Was it a nightmare you experienced against Racing 92?
Kylan Hamdaoui:
No, a nightmare, after all ... We are disappointed, of course, because we could have done much better and the first half was catastrophic.
But we are still happy with the season we have had.
We're starting from afar, we're coming out of complicated seasons so we're still happy.
The nightmare was those first thirty minutes ...
Ah yes, it was clearly a nightmare. We take three tests in a quarter of an hour. We start the match and, after five minutes, we have a 5-meter scrum against us. We had a catastrophic start to the match. Afterwards, we woke up in the second half but, in these kinds of matches, it's too late ...
How do you explain this bad start?
I don't know, I have the impression that it is the butterfly effect.
It snowballed ... We start, we do a little kick over, we find ourselves in our 5 meters.
Afterwards, they score direct.
On kickoff, we take a penalty, they come back again.
We chained the faults and we gave them a lot of ammunition.
And they scored every time.
They put our heads under water and afterwards, against a team like that, it's difficult to come back.
"I don't think we have much to envy the three-quarter line of Racing ..."
Kylan Hamdaoui
When your opener Joris Segonds plays that first kick over defense, is that an area you had spotted?
For me, he does not get rid of the ball, it's me who calls him. Racing was climbing very hard, they have a very good defense, they are very aggressive. So, we wanted to play on top of it. But when he (
Segonds
) does it, he stumbles. Me too I get tangled up with a Racing player, I also fall. It makes Kurtley Beale make a good raise and put us under pressure. Afterwards, it is a problem of realization and a lack of pot which makes that it ends up in crate. We did not play well with the foot.
What makes Racing's three-quarter line so special?
They have a bit of everything. They have individualities, they play well together, they are physical. They are very good. After other teams in our championship have very nice three-quarter lines. I don't think we have much to envy them. Even if it is true that, in this match, they were superior to us. They play fair and in the advance, it is easier. But in the second half, we countered them well.