After achieving the double last year, the Rouge et Noir stalled this season in the semi-finals of the Champions Cup and the Top 14. Ending the season without a title.
Back to the ordinary for the club that embodies excellence. Stade Toulousain, double champion of France in title, was released Friday in the semi-final by Castres Olympique (24-18). A tough match during which Antoine Dupont and his teammates, far too undisciplined, never managed to get out of the Tarn damper. “After a rather interesting first quarter of an hour, we were on the ground that they master perfectly and we did not manage to attract them to ours, despite some flashes“, observed the Haut-Garonne manager Ugo Mola hotly.
It is therefore tactically that Stade Toulousain was dominated. Unable to reverse the permanent pressure imposed by the Tarnais. Red and Black caught in the aggressiveness and the war of the rucks. “We may have made a little mistake strategically at key moments, recognized winger Matthis Lebel. We knew that the ruck war would be essential and, honestly, the Castres played well. We negotiated badly…
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