Ospreys captain Justin Tipuric labelled his side’s win over Montpellier in the Champions Cup in France as “special”.

Tipuric’s team claimed a surprise 21-10 victory against the French champions, putting Ospreys back in the race for the knockout stages.

Much needed win

The triumph is the Welsh outfit’s first after a string of 11 successive defeats and a draw in the toughest club competition in the world.

The flank admitted it was good for his side to break their poor run of form in the competition and is eyeing consistency going forward.

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“That result has to be up there among our best in Europe given we went into the game having not won for such a long time,” said Tipuric.

“To win is great, but the biggest thing for us now is to carry on winning. We need to become more consistent.

“That’s the standard we want to be playing at week in, week out. We know we can go up another few gears and we want to push on to be better.

“It’s special to put one over on the French champions. You could see they were hurting at the end and they will come to us in the new year really fired up.”

Took lessons from Leicester defeat

Head coach Toby Booth echoed his captain’s sentiments about the victory and said the win shows his team can learn quickly as they did from their loss to Leicester Tigers the week before.

“Everyone was bitterly disappointed after last week’s performance. We took it personally and we talked a lot about it,” said Booth.

“We got the chance to go again and the sign of a good team is that you learn quickly. We learned a lot of lessons out of the Leicester defeat and we proved that tonight.

“But the best part of it was that after the elation on the final whistle, the players were genuinely disappointed that they hadn’t taken more out of the game. It’s nice to have some positivity and to have turned a corner.”

Ospreys shift their focus back to the United Rugby Championship, where they face Welsh rivals, the Scarlets. Booth’s men will be looking to start to climb the table as they currently sit way down in the 14th spot.

As reported by L’Équipe, Paris Saint-Germain are aiming to revamp their youth academy as a part of wider hierarchal changes being brought in by new sporting advisor Luis Campos and sporting director Antero Henrique. Ultra-modern training facilities are being constructed at the PSG’s future training facility at Poissy – where youth team facilities in particular will be key to organisational change at the club. 

There are the beginnings of a change of attitude towards its youth academy at PSG, and it is starting right at the very top with Nasser al-Khelaïfi’s changing rhetoric, and on the ground with new youth facilities. 

The Qatari told Le Parisien : “Eleven years ago I said I wanted to train the future Messi, today I say we want to train the future Mbappé, who would also come from Paris,” explained Nasser al-Khelaïfi ten days ago to Le Parisien. We will have the best training centre in the world. My goal for the next few years is to have only Parisian players in our team. There is so much talent in our region.”

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The hope in the capital is to keep players within the ‘hotbed of talent’ that was heavily mediatised after France’s 2018 World Cup win – which saw predominantly Parisian-developed players feature in the team. In the future, the club hopes to keep the likes of Rabiot, Nkunku, Diaby, Ikoné, and Areola within the first team. 

Announced this morning by Paris FC’s social channels, Pierre-Yves Hamel (28) will join the Parisian side after a season out on loan at Clermont – the centre forward will drop down into Ligue 2 next season.  Signing a contract that will run until 2026, the move is estimated to be valued at €1m. 

Hamel featured 20 times last season on loan to Clermont in Ligue 1, but failed to score a single goal. The former Rennes and Avranches striker leaves the Lorient with one year left on his contract, and will be under contract at PFC for the next 4 seasons. 

Paris FC are hoping to build a side to challenge for promotion again to Ligue 1 after failing last year in the play-offs against Sochaux with a 2-1 defeat. The Parisian side have already strengthened, signing former Red Star FC attacking midfielder Mehdi Chahiri on loan from RC Strasbourg – which fits PFC’s profile of players that can quickly move the ball to feet and drive into space. 

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