont.

“We knew we weren't in a good position, but also that we were able to put them in difficulty in the game. We had already had chances.

And there, there is a flash of Damian.

We benefit from the quality of the players in this group.

»

Matthieu Jalibert decisive

Let's resume our epic story: French dismissal after the penalty passed by Hodge, Australian clearance and recovery of the ball 30 meters from Matthieu Jalibert, entered in the 58th minute in place of an irrelevant Romain Ntamack.

UBB's quicksilver opener is taken.

But we find him two playing times later, to offer a wonderful long pass to Penaud, one of the rare Frenchmen so far to have succeeded in bleeding breakthroughs (32nd, 72nd).

It's all very nice, well done, but the case is still far from over.

Wedged in his right lane, the son of Alain, former international No. 10 with big talent and big character, still has 30 meters to go to the promised land, as we said at the time of Roger Couderc.



That's when the magic happens, first with a kidney-breaking "tchic-tchac" on winger Tom Wright, who had had the misfortune to put a wind to Penaud on the first (and sublime) Australian try of 100 meters.

Jock Campbell in turn tries to tame the fiery Clermont stallion.

But the rear, author of a test for his second selection, takes a fuss which cuts his desires clean.

A future between Clermont and Toulouse?

Thomas Ramos, author of 20 points and a nice 7/9 on foot, does not even need to succeed in the corner transformation.

The Blues won and they owe it in large part to the talent of their winger at the end of his contract, whose future seems to oscillate between ASM, ready to melt the statue of Vercingetorix to keep him, and the Blues factory of Toulouse Stadium.

But in the immediate future, it is the Marseille public that Penaud will delight next week, for the shock against South Africa, world champion in title boulottée this Saturday by Ireland (18-15)

Thomas Ramos, author of 20 points and a nice 7/9 on foot, does not even need to succeed in the corner transformation.

The Blues won and they owe it in large part to the talent of their winger at the end of his contract, whose future seems to oscillate between ASM, ready to melt the statue of Vercingetorix to keep him, and the Blues factory of Toulouse Stadium.

But in the immediate future, it is the Marseille public that Penaud will treat next week, for the shock against South Africa, world champion in title boulottée this Saturday by Ireland (18-15).

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