“It’s not bad all the same, even though the two teams are not at their best, and it’s a Sunday evening, not the best time for a match in Paris,” thinks Franck Lemann, president of Virage des Dieux. There will be a good atmosphere. » Thomas Lombard, the general director of the Parisian club, also regrets this less than ideal programming, which comes after a series of three matches of the XV of France at the Stade de France, which satisfied Ile-de-France rugby fans. “But three or four years ago, a match with 15,000 people on a Sunday evening, we dreamed of it,” he recalls.
