O'Gara's La Rochelle stunned by lowly Pau in error-strewn loss

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BACK-TO-BACK LOSSES: La Rochelle's coach Ronan O'Gara. Photo: XAVIER LEOTY/AFP via Getty Images

La Rochelle fly-half Antoine Hastoy’s first start in a month against his former side ended in defeat as second-from-bottom Pau shocked Ronan O’Gara’s clumsy La Rochelle 38-21 in a high-intensity encounter at Stade Marcel Deflandre.

The visitors - en route to ending a five-match losing streak - scored two interception tries in a clumsy opening half-hour from the Champions Cup winners that prompted flanker Remi Bourdeau to admit at halftime: “We're stammering our rugby, we can't get things going. We need to put some fight and commitment back in. In the locker room, it's going to be a bit tense.” But any halftime dressing room rollicking didn’t catch, as La Rochelle slipped to their second Top 14 defeat in as many games.