RC Toulon validated its ticket by taking the best on Castres (52-23) in the top 14 dam. They therefore join Bordeaux-Bègles in the semi-finals.
It hadn’t happened since 2017! Toulon will participate this season in the last square of the Top 14 after having tiled Castres in the dam. The RCT can dream of a fifth title and reiterate the 2014 season, the last coronation of the club in the league. At the shoulder to shoulder until the time of play, the CO fell off at the end of the match by collecting four tries in less than 15 minutes. It is therefore a last “logical” square which will be played next week since the first four of the regular phase will meet in Lyon.
“Let the beginning”, as Jérémy Sinzelle explained at the end of the brilliant RCT victory against Castres. By scoring six tests and 40 points in the second half, Toulon exploded his opponent in a molten Mayol. It was notably the test of Facundo Isa who capsized the stadium (69th, 33-23). The start of the Toulon festival that Ben White (71st), Ma’a Nonu (78th)-Three quarter marked its first try since 2018-and Wainiqolo (80th) at the end of the in-goal came to complete. Faster, sharp in the 22 opposing and domineering in the transitional game, Toulon has folded the CO. However, nothing suggested a broad success, especially when the score was 26-23 in favor of the RCT and the Essay by Jérémy Fernandez (58th) that the melee half transformed.
Insufficient papali’i test, the Castres not rewarded
For 60 minutes, the two teams went blow for blow. Abraham Papali’i scored the match of the match on a penalty played at the foot and by pushing two veneers to infiltrate in the in-goal (18th, 3-7). Reduced to 14 after the brown yellow, (14th), which will come out on injury just like Palis, Castres resists never leaving the RCT fly away. Even when Serin gave his team 10 points ahead, Fernandez reduced the gap. But the breathtaking end of the locals made the difference. The RCT saw Jaminet register 25 points.
