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With four points behind after the first leg, the Tarn-et-Garonnais kept all their chances. But it was necessary to fight in the second half to tear the qualification.
By receiving Clermont UC Aubière in 32nd finals return from Federal 3, yesterday afternoon by a low and very cloudy sky, Caussade knew all the data of the problem. After the defeat of the first leg to Clermont-Ferrand at the end of an indecisive meeting until the final whistle (25-21), it was necessary to win with 5 points to the sixties in the knockout stages.
On a muscular awakening, in the morning, Alexis Hébrard toreate himself and he was decided to go and get the Bastien Botella ghost, who left with the reserve in Gaillac, to bring him home. Cyril Bigouin was propelled holder. The Caussadais do not miss their start. In less than three minutes, they redid their handicap with two penalties of Théo Chauderon, whose second on a departure from Maxime Palot. A real final phase match where the locals provide the score before thinking about something else with a third penalty from the Caussadais opener (9-0, 12th). It is on an 80-meter revival that Captain Maxime Palot is at the conclusion of the first test of the meeting, between the posts (16-0, 20th). A first half full of composure and realism, with the desire to produce game. 19-0, at the break (Chauderon added three points, 40th+ 1), that’s right.
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Dominique Appy (coach): “I am delighted to cross this level. In difficulty, of course, faced with a beautiful team. We knew it would be difficult, it was. We made a good start to the match, then, in the second half, Clermont put us more difficult. We knew how to find the resources to keep our advance in the score. In the sixteenth, we will receive first. We will study our future opponent of Argentat. We will regenerate to give the best of ourselves. The club’s goal was to progress. The two teams qualified and we will finally play the climb match which was not the goal. If it presents itself, we will take it. I prefer to focus on the next match. We will see if we mark the history of the club even more ”.
Théo Chauderon (opener): “We made a very good first half, just full in our game. We had a little less well in the second. We tried to manage in difficulty. We don’t think about the climb, but we’re going to try to get something. We won for Raphaël Piès to be restored to his injury and come to help us win the next matches. ”
Stephne Chamlali (three fourth center): “I am very proud of the friends who fought next to me, we did not give up. We made a superb first half. They didn’t spend more than three minutes in our camp. We had the ball and put them in difficulty. As in the first leg, we fell back in the second half. What defensive solidarity on the last action that makes it happen! We are going to think of the knockout stages. We will give, just as usual ”.
Collected by R.-C. B.
End of the game
At the start of the second half, a new test is refused to Maxime Palot for a start on the side of the grouping. The Auvergne is then increasingly pressing. They logically register an essay in force by Jérémy Robin before the hour of play, in numerical superiority (19-7, 58th). Ten minutes from the end, Chauderon adjusts a final penalty which allows the Caussadais to give themselves air (22-7, 70th). He takes it because it is still in numerical superiority that visitors register the last test of the meeting by the boiling and dangerous winger Charles Malfreyt who had been refused a test a few moments earlier (22-14, 80th). There is still time, the locals defend for three long minutes in their 22 meters. The match, which was clearly to the advantage of Caussade, could have changed, it will not be.
And now. Caussade spends the 32nd finals and projects himself in the sixteenth in a round trip, against Argentat, who eliminated Guéret 32-5, yesterday afternoon. The first leg will be played in fifteen days in the piboulette. The one who will pass the sixteenths will go up in Federal 2.
CANCADEN 22 Clermont UC Aubier 14
MT: 19-0; Referees: Mr. Marc Sicard (Occitanie) assisted by MM. Lenaic Ovize, Etnicolas Bellvehy.
Winners: 1 e M.Palot (20); 1 T (20) and 5 p th. Chauderon (1, 3, 12, 40+ 1, 70).
Defeated: 2 and Robin (58), Malfreyt (80); 2 t bousquet (58, 80).
US CAUSSADE. Bosca; Bigouin, Cavaillé, Chamlali, Lacharme; (o) Th. Chauderon, (m) Gonzalez; L.Escudié, Mietto, M. Palot (chap.); Betton, Robert; Rivière, N. Piès, Bayse. Entered during the game: Quercy, Bourdoncle, K. Heradi, Khaiza, Antoine, A. Palot, Botella.
Yellow card: Khaiza (52); expulsion : Khaiza (77, second carton jaune).
Clermont UC Aubier Rugby. Nadin; Garcia, R.Vivier, L. Morlat, Malfreyt; (o) Bousquet, (m) causing; Fick, laporte, greeffet; Debaut, Roulin; Lafont, Cohade, vaz. Entered during the game: Betremeux, Combrouze, Benantar, Robin, Pigeonnier, Bordenave, Dietrich.
White card: Morlat (12).
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