2023-12-28 19:41:25
He’s back, a little earlier than expected. Emergency call as a firefighter who would be the only one capable of extinguishing the emerging fire. Grégory Alldritt, the 3rd international center line from La Rochelle will be part of the group responsible for challenging the French champions Toulouse this Saturday evening (9:5 p.m.) at the Marcel-Deflandre stadium. He should sit on the substitutes’ bench and come into play.
Resting since the elimination in the quarter-final of the World Cup on October 15 at the Stade de France against South Africa (28-29), the La Rochelle captain, who was initially due to resume in January, hastened his resumption given the difficult sporting situation of his club.
Ninth in the Top 14, beaten in these first two European Cup matches of which it is the double title holder, Ronan O’Gara’s team is unable to launch its season. The setback (18-13) against Stade Français last Saturday once again revealed the shortcomings of a team that sorely lacks impact.
He came out of the World Cup exhausted
In this sector, Grégory Alldritt (26 years old, 45 caps) poses as a strong reinforcement. The question now is whether he will have regained his full strength even though he left the World Cup exhausted, both physically and mentally.
“It was important for me to cut,” said the player, present in Paris in mid-November during the presentation of the National League’s strategic plan. I didn’t want to wait to take this break. I had problems with my shoulder, my knee, my hamstrings… It was important to get rid of all that. »
Alldritt was not really worried about his club’s poor start. “The season is still long, a lot of things will happen,” he said. But the delay accumulated by La Rochelle, now 7 lengths from 6th qualifying place for the final phase, is starting to seriously complicate things for the Maritimes after ten days of Top 14.
And even if Stade Toulouse, far from being flamboyant too but better placed (7th to 1 point from 6th place), has planned to rotate its squad by letting its internationals breathe, Ronan O’Gara wants at all costs to avoid a defeat at home against its great rival, its bête noire, which could slowly push the La Rochelle club into a crisis that it did not see coming.
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