A few weeks ago, Stuart Lancaster repeated at a press conference the importance in his eyes of the hooker and scrum-half positions. This Saturday, the English manager had reason to tremble as Camille Chat, injured in the hamstrings, left during the warm-up and Nolann Le Garrec, for a concussion protocol, left the field after 30 seconds of play. Despite these uncontrollable events, Racing 92 provoked the “pride” of its coach by achieving a victory against Clermont (26-10). Enough to place the Ile-de-France club on the Top 14 podium six days before the end of the championship.
“I prefer that to suffering five defeats in a row,” smiles Stuart Lancaster, in reference to the bad patch Racing 92 experienced during the winter (from January 28 to March 2). “Our attack was failing,” recognizes prop Cedate Gomes Sa. “We had to make do with the injured. We managed to break (
get past the defense
) quite a few times but we also did a lot of stupid things. Fortunately Juan Imhoff did a very good job as a scrum half. It allows us to stay ahead. »
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