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Can Racing 92 bounce back to save its season?

2020-10-18T17:27:49.751Z


Defeated for the third time since 2016 in the final of the European Cup, the Ile-de-France club must evacuate its disappointment while continuing the


We will have to cure the hangover in the ranks of Racing.

The one that invites itself in the aftermath of defeat and that plunges you into doubt.

An hour after the whistle of Welsh referee Nigel Owens who offered the Champions Cup to Exeter (31-27), in the bowels of Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol, manager Laurent Travers used a metaphor to describe the psychological situation of his troops.

“It's like when you fall from your horse, you will have to get back into the saddle quickly because you are not at the end of the season.

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The native of Sarlat knows it better than anyone, his club will not have too much time to afford a proper introspection.

Because the calendar of competitions, upset this year by the Covid-19 epidemic and the stopping of the European Cup in spring at the start of the quarters, placed the continental final at the start of the season.

Avoid the Clermont scenario

Exeter will hardly have lifted the trophy when he will put it back into play since the draw is scheduled for October 28.

No respite therefore for the Ile-de-France residents who are already seeing the derby against Stade Français from next Saturday.

“Some Racing players (Chat, Colombe, Le Roux and Klemenczak) will also leave this week for the France team and others with their selection (Juan Imhoff, Finn Russell), notes the former club manager Pierre Berbizier.

The workforce will therefore disperse when it would need to meet and plan immediately on a match.

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The former coach of the XV of France believes that the Ile-de-France club has the means to recover so as not to remain on three failures in the European final (2016, 2018, 2020).

And avoid a scenario that Clermont may have known which had made the Champions Cup a priority like Racing.

But after three failures (2013, 2015 and 2017), the Auvergnats are marking time.

“Racing has ample means to recover, Judge Berbizier.

It remains to be seen how the big frustration heard in the mouths of some players after the match will translate.

Towards positive or negative energy?

For the moment, we notice that the team is asking more questions, especially about its strategic hesitations in the last ten minutes of the final, than it is providing answers.

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"The team can enter a zone of turbulence, like a burn-out"

Eric Blanc, another former member of the Ciel et Blanc house, is not worried about the capacity of the workforce to draw a line on the disappointment of this Saturday even if he recognizes that the team can "enter the zone of turbulence, a bit like a burnout ”.

"Apart from the failed start and the tactical choices at the end of the game, the players showed a lot of virtues, solidarity and generosity to afford a match point that they did not convert", analyzes the 'old three-quarter center.

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So many qualities which according to Blanc will allow them to “wash their brains”, especially as many young people like Kolingar or Colombe have confirmed and constitute “solid foundations for the future”.

“It's painful,” he admits.

Those in the group who have already experienced three defeats in the final will be more marked.

But it is proper to the athlete to succeed in remobilizing himself.

“And nothing like a derby against the Parisian neighbor to re-mobilize an entire club.

Source: leparis

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