Rugby, Challenge Cup: “The last 10-12 weeks have been like finals each time”, underlines Etzebeth (Toulon)

RC Toulon, which has lost only one of its last ten matches in all competitions, “is not going to change anything”, assured RCT manager Franck Azéma on Thursday, on the eve of the European Challenge final against Lyons. “We don’t ask questions. We will stick to what we know how to do. We have recklessness but also convictions, commitment… We keep the same passion and the same casualness because we have confidence in what we produce. Same story on the side of the South African world champion Eben Etzebeth. “The last ten-twelve weeks have been like finals every time. Every weekend, if we didn’t win, we knew we could give up on the top six of the Top 14. So we’re not going to change anything, added the second row. We will focus on the basics to do them well: the scrum, the alignments, the mauls and the kicking game. Stuck in the second half of the table until the end of March, the RCT now seems almost untouchable, swept away by a wave which carried it to the Challenge Cup final and still in the race for the final phase of the Top 14.