“As competitors, we want to tickle the best,” promises Diaby (UBB)

“We did not make a fixette on the Toulouse hegemony, it is a reality”said on Saturday the 3rd line of Bordeaux-Bègles Mahamadou Diaby on the eve of facing Toulouse, the most successful club in the Champions Cup, in the semi-finals.

“As competitors, we want to tickle the best, we want to confront this level”said Diaby at a press conference. “But we did not make a fixette on Toulouse hegemony, it is a reality,” he added. They have dominated their subject for several years, they have the method, they have a team a little above the lot. The challenge is great, it motivates us, and as Christmas says (McNamara, three-quarter coach)the big players are motivated by the big challenges ”.

“It’s the best team in terms of titles”

Called to complete the words of his flanker, the melee half and captain of the UBB Maxime Lucu confirmed that “The stats speak for the Toulouse stadium. It is a huge team and especially in this competition ”.

“It’s the best team in terms of titles (six since 1996)necessarily everything is said when we talk about the Toulouse stadium, continued Lucu. The goal is not to focus on them, on their record or the team we have opposite. It’s just exploiting the weaknesses they had in the week, watching what can make us win. We are not yet up to these teams, we are far away ”.

After the 2021 edition where Bordeaux-Bègles had reached for the first time the last square of Champions Cup, beaten by Toulouse (21-9), Captain Girondin estimates that “The more we will register in the best four (clubs) Europeans, the more we will arrive behind entering the charts ”. His keys for Sunday shock? “So much things happen in a rugby match in 80 minutes, it’s hard to talk before. You will have to be elbowed with them for 80 minutes, it may be 100 minutes (with extension) And be sure of our strengths to get something big for the club ”a conclus.