Lyon surprise the French champion
Xavier Garbajosa’s men surprised the Montpellier champions (33-26) at GGL Stadium, which resulted in their third consecutive defeat (8And15 points) and will have to seriously question themselves before going to Racing 92 the next day.
This success, which confirms the good momentum of the Les Gones after the victory against Bordeaux-Bègles, will allow LOU to breathe a little (7And17 pt).
Castres continues home
Castres, finalist last season, chained a 25And victory of rank in his lair of Pierre-Fabre, dominating Bayonne (39-22), thanks in particular to a festival of his first goal Benjamin Urdapilletta, 22 points alone and 100% success at the feet.
At the interval (16-16), the Basques (9And13 pts) could still believe it but Pierre-Henry Broncan’s men started the second, well helped by Bayonnais Rasaku’s yellow card and a penalty try awarded by the referee to Tarnais.
The Stade Français overthrows Pau
Largely behind the interval (7-29), seemingly disoriented, then outnumbered after the red card sent to Argentina’s third line Marcos Kremer in the 58th minute, Stade Français were able to show Hameau pride in having finally overturned slightly Pau (31-29) and go up to … 2And provisional place (18 pt)!
Enough to feed deep regrets for the Section which, after seeing all its points scored in the first period, fell asleep completely upon returning from the locker room and camped in the penultimate place (9 pt) of the championship, lining up a fourth defeat in the standings .
Clermont went on his side to win at Aimé-Giral on the Perpignan red lantern (20-10), in a rather monotonous match but which allows the Auvergnats to temporarily get on the podium (3And18 pt).
the 7And the day continues in the evening (21h05) with the meeting between the UBB (12.05)And) and Racing 92 (10And) while Sunday’s final will see La Rochelle (4And) welcome Toulon (5And), in a Marcel-Deflandre stadium once again sold out.
