2023-07-28 05:53:51
The horizon is not as blocked as the sky of Marcoussis, which poured its liters of water in sequence on the training of the Blues Thursday afternoon, but it is a first small cloud in the sky of Fabien Galthié . He and his staff deplore the first official injured in this preparation for the World Cup in the person of François Cros. “It will take a few weeks,” said performance director Thibault Giroud about the third line, victim of muscle damage to the adductors and forfeited for the first preparation match in ten days in Scotland.
An injury made official in the morning, forcing the Toulousain to follow the high-intensity session from the sidelines of the main ground of the tricolor training center. At his side during the first part, without the ball and focused on the physical: the massive second line Paul Willemse, put aside because of his recurring frailties in the hamstrings which deprived him of the last autumn tour.
“If there is a problem, we know that it is not blank with this group. There were a lot of guys in the red today, but we managed to bring them gradually during the day on this session, says the boss of the physical preparation of the Blues. There’s only one player out so far, that’s great. Four years ago, we sometimes had between ten and fifteen outside. »
“We are on a tightrope”
It was the time when Thibault Giroud discovered with dismay a tricolor group in a state of very disparate form before flying off to Japan. Since then, the XV of France has made enormous progress and has had grueling sessions since the start of preparation in Monaco at the beginning of the month. “We are hanging on,” says an exhausted Yoram Moefana as he enters the Marcoussis press room.
“Injury is part of our sport but I have no apprehension on my side, blows the pillar of La Rochelle Reda Wardi at his side. Inevitably, we talk about it between us because we can be confronted with it. But the risk is minimized here, because we are well supervised. »
“We are on a tightrope, but we know how to react upstream, maintains Thibault Giroud. The idea is to prevent rather than suffer. Afterwards, guys will come out, that’s for sure. “An analysis that echoes the words of Fabien Galthié and his” we get hurt in our training because the intensity is higher than that of a match “.
And if we add four preparation meetings in August, the chances of deploring a final package for the World Cup at home (September 8 – October 28) are high. In the meantime, François Cros will stay with his partners to fix his body. The third line of Stade Toulouse, who had already missed almost the entire first part of the season, will stay in Marcoussis to benefit from the hypoxic chamber which simulates altitude conditions. And continue to maintain his physique with a view to the ultimate goal.
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