La Rochelle, semi-finalist of the Champions Cup against Exeter in ten days in Bordeaux, will have to do without internationals Pierre Bourgarit and Jonathan Danty, injured, Saturday against Clermont, the maritime club announced on Thursday.
Hooker Pierre Bourgarit continues to treat pubalgia. “For him, we see day after day. He has not yet resumed the race, but we hope to find him for the semi-finals against Exeter, ”said rear line coach Sébastien Boboul.
The absence is likely to be longer for the center Jonathan Danty, touched in the ribs against Bayonne, his club even evoking 4 to 6 weeks of stoppage. “It’s going to take a miracle to see him for the semi-finals,” Boboul said. But with him you can expect anything. That’s what he told me this afternoon, that he was recovering quickly. An allusion to his express return to the field with the XV of France during the last Tournament after his rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament at the end of December.
Another absence reported, that of the 3rd line Matthias Haddad who suffers from a sprained ankle rendering him unavailable for the next four weeks. Facing ASM, the club with the caravel (2nd in the Top 14) will recover its number 8 Grégory Alldritt who was on vacation last week and the 2nd Australian line Will Skelton, recovered from his concussion suffered against Saracens.
