After more than two months of famine and six defeats which condemned his managerial duo Nicolas Godignon - Frédéric Manca, the famous electroshock worked.
For the first of his trio Paul Tito, Thomas Domingo, Geoffrey Lanne-Petit, novices in Top 14, the Section Paloise overturned the pink soldiers who led by eight points per hour of play thanks in particular to a hat-trick from Lester Etien.
This success is a big breath of fresh air for Antoine Hastoy's teammates who are back five points ahead of the barrage Castres.
At 14 against 14 in the last minutes
The Parisians, who saw their hosts finish at 14 after the red card of the neo-international Baptiste Pesenti (56th), will surely ruminate on the end of the match, poorly controlled, during which they retreated and were often at fault, with two yellow cards collected.
Especially since this scenario had already occurred against Racing (25-27).
Instead of a happy trip like the last two seasons at Stade du Hameau, they leave with a defensive bonus.
Their delay in Béarn, with a plane grounded this morning due to storm Bella, which delayed the kick-off by three hours, did it finally have an impact?
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Pau took the lead on a penalty from Hastoy and a try from Julien Fumat well served with one hand by his opener (10-0, 18th), but the Stadium responded tit for tat with a first try of 'Etien after a nice kick over Joris Segonds who played against the Pyrenean defense (27th).
Lester Etien hat-trick
The debates were then balanced until this small side combination initiated and concluded by Etien with relays from Pumas captain Pablo Matera and Sefanaia Naivalu (56th).
On the action, Pesenti saw red for a charge with the shoulder to the winger's face.
We then hardly gave the locals a chance, taken like blues on a test born of a scrum with Etien again at the conclusion six minutes later (19-27, 62nd).
But everything turned around.
Pau showed character to come back first by the foot of Hastoy before Lespiaucq, second captain, rewarded the debauchery of energy of his family in a disheveled end of the match.
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