Despite a week of training disrupted by two new positive tests for Covid 19, which had prompted the National Rugby League to postpone the meeting of October 2, originally scheduled, to October 4, Lyon won without trembling.
From the start, in front of an attendance reduced to 1,000 spectators according to a gauge imposed by the Prefecture of the Rhône, the Lyonnais, whose summer training was several times impacted by positive cases, and forced to regularly restrict collective sessions to leave the place to work in small groups, took by the throats of the very timid Bordelais for their first trip of the season.
With nine changes in the starting XV compared to the reception of Brive, visitors gave the impression of lacking collective benchmarks.
The Lyonnais did not need more, put in the direction of the market by the power of Josh Tuisova and Mathieu Bastareaud, the vivacity of Baptiste Couilloud or the play at the foot of Léo Berdeu and Charlie Ngatai.
The Girondins were thus penalized five times in the first thirteen minutes and conceded two penalties (7th, 10).
Then the Lyon opener Léo Berdeu, very active sent a pass to the foot to the Australian flanker, Colby Fainga'a for the first try of the LOU (13-0, 15th).
Temporary exclusion
In the process, Noa Nakaitaci and Toby Arnold missed the opportunity to permanently knock out Bordeaux.
Léo Berdeu continued to punish the opposing faults with the foot (29, 37) and the score was 19-0 at the break.
Lyon were able to seek the offensive bonus but Baptiste Couilloud's teammates seemed to pay off in the second half for their disrupted preparation.
They spoiled a scrum in the opposing 22 meters (49th), then failed to make a breakthrough by the flanker, Patrick Sobela (50th).
The LOU lost control of the match at the end with in particular a temporary exclusion imposed on the 2nd row Izack Rodda.
Bordeaux managed to get a try by hooker Joseph Dweba (22-5, 61st).
Apart from a counter-attack initiated by Noa Nakaitaci (69th), he no longer managed to approach the opposing line but each team however added a try in an unbridled end of the match, by Yoram Moefana for the Bordelais (80th) and by Mickaël Ivaldi for the LOU (80 + 3).
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