Tops
A Classic
that shines brightly
This Classic of French rugby has not failed to keep all its promises.
With 10 registered tries, seven Toulouse side and three Parisian side, this meeting is quite simply the most prolific since the start of the season.
With its own speed game, Stade Toulousain flew over the debates and this improved success allows it to temporarily reach the top of the Top 14 (47 points), while waiting for the late matches of La Rochelle and Racing 92. Author of a double (46th, 51st), the young Toulouse winger Mathis Lebel is now alone at the top of the test scorers classification.
Swept away at Jean-Bouin last November, in terms of their last setback, Ugo Mola's men have a seventh consecutive game without defeat in the league (6 wins, one draw) and widen the gap on their pursuers, in the race to the final stages.
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Stade Toulousain annihilates all suspense in 7 minutes
Jostled at the start of the match by an attractive team from Stade Français, which leads 3 to 0 in a quarter of an hour of play, the Toulousains pressed on the accelerator to fly to the table of 'display and no longer be worried by their opponents.
Antoine Miquel scored the first try by concluding a surplus off (17th) before Antoine Dupont (20th), well helped by an interception of Sofiane Guitoune then Yohann Huget (24th), at the conclusion of a collective movement, reduced Parisian hopes to nothing in 10 minutes.
With a significant advantage at the break (22-3), the Toulousains are responsible for keeping their offensive bonus in the second act, with four new tries registered.
Guitoune, omnipresent in the game of the Rouge et Noir
The Toulouse center Sofiane Guitoune was undoubtedly the most prominent Toulouse three-quarter at this Classic.
Reading the Parisian game well, he intercepts a poorly adjusted pass from Joris Segonds before accelerating over 40 meters and serving his scrum half Antoine Dupont (20th) on a plateau, for the Rouge et Noir's second try.
Very active on the test of Yohann Huget also where he pierced the first curtain of the Stade Français on his own, Sofiane Guitoune repeats again on the fourth where he transmits an offering to Mathis Lebel, after failing for the umpteenth time the defense of the pink soldiers (46th).
Flops
The bad evening of the Parisian hinge
If the Stade Français was severely defeated at Ernest-Wallon, the poor performance of its hinge, made up of James Hall and Joris Segonds, is no stranger.
Approximate in his kicking game with several penalties not found, the Parisian opener is also at the origin of two opposing trials.
On an ill-fitting pass intercepted by Sofiane Guitoune, he brought Dupont's try (20th before a poorly measured clearance created an imbalance in his defense and allowed Lebel to conclude in the corner (46th). James Hall was illustrated by a direct touch from his 22 meters and difficulty in raising the pace of his partners. The entry of the usual starter Arthur Coville in the second act has also done good to his partners.
Matera, a useless and avoidable gesture
The Argentine third row was illustrated in a very poor way this Sunday evening.
While the gap was already substantial, he voluntarily prevented Zach Holmes from registering the Toulouse's sixth try by pushing him with a shoulder in front of the in-goal (59th).
Result, he logically received a yellow card and Mr. Trainini granted a penalty try to the premises.
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