While waiting to know the nature of the serious injury to its scrum half Maxime Machenaud, Bayonne announced Tuesday that the three-quarter center Guillaume Martocq (26 years old), also injured this weekend during the defeat of Aviron in Pau, suffered from a rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament and would be absent for three months.
New blow for Bayonne. The serious knee injury to the experienced Rowing scrum half Maxime Machenaud (36), who left in tears shortly after coming on Saturday during his team’s heavy defeat on the pitch in Pau (47-24) and probably the victim of a ruptured cruciate ligament without being able to think about the end of his career if that is the case, unfortunately masked a whole list of players for Bayonne. also injured on the Hameau lawn this weekend.
Among the many unfortunate people from this trip to Béarn on the Basque side was Guillaume Martocq (26 years old). Seriously injured in one knee, like Machenaud, the Bayonne center three-quarters who has appeared three times as a starter since the start of the season and regularly used by Grégory Patat underwent examinations at the start of the week which revealed a rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament. The former player from Carcassonne (Pro D2), where he was loaned during the 2020-2021 season, will be absent for approximately three months.
A list of injured which becomes endless…
Winger Tom Lévèque, who had taken Martocq’s place on the pitch but was also injured, only nine minutes after coming into play, suffered from a sprained ankle. Rowing is crossing its fingers that it is not serious, especially since Arthur Iturria also returned injured from Pau during this decidedly dark Saturday for the Bayonnais. The Rowing captain suffers from cervical trauma with concussion. And if Lévèque had lasted nine minutes after replacing Martocq, Baptiste Chouzenoux, called onto the pitch to compensate for Iturria’s injury, was not so lucky.
It was in fact after only… eight minutes that the third wing had to return to the sidelines after being hit in the right biceps tendon. The Blue and White’s misfortunes did not end there, since Sireli Maqala (right ankle) and Ewan Johnson, also the victim of a sprained knee, were also injured during this meeting. They all joined at the same time an already very full infirmary (Germain, Capilla, Moon, Calles, Tagi, Cormenier, Castillon, Tatafu, Fischer, Bruni, Jantjies and Hodge…) and increasingly full.
