If Toulon opposed a good resistance in the first period, Bordeaux-Bègles ended up cracking the Varois to sign a large victory (39-24) and validates his ticket for the final of the Top 14, which will be a revenge against Toulouse.
Bordeaux-Bègles will be entitled to his revenge. A year after being stretched by Toulouse on the lawn of the Orange Vélodrome, the players of Yannick Bru composted their ticket for the Stade de France at the expense of Toulon. The public of Groupama Stadium had to wait until six minutes to see the score evolve. Indeed, if the RCT got their hands on the ball, a fault of Jean-Baptiste Gros offered a penalty to Matthieu Jalibert.
The latter did not tremble against the poles but he saw Melvyn Jaminet replied 180 seconds later after a fault on the ground of Ben Tameifuna. Consequently, the UBB controlled operations in the face of a courageous Var defense but which ended up yielding in the middle of the first act. At the end of the ball worn, the reversal of the game signed Maxime Lucu opened a breach for Nicolas Depoortere, who did not ask for his rest to go and flatten the first test of the meeting, not transformed. Shortly before half an hour of play, Maxime Lamothe started his show by forcing the passage in the defense of the RCT on a pass from his scrum half. Matthieu Jalibert passed the transformation to give twelve points ahead of the UBB.
Bordeaux-Bègles in master’s degree after the break
However, the Toulonnais had not said their last word with their efforts which ended up paying just before returning to the locker room. Perfectly launched by Paolo Garbisi at the exit from melee, Leicester Fainga’anuku decided to leave a last good memory of the Toulon supporters with a test which allowed his team to return to only five units at half-time of this semi-final. Except that this hope of overthrowing the Gironde machine has come up against reality. Barely five minutes after resumption of the game, Maxime Lamothe went there with his double.
At the end of a long sequence of possession, Yoram Moefana shifted his hooker so that he flatten at the foot of the poles, facilitating the work of Matthieu Jalibert on the transformation. Pierre Mignoni began to throw fresh blood but his team found himself fourteen in the 50th minute after the yellow card received by Matthias Halagahu for a voluntary-end near the in-goal line. A numerical inferiority which hurt RCT, which conceded two tests in a very short time. Perfectly served by a pass at the foot of his opener, Damian Penaud pointed out by flattening the fourth Girondin test.
Lamothe Superstar
In the process, Maxime Lamothe became the first player to sign a hat -trick in the final phase of the Top 14. Indeed, the hooker of the UBB concluded a sequence of possession victoriously on a pass from Nicolas Depoortere. The transformation signed Matthieu Jalibert gave the Girondine training 24 points ahead with 25 minutes to play. An end of the match that saw the Varois save the honor shortly after the hour of play. After a good ball worn by his forwards, Setareki Tuicuvu ignored the return of the defense of the UBB to register the second Toulon test in this meeting.
With his second evening penalty, Matthieu Jalibert pushed the RCT to 22 units at the start of the last quarter of an hour. The last minutes saw Yannick Bru players manage their advantage against Toulonnais ready to seize the slightest opportunity to reduce the gap. What Beka Gigashvili went to do in force at the start of the last minute of regulation time. A third Var test that will remain an advent of this meeting. Bordeaux-Bègles wins clearly (39-24) and will be the opponent of Toulouse next weekend at the Stade de France during a final of the expected top 14.
