With Delguy and Kremer, the unexpected situation that Clermont experienced on his trip to Vannes

With Delguy and Kremer, the unexpected situation that Clermont experienced on his trip to Vannes

This Sunday, Clermont beat 20-19 Vannes in a more than important match to try to stay in the platoon of those fighting to enter the playoffs of the Top 14. The party, in Disney+.

The Montferrand team came from two consecutive defeats (La Rochelle and Montpellier) and sought to return to victory against a rival who is at the bottom of the table.

However, the journey did not begin as expected. Clermontwith Marcos Kremer and Bautista Delguy confirmed as starters, undertook the trip to Brittany on Saturday by plane, but could not land due to bad weather conditions in the prefecture of Morbihan.

Between 3 and 9 p.m., the French Meteorological Service issued a yellow alert for rain and flooding, as well as violent winds. After circling in the air for almost half an hour, the pilot was forced to divert the plane to Caen. Once there, those led by Christophe Urios had to travel almost 300 km by bus to reach their destination.

Fortunately for the visitors, the journey ended with a smile as a result of two tries by Regis Montagne that served to close the day with promotion to fourth place.