After almost a month without playing, the Stade Français returns to competition this Saturday at 5:45 p.m. at the Jean-Bouin stadium, for the 22nd day of the Top 14. The Parisians (8th, 45 points) welcome Pau (13th, 36 points), in fight for its maintenance, in a match with stake promising to be tough.
“The Pau prepared for this match in a special way.
It's a team that needs to win, which had a very, very good match against Bayonne, ”warns Gonzalo Quesada, the Parisian coach.
1 / Defeat prohibited to still believe in qualifying.
For Stade Français, beaten at home on March 27 by Clermont (27-34) and won 7 points from the Top 6, victory is imperative so as not to be irreparably out of the race for the finals.
"I'm going to give an answer that journalists don't like, but this time it's true: we will take match after match," explains Gonzalo Quesada.
We still have six games, these are only finals.
If we lose, we go out of the championship.
It's that simple ".
His third line Antoine Burban approves: “If we win, we have hope for the next match.
If we lose, we're not going to lie to each other, it's over.
We're going to go into Cup mode.
We don't have to calculate the number of points, we just have to win everything.
The motivation is not complicated to seek ”.
2 / Return to competition after a month without playing.
Since the defeat against Clermont, the Stade Français has not tasted the field. Deprived of the European Cup, then the derby against Racing 92 (postponed to May 1 due to Covid), will the Parisians be ready? Antoine Burban kicks in touch: "We may have a little more freshness, but we may lack rhythm ... It is the field that will say it, we will know after the match". "Astonished" by the postponement of the match against Racing ("they were all negative"), Gonzalo Quesada regrets this forced rest: "it would have done us good to resume. We tried to reproduce the match, putting a lot of intensity in training. We will be ready ”. The Argentine coach is confident despite injuries in the second row (Maestri and Kremer, as well as Gabrillagues suspended).
3 / Life without Fickou.
His hasty departure to the neighbors of Racing agitated the Ovalie last week.
But for Gonzalo Quesada, “we have to stop talking about all this”.
"Everything is going well in the locker room," he says.
The group is still there.
There is a lot of envy, a notion of revenge for what we read, where we are lacking a little respect.
We use that.
Those who say that we give players as if our season is over, we will show them the opposite.
"" The departure of Gaël, that does not destabilize us, assures Antoine Burban.
It bothers us a bit, that's all.
We won with him, we also won without.
Stade Français is not just about one player, we have a quality squad ”.
STADE FRANÇAIS - PAU
, this Saturday at 5:45 p.m. at the Jean-Bouin stadium (in camera).
Referee
: M. Ruiz.
THE TEAMS
Stade Français:
Hamdaoui - Veainu, Danty, Nayacalevu, Naivalu - (o) Segonds, (m) Hall - Burban, Macalou, Matera - De Giovanni, Azagoh - Kakovin, Latu, P. Alo-Emile (cap.).
Alternates
: Da Silva, M. Alo-Emile, Grobler, Godener, Percillier, Barre, Arrate, Tagi.
Pau:
Malié - Tuimba, Manu, Roudil, Septar - (o) Debaes, (m) Le Bail - Tagitagivalu, Habel-Kuffner, Ugena - Pesenti, Philip - Fisi'Ihoi, Lespiaucq, Corato.
Substitutes
: Rey, Calles, Metz, Ramsay, Daubagna, Marques, Pinto, Van Dyk.