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Hongkong 7s : Matéo Garcia offre sa première victoire à France 7

Kai Tak Stadium Hong Kong

Sous le toit ouvert du Kai Tak Stadium à Hongkong, France 7 a finalement remporté sa première victoire du week-end contre le Kenya, 14-7, lors de son dernier match de la poule C. Mais la joie a été de courte durée. Sur le match suivant, l’Espagne passait quatre essais à la Grande-Bretagne (26-12) pour terminer en tête de la poule et reléguer la France à la troisième place.

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Avec deux défaites en trois matchs, il fallait un miracle pour que Paulin Riva et sa bande soient repêchés et terminent meilleurs troisièmes.

En première période, les Bleus ont résisté aux Kenyans alors qu’ils jouaient en infériorité numérique suite au carton jaune attribué à Antoine Zeghdar, auteur d’un plaquage haut à l’encontre de Denis Abukuse. Juste avant la pause, Simon Désert raffutait et déposait un ballon joliment transmis grâce à un offload de Yérim Fall (7-0).

Au retour, les représentants d’Afrique avaient d’autres intentions lorsque Patrick Odongo trouvait un espace entre Joé Quere-Karaba et Simon Désert pour filer à l’essai sans être inquiété (7-7, 10e).

Mais alors que le Kenya pouvait réaliser l’exploit de battre les médaillés d’or olympique, les Français ont construit un mur autour de leur en-but jusqu’à regagner la possession à trente secondes de la fin. C’est alors que Nelson Épée, l’ailier de Toulouse, tapait un long coup de pied à suivre finalement repris par Matéo Garcia, qui inscrivait son premier essai, offrant la victoire à France 7, alors que le gong retentissait.

Une 7e victoire de rang contre le Kenya

Large vainqueur de l’Espagne (0-19) lors de la première journée, le Kenya s’était ensuite incliné face à la Grande-Bretagne (12-7). De son côté, la France avait encaissé deux douloureuses défaites (12-7 contre la Grande-Bretagne et 19-12 contre l’Espagne).

Cette rencontre face au Kenya avait donc pour enjeu, pour l’une comme pour l’autre équipe, de grappiller le maximum de points pour espérer finir dans le Top 2 de la poule C ou comme meilleure troisième pour espérer décrocher un ticket pour les quarts de finale.

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La France surfe sur une belle série face au Kenya : désormais sept victoires de rang depuis 2022, avec un point de départ à Toulouse. Leur précédent affrontement à Vancouver a viré à la démonstration, avec un écart de 26 points — le plus large entre les deux équipes depuis Londres en 2022.

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Late Makazole Mapimpi try earns the Sharks win away to Edinburgh

Jake White described this as the strongest Sharks lineup ever. There is no doubt that it is at least an impressive roster. They did win, which is obviously an achievement against a good Edinburgh side. However …


For much of the first half Edinburgh seemed easily able to create 2 on 1 opportunities on both wings, with the defensive wingers biting in on the inside runner and cover defence being AWOL. Conversely the Sharks showed little ability to get behind the Edinburgh defensive line, with the sole exception of a nicely-exploited Am mismatch against a second row (which led to the Fassi try).


In general the Sharks, with their full complement of Bok firepower, do not look that dangerous in attack, and while tackling was good on the whole and goal line defence was impressive at times, they were exhibiting surprising breakdowns in open play defensive structures.


Also, the Sharks continue to be inaccurate, with material impact on the scoreboard. Missing two very kickable penalties is not the way to be the best. It looked to me like the Sharks contestable kicks were not well enough executed, and were too hard to recover.


Not sure what the running attack was trying to do, but my guess is that they were trying to pull off a Harlequins-style bash-and-offload game off of 12 (Esterhuizen). That’s not a terrible idea with the personnel available, but it would require creativity and a precision on second phase that was not in evidence.


Lastly, you have to have better discipline. It’s great that the team can cope with a 13 vs 14 period (of almost 10 minutes), but smart teams a avoid cards.


Having said that it was great to see the win. I thought that Edinburgh were cynical and niggly. Always hanging around on the wrong side of the breakdown, lots of intentional obstruction, illegal dummying at the base of the ruck, etc. They played a dirty game and the ref tolerated it. Always good to see that not succeed.


Overall the “best Sharks lineup ever” scraped the win, but under-performed their Bok-laden potential. Again.

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