Logic would dictate that the two best teams of the regular season, Toulouse and La Rochelle, find themselves in the final of the Top 14. But the Top 14 is always full of surprises. And Racing and UBB also have ambitions.
In Top 14, there is little evidence. This would like the two best teams in the championship for three or four seasons to meet again in the final. She would imagine a remake of the double confrontation of 2021 which had seen the Stade Toulouse prevail against The Rochelle in the two finals (Top 14 and Champions Cup). She would like this meeting between the two best teams in the world, which bring together the crowds as much as the viewers. But the evidence is rare in this game which recently crowned Montpellier in 2022, and Castres in 2018, far from obvious. However, on the eve of these two Top 14 semi-finals, it is hard to imagine that Toulouse et The Rochelle miss their appointment.
Toulouse and La Rochelle big favorites
Toulouse et The Rochelle are huge favourites. It is indisputable. Firstly because they have been efficient and consistent throughout the season. Toulouse can even claim to have been leader of the championship for 24 days, and La Rochelle to have never left the Top 6. Because they are also the two best defenses of the Top 14 and the two formations which have the largest contingents of players from the France team: 15 in Toulouse, 9 in The Rochelle. And finally, most incumbents. And so most players who count as Antoine Dupont at the Stadium or Greg Bullshit in the Maritimes. Favorites also because they are the scarecrows of this Top14, the most beautiful, the strongest, the most powerful. And that their opponents of the weekend seem much lighter at the time of entering the ring.
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Fresh or soft?
However, no one can predict if La Rochelle has recovered well from its Champions League title, or if Stade Toulousain has not caught a heat stroke during its internship in Portugal. This season, the period without playing has been long for the Toulouse and La Rochelle executives. At a time when we praise the merits of rhythm. Did they make fresh or soft?
We also bet that the Racingmen and the Bordelais did not fight with ardor in the barrage, obtaining the ticket for Anoeta in enemy territory, to finally allow themselves to be punished at the gates of the final. On the contrary, praise for their opponents are so many punchlines that end up plastered on the locker room door. Motivation levers offered to put an extra shot of heat before crossing swords. Thus, there is no evidence. Except that this Toulouse-Racing on Friday evening, and the La Rochelle – Bordeaux-Bègles poster on Saturday, will offer us two magnificent rugby matches, in the marvelous setting of the Anoeta stadium in Saint-Sébastien.
2023-06-07 05:28:20
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