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Camara, winning return
Back from injury and captain for the occasion, Yacouba Camara managed a full match.
The third-line Hérault was a key element in defense, where he scratched entry balloons (5th).
Sometimes voluntary on the offensive plan, as on this breakthrough on the left in the second half (46th), Camara especially weighed in the camp of the MHR, where he contributed to extinguish the fire by stealing two balloons from Biarrots, on a touch ( 51st) then following a forward (63rd), while the BO was still in the game ...
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The good form of the MHR
The pass of six for the gang to Philippe Saint-André.
Realistic if not brilliant, the Hérault residents turned their backs on a little more difficult passages to play off the soundtrack to sign their sixth victory in a row.
The final try of the incoming Masivesi Dakuwaqa (76th) appears as the icing on the cake or a well-deserved Boxing Day gift for the MHR, which sees its status as the third force of the Top 14 reinforced by this new victory moreover enhanced , thus making it possible to return (temporarily) to the Stade Toulousain.
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Chronic indiscipline
Boxing Day or not, this meeting between Biarrots and Montpellier did not turn into a rugby celebration. A festival of penalties in the first period (9 penalties on each side) set the tone for a match that has long been marked by the indiscipline of the two teams. And de facto by the boots of Paolo Garbisi (5/5 for the MHR) and Brett Herron (4/4 for the BO), who answered each other on both sides of the field. The second yellow synonymous with exclusion for high tackle from Montpellier Bastien Chalureau (61st) sanctioned the tension of the match but never benefited the BO, to whom the forwards were expensive in the opposing camp (see below ).
A hardly sharp BO
The two missed hits in quick succession (51st, 59th) sum up the difficulties of the BO to materialize on the offensive plan.
The Biarrots, in pink for the occasion, hardly approached the opposing goal in the first half before approaching too timidly in the second.
The numerical superiority induced by the yellow card (49th) then red (61st) of Bastien Chalureau, has never priority to the premises.
Only Domvo, caught in extremis on the right side (58th) after a first breakthrough by Stark on the left, saw the Hérault line.
A record far too thin to hope to leave the red zone ...
