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Top 14, play-off: Bordeaux tops Lyon and qualifies for the semi-finals

2023-06-04T21:30:47.080Z

Highlights: Bordeaux beat Lyon on their ground (32-25) after a thrilling match. Bordeaux will face La Rochelle next Saturday (17 hours) in the semi-finals. The LOU Maraku centre's try reset the clock (25-25, 74th) just before Tambwe, again flattened at the end of a forty-metre run. After a few ping-pong exchanges, ball in hand, and despite their numerical inferiority to 13 against 14 according to the yellow cards, the Bordealis found the flaw on the solitary raid of the Congolese winger Madosh Tamb We.


The Bordeaux, winners of Lyon on their ground (32-25) after a thrilling match, won the right to face the champions


Two minutes from the end, on a new try by the Congolese winger Madosh Tambwe at the end of a dishevelled race, Bordeaux crunched the LOU (32-25) and qualified for the semi-finals in San Sebastian in Spain where the Gironde club will face La Rochelle next Saturday (17 hours). In their den of Gerland, the Lyonnais were a bit too brittle this Sunday evening in a supercharged atmosphere.

After the thunderstorms of the previous day, there was not much electricity left in the air. She was on the pitch, in the legs and intentions of players who, on both sides, saw the prospect of a semi-final as revenge for a rollercoaster season. The meeting started at a frantic pace. The Bordealis took the lead on an initiative of Matthieu Jalibert. The opener infiltrated a mouse hole, seemed a little short to flatten, even losing control of the ball but the referee, who could not benefit this Sunday evening from the video because of technical problems (goal judges were mobilized for the occasion), chose to award the try (6th).

The response was not long in coming. Baptiste Couilloud, the scrum-half of LOU who has sounded all the revolts for a month to win a qualification in the final phase despite serious dissensions between the squad and its manager Xavier Garbajosa, has emerged at the level of a grouping. His acceleration froze the Bordeaux defense. His pass to the rope for his winger Ethan Dumortier was decisive (9th).

Dominated in conquest, especially in closed scrum, the Bordeaux also suffered devastating counters. Josua Tuisova, the center who will play next season at Racing, qualified the day before for the semifinals thanks to his success against Stade Français (33-20), showed that he had ants in his legs. Author of a breakthrough of fifty meters found his winger Verdamu of a pass of fifteen meters in full speed. At the end of the action, it was again he who pierced the last curtain of Bordeaux (30th). At half-time, Lyon led by 9 points (17-8). Nothing definitive especially since on the return of the locker room, the two teams restarted at a hundred per hour in an unbridled and breathless game. Bordeaux scrum-half Maxime Lucu, Antoine Dupont's understudy in the XV of France, came out of his box in turn. His breakthrough led, at the end of the action, to the try of the 3rd line Diaby (47th).

After a few ping-pong exchanges, ball in hand, and despite their numerical inferiority to 13 against 14 according to the yellow cards, the Bordeaux found the flaw on the solitary raid of the Congolese winger Madosh Tambwe, slaloming in a Lyon defense stunned (67th).

BUT WHAT IS THIS ESSAY!!

Incredible try from Tambwe that allows the @UBBrugby to get back to the score!
TOTAL SUSPENSE 10 minutes from the end !! 🔥🔥 #LOUUBB pic.twitter.com/z8YjuKcPUj

— CANAL+ Rugby (@CanalplusRugby) June 4, 2023

In the aftermath, Lucu converted a 50-meter penalty to take an option ten minutes from the end (20-25). But it was said that this match would be played on a thread. The LOU Maraku centre's try reset the clock (25-25, 74th) just before Tambwe, again flattened at the end of a forty-metre run. Essay granted, Jalibert transformation. Bordeaux snatched victory with two minutes to go.

Points

Lyon: 3 tries from Dumortier (9th), Tuisova (30th), Maraku (74th), 2 transformations from Sopoaga (9th, 30th), 2 penalties from Sopoaga (40th, 58th)

Bordeaux-Bègles: 4 tries from Jalibert (6th), Diaby (47th), Tambwe (67th, 78th), 3 transformations from Jalibert (47th, 67th, 78th), 2 penalties from Jalibert (24th), Lucu (69th)

Source: leparis

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