The meeting between Lyon and Clermont was marked by exacerbated indiscipline on the Lyon side. The second row Tomas Lavanini was notably penalized on several “screens” which annihilated two testing situations for Lou.
2 meters, 118 kilos. With his dimensions worthy of a human Hulk, Tomas Lavanini could have chosen the path of basketball in his youth. If he had preferred the orange ball or the capricious oval ball, the rough Argentine would have given proud service to some teams of the NBA, the North American basketball league, as a hard pivot on the man and strong under the basket. We don’t know if Tomas Lavanini is motivated to get up in the middle of the night to watch the performances of Rudy Gobert or LeBron James, but the powerful Puma has in any case had the unfortunate tendency to take inspiration from the golgoths of the NBA. On two occasions, the former Clermont player was guilty of “putting a screen” on two Lyon mauls, near the Auvergne goal. Across the Atlantic, this maneuver is encouraged.
Two faults leading to 14 Clermont points
But in the Top 14, Mr. Praderie, the referee of the match, had no other choice than to logically sanction the Argentinian, preventing the Jaunards from defending fairly against Lou’s penetrating groups. The problem? It is precisely that Lavanini prevented two testing situations, including a goal denied to Yanis Charcosset, at the end of the first period. Bad taste mistakes which are especially allowed for Urios’ soldiers to reinvest the Lyon camp and score… after two mauls. With a ball raised by Moala and a lightning advance over twenty meters concluded by Fourcade, the Jaunards knew how to be diabolical following these two magnificently placed screens, but, unfortunately for the Lyonnais, prohibited by the regulations of the Top 14…
