Bordeaux-Bègles, 3rd in the regular season, qualified Sunday evening for the semi-finals of the Top 14 after their big victory at home in the play-off against Racing 92 (36-16).
UBB will face Montpellier in the last four next Saturday in Nice, an opponent they have beaten twice this season. The other semi-final will have opposed the day before Castres, first of the regular season, in Toulouse, the defending champion.
This is the second season in a row that Christophe Urios’ men have reached this level, and each time through the play-off. To achieve this, they delivered an irresistible second act with four registered tries which capsized the 27,000 spectators present. A great response after the snub of Perpignan, during the 26th and last day of the regular season, which had deprived them of direct access to the semi-finals.
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Well launched in this initially choppy match, rough throughout, by a try from Santiago Cordero at the conclusion of a penalty quickly played by Maxime Lucu 70 meters upstream (20), the Girondins did not panic when the Ile-de-France residents fired in the lead at the break after Max Spring’s try following a penalty (6-8), and increased their lead on the restart on a penalty from Nolann Le Garrec.
Because behind, they extinguished the visitors’ hopes in ten minutes and three superb tries, the first two in first hand on scrum signed UJ Seuteni (47) and Romain Buros (54), and the last by Cameron Woki in corner with Matthieu Jalibert also in the shot (29-16, 58).
Sure of their rugby and their strength, supported by a full and noisy Chaban, the Unionists managed the last twenty minutes perfectly, even finishing in apotheosis with a fifth try from Ben Lam at the last minute.
