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European Rugby Cup: Saracens, the English challenge of Racing

2020-09-26T08:12:23.680Z


In search of a first European coronation, the Parisians find their pet peeve, this Saturday in the semi-final of the Champions Cup: the team


It has become a classic of European rugby.

A France-England shock, as the oval world loves it.

Failing to raise the crowds in a Paris-La Défense Arena in Nanterre with a gauge reduced to a thousand spectators after the announcements of the Minister of Health and which will therefore ring hollow, Racing - Saracens will propose an opposition between two of the most beautiful numbers du Vieux Continent for a place in the final on October 17 (location to be determined).

If the English are already triple winners of the event (2016, 2017 and 2019) and dominate the European scene, the Ile-de-France residents finally dream of hanging on their hunting board their bête noire that they have never beaten in a match at direct elimination.

" Black beast?

No, I don't think so, ”said scrum half Teddy Iribaren, whose strokes of genius could disrupt the beautiful, perfectly oiled mechanics of the“ Saries ”.

“I played them twice and I won once (

Editor's note: 30-10 on November 17, 2019 in Nanterre

) so I don't know, continues Iribaren.

The club lost in the final against them four years ago but I don't think the club take the Saracens for their pet peeve.

"

Last November, the Racing players had marked their territory by winning widely on their synthetic turf.

The Indian sign seemed defeated.

But manager Laurent Travers' men stumbled again on January 19 for the return leg in England.

A short defeat (27-24) against opponents who had yet learned a few days before their relegation to the second division for cheating with the salary rules.

"We are capable of winning and we will do everything to"

“It's almost the England team, underlines the international hooker Camille Chat who has already rubbed shoulders with Owen Farrell (suspended for this meeting) and Maro Itoje during the Six Nations Tournament.

I have never faced a team so strong and so tough.

“The suspensions, departures and relegation do not seem to have weakened the English workforce, according to the Racingmen.

Even the absence of the master to play the opening half Owen Farrell did not weigh in when he achieved a major performance last weekend on the lawn of Leinster (17-25), one of the big favorites of the competition. .

“The men don't matter.

The Saracens is a system well in place.

The players know how to do it and why they do it, ”explains Laurent Travers, who still remembers the cruel defeat in 2015 in the old stadium of Colombes in the dying seconds.

But Thursday when talking about Saturday's opponent and his string of internationals, the bubbling Teddy Iribaren ended up putting an end to the concert of praise.

“We will stop looking at the Saracens and their supremacy.

We are capable of winning and we will do everything to.

There are not too many questions to ask.

"It will be a life-to-death match," said Franco-South African third row Antonie Claassen.

The number

6.

In their confrontation, the two clubs have met eight times.

Racing 92 won only twice and each time in the group stage.

The English therefore lead largely in the knockout matches.

The Ciel-et-Blancs, led by Dan Carter, lost in Lyon in the European Cup final in 2016 after a first quarterback loss the previous year.

Source: leparis

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