Answer next Sunday, February 14th. Manu Boutet and Will Johnson will be able to rely on the anticipated returns of Ross Beattie, Grant Hill, Alexandre Mezencev, Damien Delmonte, Billy Ngawini, Rudi Keil, Adrien Malavard, and Lomé Fa’atau. These players did not travel to Monteux, highlighting the performance of the team from Nice in Vaucluse.
Despite conceding twice against a Monteux team that played a very solid match up front but committed too many fouls, the Azuréens managed to demonstrate control and efficiency through the boot of Mark MacHugh, who scored four penalty goals before scrum-half Greg Chambon sealed the victory with a drop goal at the very end. Although not a dominated match, it was a controlled one.
In Monteux,
Monteux-Nice: 10-15 (5-9)
For Nice: 4 penalty goals (1st, 18th, 35th, 54th) MacHugh and 1 drop goal (78th) Chambon.
For Monteux: 2 tries, (10th) Lombartex, (51st) Dahbi.
Yellow cards: El Habnouni (10th) and Merquey (79th) for Monteux
The Nice team: MacHugh – Roman, Kacharava, Mège (Benstaali, 60th), Dramé – (o) Lapierre (Caminati, 49th), (m) Chambon – Moxham (Orméa, 65th), Sainte-Croix (captain), J.Malavard (Ducourtieux, 60th) – Derrstroff (Herrera, 51st), Boukanoucha – Traversa (Langlade, 45th), Feldis (MacKie, 51st), Guarese (Canizares, 51st).
