Bordeaux-Bègles festival which starts strong by imposing itself in Connacht

2023-12-09 01:04:09

By Louis Mouret

Published yesterday at 10:51 p.m., Updated now

Damian Penaud, unstoppable, scored the second of four Bordeaux tries. PAUL FAITH / AFP

The Girondins won with the offensive bonus in Galway (5-41), scoring six tries to launch their Champions Cup campaign.

An offensive demonstration. Union Bordeaux-Bègles got off to a perfect start to its Champions Cup campaign, winning this Friday on the Connacht pitch in Galway (5-41). After its success in Oyonnax last weekend (23-29), UBB seemed to have finally launched its season. With this new success on Irish soil, it is a confirmation that Yannick Bru’s players sought. And with manner.

Yet manhandled in the first moments of the match with possession largely in favor of the Irish, the Bordelo-Béglais were able to keep their backs. Very close to conceding a first try on a maul (5th), the UBB will ultimately prove more effective in taking control of the match very quickly. On a good combination between Ben Tapuai and Tevita Tatafu, the UBB progressed and it was Buros who arrived launched inside to go flattened between the posts (9th).

But as usual this season, Bordeaux-Bègles was again very undisciplined this Friday and gave Connacht plenty of opportunities to get back into the game. And despite a cruel lack of efficiency, the Irish will respond to Bordeaux with a try on a maul poorly controlled by the Bordeaux forwards (16th). These will be Connacht’s last points of the match.

A demonstration in the second half

Without a solution in the face of the good defense of the UBB and imprecise around the opposing goal, the Irish will have let Yannick Bru’s players gain confidence and develop their game. After the try of the inevitable serial scorer Damian Penaud (24th), it was especially in the second half that the Bordelais had fun. By inflicting a scathing 29-0 on the locals they disgusted and silenced the 9,000 spectators at the Connacht Sportsground. More disciplined, better in scrum and inspired in attack, UBB taught Connacht a lesson with two great achievements from Pablo Uberti (42nd) and Buros for his double (54th). Led by Mathieu Jalibert in great form, the UBB back line shone again this Friday evening and confirmed all its potential.

And if the backs were able to have fun, it is also thanks to a lot of work from the Bordeaux forwards, rewarded with a penalty try on a devastating scrum (67th). At the very end of the match, Pablo Uberti will also score a double to close this festival after a long sequence of repeated passes between forwards and backs. Yannick Bru can be proud of his men who return to Gironde with 5 points and a second consecutive away victory. The UBB European campaign is off to a great start.