On the move to Glasgow, the first team officially in possession of their ticket for the final of the finals, Friday evening on behalf of the 3rd day of Champions Cup, Racing 92, which may regret having woken up too late, suffered a new defeat (29-19) and retains 5th place in its group, synonymous with provisional elimination.
In bad shape in the championship, Racing 92 did not raise the head in the European Cup. On the move Friday evening in the advanced match of the 3rd day of champions cup on the lawn of a team of Glasgow which presented the same assessment as the Ile-de-France (a victory, a defeat) before the kick-off, the Racingmen, who came to Scotland without several of their executives (Le Garrec, Woki, Tuisova …) and always deprived of Gaël Fickou, were again the cup (29-19) therefore retain the 5th place of this group 4 dominated so far by Toulon. The protégés of Laurent Travers may regret having woken up too late in this part disputed by an icy temperature.
When he finally decided to ring the revolt, the Warriors, the first team officially qualified on Friday for the knockout stages, indeed already led. At the start of the nightmare match for the Ile -de -France residents, the Ecossais had it was true only two minutes to find the fault for the first time, by George Horne. This same Horne released on injury, Jamie Dobie, who had just replaced him, also surprised the defense of Racing and went to Lady for the second time of the evening fifteen minutes later. It was then the turn of Argentinian Sebastian Cancelliere to take advantage of the torpor in the French camp to go flatten too.
Racing reacts, but far too late …
And after less than 25 minutes of play, Glasgow, the future semi-finalist announced for many, was already leading 17-0. An essay by Vinaya Habosi briefly allowed Racingmen to revive, but without calming the ardor of the Ecossais, who offered the provisional offensive bonus on a fourth test, this time marked by the Australian Sione Tuipulotu. The Fifth Essay of the Warriors was not long in coming and Rory Darge in turn scored his name for a then ruthless display table (29-7) for Racing, which was nevertheless going to finish very strong and react twice at the end of the match. First on a test by Lee-Marvin Mazibuko then another, in the process, signed Tristan Tedder while his team evolved in numerical superiority.
On arrival, the sky blue and white fail fail in a test only of this same double bonus that Glasgow had been able to snatch in Toulon at the end of 2024. The Racingmen had the ball to achieve it, but did not know how to take advantage of it. They will therefore still have to wait before them too, possibly compost their ticket for the future.
