Collected by our correspondent in Toulon
What are the causes of the defeat of Stade Français?
Gonzalo Quesada:
We had a lot of indiscipline.
This is one of the factors of the game that has gone wrong.
We lose and we can blame ourselves only, even if the arbitration was a little harsh.
In the second half, we could not hope for better at 14 against 15. The players gave everything ...
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What's crazy is that in the first half, in areas where we feared Toulon, especially with its very powerful forwards, we were on a level playing field.
On the balls carried, on the scrum, we are in place.
In the management too, we were not too bad.
Afterwards, we had a power deficit.
Toulon, in full confidence, it is very strong.
They have the players to make a very direct game.
But yes, we were in place at the start of the match.
We defended well.
Then, three or four errors… We stay with this image at the end, but at the start of the game, Toulon did not dominate.
These errors, these missed tackles, these conceded penalties… We returned to the break with too big a deficit.
There was no longer a match with the red card.
We are in a period of no confidence, we did everything we should not do to have a chance tonight (
Sunday evening
).
“
I am very disappointed with our first period.
We gave the points to Toulon
”
A domination for twenty minutes which, however, proved sterile.
Where I am disappointed in the first period is that Toulon needed two or three playing times to get through thanks to a lot of missed tackles.
We had to do a lot of phases of the game to create mini-crossings and move forward.
They had tries without making a lot of great playing times. There were three tries with errors.
I am disappointed with this first period.
We should have finished a lot closer to them at the break.
We gave the advantage to Toulon, we gave the points to Toulon.
I am very disappointed with this first period.
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What do you think of the red card received by Nicolas Sanchez?
I would like to see the video on Nico again… It's very hard for him.
It is normal that he is so disappointed when he comes out.
He is very committed to this team.
He works a lot, he trains very hard, he tries to help all the players in the squad in several sectors.
He wants the team to progress.
It does not save in terms of effort.
He was very excited by this challenge to come back as a starter to Toulon.
He had left us for a long time (
to compete in the Tri Nations with Argentina in Australia, editor's note
), we decided to continue with the dynamic of Joris (
Segonds
).
He couldn't play.
He looks forward to this opportunity.
He had prepared well.
In a rare moment when the aggressiveness slider was turned up, unfortunately, he put his shoulder in the wrong place.
I don't know if there are extenuating circumstances.
I think there might be red, but it's hard for him.
I know him, right now, he's self-flagging ...
Is this the turning point of the match?
At 15 against 15, I think the score would have been less heavy.
Today was very hard.
We had a great Toulon against us, a very good team, with a good state of mind.
Toulon had a lot of determination.
It makes sense that he has been undefeated for a very long time at Mayol.
Me, it's not the victory or the defeat that disappoints me tonight.
It's all the lack of management in the first half.
We did not know how to make the task hard in Toulon.
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