Édition du Nord

Select Edition

Nord Nord
Sud Sud
Mondial Mondial
Nouvelle Zélande Nouvelle Zélande
France France

Pro D2 : Montauban dompte Agen et s'empare de la tête

Photo : @UsmSapiacRugby

Les Montalbanais ont frappé fort en s’imposant à Armandie pour la troisième fois consécutive (18-25), s’emparant seuls de la tête du championnat.

ADVERTISEMENT

Emmenés par un Jackson étincelant, auteur d’un doublé (37e, 66e), Sapiac a dominé le SU Agen en maîtrisant parfaitement le jeu au pied et en exploitant les erreurs adverses.

Avec ce succès, Montauban (31 points) reprend les commandes du Pro D2 tandis qu’Agen, en difficulté, s’enlise au milieu du tableau avec une deuxième défaite à domicile cette saison.

Rencontre
Pro D2
Agen
18 - 25
Temps complet
US Montauban
Toutes les stats et les données

Malgré une réaction tardive après des changements à la pause, les Agenais n’ont pas pu renverser la vapeur face à une défense montalbanaise intraitable.

Menés 3-18 à la mi-temps, les locaux ont tenté de revenir grâce à un essai d’Etcheverry (46e) et une pénalité de Pourteau (57e), mais le deuxième essai opportuniste de Jackson a scellé le sort du match, malgré l’essai de Matthieu Bonnet en fin de rencontre.

Défaite d’Agen face à Montauban : les réactions

« On n’a pas su mettre la bonne intensité au début, on a été surpris, on n’a pas mis le bon dosage », a concédé le coach d’Agen Sébastien Calvet, en fin de rencontre. « On était complètement à l’envers sur toute la première période. On devait tenter un coup, deux coups, trois coups et si ça ne marchait pas, on devait jouer dans le dos.

« On a eu une belle réaction en seconde période, mais il y avait 40 minutes avant. On parlait d’objectifs hauts, maintenant, on s’est dit dans le vestiaire qu’on va parler d’objectifs médians. On n’est pas en crise, mais on ne parle plus de qualification, juste d’accrocher le plus de matchs. »

A l’inverse, le manager de l’US Montauban, Sébastien Tillous-Borde, se présentait satisfait de ses joueurs. « J’ai vu un bon match, on a fait des choses basiques, mais plutôt bien », a-t-il confié.

ADVERTISEMENT

« On s’est mis en danger les 10 premières minutes, mais je suis content pour les gars, surtout après deux sorties plutôt moyennes. On marque de beaux essais, les mecs ont fait le boulot collectivement et individuellement. On a fait beaucoup tourner, on a été mis à mal, mais on a réussi à trouver des repères. On a été très performant dans l’occupation, surtout en première période. »

Agen 18 – 25 Montauban : les stats de la rencontre

Graphique d'évolution des points

US Montauban gagne +7
Temps passé en tête
0
Minutes passées en tête
77
0%
% du match passés en tête
96%
85%
Possession sur les 10 dernières minutes
15%
7
Points sur les 10 dernières minutes
0

Synthèse du match

2
Coups de pied de pénalité
1
2
Essais
3
1
Transformations
2
0
Drops
1
112
Courses avec ballon
68
3
Franchissements
6
16
Turnovers perdus
12
6
Turnovers gagnés
4

Occupation

15%
33%
11%
41%
Team Logo
Team Logo
52%
Occupation
48%

Possession

Team Logo
12%
36%
40%
11%
Team Logo
11%
43%
32%
15%
Team Logo
Team Logo
85%
Possession sur les 10 dernières minutes
15%
61%
Possession
39%

Phases statiques

4
Mêlées
9
100%
% de mêlées gagnées
67%
20
Touche
9
95%
% de touches gagnées
67%
6
Renvois réussis
7
100%
% de renvois réussis
100%

Pénalités

5
Pénalités concédées
10
0
Cartons jaunes
0
0
Cartons rouges
0

Résultats des matches de la 11e journée de Pro D2 :

Jeudi 14 novembre

  • Agen – Montauban 18 – 25

Vendredi 15 novembre

  • (19h00) Colomiers – Béziers
  • (19h30) Grenoble – Soyaux-Angoulême
  • Aurillac – Nevers
  • Nice – Brive
  • Valence-Romans – Oyonnax
  • (21h00) Biarritz – Provence Rugby

Samedi 16 novembre

  • (16h30) Dax – Mont-de-Marsan

Pro D2

P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
US Montauban
11
8
3
0
35
2
Grenoble
10
7
3
0
31
3
Provence Rugby
10
6
3
1
31
4
Brive
10
6
4
0
29
5
Biarritz
10
6
4
0
27
6
Beziers
10
5
5
0
27
7
Soyaux Angouleme
10
5
3
2
26
8
Colomiers
10
5
4
1
24
9
Agen
11
4
7
0
21
10
Mont de Marsan
10
4
6
0
21
11
Dax
10
5
5
0
21
12
USON Nevers
10
4
6
0
19
13
Oyonnax
10
4
6
0
18
14
Aurillac
10
4
6
0
17
15
Nice
10
3
7
0
16
16
Valence Romans
10
3
7
0
15

Related

ADVERTISEMENT

LIVE

{{item.title}}

Trending on RugbyPass

Commentaires

0 Comments
Soyez le premier à commenter...

Inscrivez-vous gratuitement et dites-nous ce que vous en pensez vraiment !

Inscription gratuite
ADVERTISEMENT

Latest Features

Comments on RugbyPass

J
JW 11 minutes ago
'Razor's conservatism is in danger of halting New Zealand's progress'

Razor is compensating, and not just for the Foster era.


Thanks again for doing the ground work on some revealing data Nick.


This article misses some key points points that are essential to this debate though;


Razor is under far more pressure than Rassie to win

Rassie is a bolder selector than Razor, and far more likely to embrace risk under pressure than his counterpart from New Zealand.

It doesn't realise the difficulties of a country like South Africa, with no rugby season to speak of at the moment, to get full use out of overseas internationals

Neither world player of the year Pieter-Steph du Toit nor all-world second row Eben Etzebeth were automatic selections despite the undue influence they exert on games in which they play.

The last is that one coach is 7 years into his era, where the other is in his first, and is starting with a far worse blank slate than where upon South Africa's canvas could be layered onto after 2017.

The spread at the bottom end is nothing short of spectacular. Seventeen more South Africans than New Zealanders started between one and five games in 2024.

That said, I think the balance needs to be at least somewhere in the middle. I don't know how much that is going to be down to Razor's courage, and New Zealands appetite however.


Sadly I think it is going to continue and the problem is going to be masked by much better results next year, even forgotten with an undefeated season. Because even this article appears to misconstruing the..

known quantities

as being TJP and Sam Cane. In the context of what would need to change for the numbers above to be similar, it's players like Jordie Barrett, Beauden Barrett, Rieko Ioane, Sevu Reece, Ethan Blackadder, Codie Taylor, where the reality needs to be meet face on.


On Jordie Barrett at Lienster, I really hope he can be taught how to tackle with a hard shoulder like Henshaw and Ringrose have. You can see in these highlights he doesn't have the physical presence of those two, or even the ones behind him in NZ like ALB and AJ Lam. I can't really seem him making leaps in other facets if he's already making headlines now.

5 Go to comments
J
JW 1 hour ago
The All Blacks don't need overseas-based players

I'm not sure you realise how extreme it is, previously over half of SR players ended up overseas. These days just over half finish their career at home (some of those might carry on in lower leagues around the world).


1. Look at a player like Mo'unga who took time to become comfortable at his max level, thrust a player like that in well above his level, something Farrell is possibly doing now with Pendergrast, and you fail to maximise your player base as a whole. I don't think you realise the balance in NZ, without controlling who can leave there is indeed right now an immediate risk from any further pressure on the balance. We are not as flush as a country like South Africa I can't imagine (look at senior mens numbers).


2. Your idea excludes foreign fans, not the current status, their global 1.8mil base (find a recent article about it) will dwindle. Our clubs don't compete against each other, it's a central model were all players have a flat max 200k contribution. NZR decides who is worth keeping for the ABs in a very delicate balance of who to let go and who not. Might explain why our Wellington game wasn't a sellout.


3. Players aren't going to play for their country for nothing while other players are getting a million dollars. How much does SARU pay or reimburse their players?


4. I don't believe that at all. Everything so far has pointed to becoming an AB as the 'profile' winner. Comms love telling their fans some 'lucky' 1 cap guy is an "All Black" and the audience goes woooh!

The reality is much more likely to be more underwhelming

But the repercussions are end game, so why is it worth the risk?

Hardly be poaching uni or school boys.

This comment is so out of touch with rugby in NZ.

European comps aren't exactly known for poaching unproven talent ie SR or up not down to NPC.

So, so out of touch. Never heard of Jamison Gibson-Park, or Bundee Aki, or Chandler Cunningham-South, what about Uino Atonio? Numerous kiwi kids, like Warner Dearns, are playing in Japan having left after some stardom in school rugby here. Over a third of the NRL (so basically a third of the URC) are Kiwis who likely been scouted playing rugby at school. France have recently started in that path with Patrick Tuifua, and you hear loosely about good kids taking up offers to go overseas for basic things like school/uni (avg age 20+), similar to what attracts island kids to NZ.


But that's getting off track, it's too far in the future for you to conceptualize in this discussion. Where here because you think you know what it's like to need to select overseas based players, because of similarities like NZ and SA both having systems that funnel players into as few teams as possible in order to make them close to international quality, while also having a semi pro domestic league that produces an abundance of that talent, all the while facing similar financial predicaments. I'm not using extremes like some do, to scare monger away from making any changes. I am highlighting where the advantages don't cross over to the NZ game like the do for South Africa.


So while you are right in a lot of respects, some things that the can be taken for granted, is that if not more players leave, higher calibre players definitely will, and that is going to weaken the domestic competitions global reach, which will make it much hard to keep up or overtake the rest of the world. To put it simply, the domestic game is the future. International rugby is maxed out already, and the game here somehow needs to double it's revenue.


This is what you need to align your pitch with. Not being able to select players from overseas, because there are only ever one or two of those players. Sometimes even no one who'd be playing overseas and good enough for the ABs. You might be envisioning the effects of extremes, because it's hard to know just how things change slightly, but you know it's not going to be good.

94 Go to comments
TRENDING
TRENDING ‘She’s a bit of a freak’: 20-year-old leads New Zealand to Cape Town title ‘She’s a bit of a freak’: 20-year-old leads New Zealand to CPT title
Search