Top 14: "The week has been hectic", the Stade Français already under pressure before going to challenge Bordeaux

“A non-performance”.

This is how the Stade Français player Alex Arrate qualifies the Parisians' match last week against Racing 92 (defeated to Jean-Bouin 21-36), for the first day of the Top 14. It is true that he There was better than this defeat at home in a derby against the hated rival to start a season which already promises to be ultra-tight between the ten contenders for the final stages.

And under these conditions, the Stade Français finds itself - already - under pressure before the perilous trip to the Chaban-Delmas stadium in Bordeaux, against the UBB this Saturday at 5.15 pm.

“After the derby, Saturday night was tough, Sunday too, and when we came back to training on Monday, we started a complicated week… We did a lot of video to see what went wrong.

We did not play at all the match that we would have liked to play, ”blows the three-quarter Parisian center.

“This match, we have not yet digested, admits even the forward coach Laurent Sempéré.

We're going to keep it in the back of our heads and our stomachs for a while… It's been a hectic week.

We need to quickly move on to the next game, without forgetting to erase the faults of this ignition delay.

The players are responsible, they have all taken a hit and want to react.

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Fabien Galthié visiting

In front of them will be presented on Saturday the Union Bordeaux-Bègles of Christophe Urios and Matthieu Jalibert, also cooled by an entry defeat in Biarritz and necessarily revenge for his first home match with the public in his Chaban-Delmas stadium. An enclosure that is not too successful for the Parisians, who have not won in Gironde since 2015 and remain on a scathing 44-6 last February. "It's a team with a formidable state of mind, we will have to play a full game, and show that we also have strengths, that we are able to be solid when necessary," said Laurent Sempéré . Among the other faults to be corrected, the use of the ball, which was very poor against the Ile-de-France residents. “We had more the ball than Racing but we returned it very quickly, Arrate analyzes. We'll have to keep it a little longer,move it in the 15m corridor, put our game in place to create opportunities ”.

👔🇫🇷 Visit of the coach @FGalthie and his staff this morning at the training of the Parisians at the Stade Christophe Dominici 🌸 # SFParis pic.twitter.com/Rj9upq7uzl

- Stade Français Paris (@SFParisRugby) September 9, 2021

This Thursday, the Parisians had the visit of the coach of the XV of France Fabien Galthié for their training at the Christophe Dominici stadium (former Saut-du-Loup stadium) in Boulogne. “There were two-way discussions, it was very enriching. He is very interested in what we do, explained Sempéré. It's a house he knows well, he has coached Gonzalo (Quesada), Julien (Arias), he wore this jersey. He came for his personal curiosity and perhaps also to change his way of doing things. "Last episode in the eventful week of the Stade Français before the match in Bordeaux, this visit of the coach rather slowed down the ardor of the Parisians in training ..." They did not want to pass for beans ", jokes Laurent Sempéré.