The defensive bonus, and that’s it!

Maigre consolation pour les Nîmois : pour une fois, ils ne sont pas revenus les poches vides. Armand veron

Nationale 2/17e journée. À côté de son sujet, le RC Nîmes a été dominé dans les grandes largeurs.

Rumilly25

Nîmes18

Stade des Grangettes.

Half-time: 20-8.

Referee: M. Favier.

For Rumilly: 4 tries, Lopez (6th), Angelier (13th), Le Garff (36th), Corbex (43rd); 1 transformation, Guigue (36th); 1 penalty, Guigue (8th).

Yellow card: Lopez (57th).

For Nîmes: 2 tries, Barnerias (9th), Pouyleau (57th); 1 conversion, Gensana (57th), 1 penalty, Gensana (28th).

Yellow cards: Gonzalez (7th, 34th), Qeleca (17th).

Red card: Gonzalez (34th)

Score evolution:3-0, 8-0, 8-5, 13-5, 13-8, 20-8, 25-8, 25-15, 25-18.

A trip to Haute-Savoie as a foretaste of the final phases for the Nîmes. Faced with Rumillians stung after their defeat in Dijon, the Nîmes knew that it would be necessary to tick all the boxes of commitment, intensity, rigor, discipline and realism to hope, finally, to reconnect with a victory away from their bases. It failed but the RCN at least limited the damage by obtaining the defensive bonus, we don't really know how.

Indiscipline and red card

The start was not reassuring. Penalized four times, lacking in conquest with two lost touches, punished with a yellow card, the Nîmes let Rumilly take control of the match (8-0). The essay by Captain Benjamin Barnerias was only an illusion, as the Haut-Savoyards dominated their subject… and the Nîmes. Rumilly played his luck bravely on all the balls, with success, as evidenced by this new try from winger Angelier (13-5).

With the second yellow card for the second row David Gonzalez, synonymous with expulsion, the affairs of the RCN were complicated. Rumilly took the opportunity to score a third try before the break (20-8).

At the restart, the RCN continued to blurt out its rugby while Rumilly recited a simple score but effective, like this fourth powerful try from its forwards, after a penetrating group (25-8).

Nîmes tried to react but stumbled on a solid defense, hard to break down. The Pouyleau pillar's try and Chastaing's penalty, at the very end of the match, however allowed the RCN to take a defensive bonus point. A lesser evil. Was it deserved ? That’s another story.

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