Back from a four-day internship in the Landes, the UBB plunged into the preparation of the semi-final which awaits it on Saturday in Lyon against Toulonnais who only made Castres bite last weekend. On the Girondin side, distrust is also to be put before finding this RCT which had swelled the European champions on June 1.
Freshly haloed by its coronation in Champions Cup, the first trophy in the history of the club, the Union Bordeaux-Bègles is now starting to dream of lifting the Brennus shield, on June 28 in the sky of the Stade de France. A second potential title for these Girondins who had never tasted any before before starting this exercise which first goes through a victory against Toulon, Saturday evening (9:05 pm) in Lyon in the second semi-final of the Top 14 season (Editor’s note: the first will oppose Toulouse to Bayonne on Friday evening).
However, this RCT does not say anything good to the European champions, who had drank the cup against the Varois recently on the lawn of the Mayol stadium in the league (27-10), certainly with a team seriously altered that day, a week after the European Cup final (NDLR: Yannick Bru had then admitted that the beer had made the brains of its players less effective) and this six months after having had manage to win at the Chaban-Delmas stadium, there too on behalf of the Top 14.
Bru: “They have a dynamic on the start of the match”
What fear the reunion with Melvyn Jaminet and his partners at the highest point. Especially since this weekend, while the Girondins were in the Landes for a four-day internship, Toulon did not have a neighborhood at home against Castres (52-23 victory) in one of the two dams on the program. Jefferson Poirot and his teammates, who are particularly wary of the RCT pack, do not hide their concern five days from this semi-final.
“On the defensive aspect, especially the ruck, they resemble us a little. They seek to win this battle from the ball to the ground. This is the kind of team that deprives us of speed, our fast ruck outings, ”says the international hooker in the columns of The team. Bruis, for its part, fears the first minutes of the meeting. “We know very well that they have a dynamic with them on the start of the match. »It is an extension of the party, so beautiful in Bordeaux since May 24.
