. Castres shower Toulouse
Despite its internationals, Stade Toulouse lost its match against Castres Olympique (4th, 58 points), winner in its lair of Pierre-Fabre, where it is undefeated for the 19th consecutive time. The Rouge et Noir (5th, 57 pts), whose Chelemards were not all up to it in the Tarn, no longer have “more room for error“, as their scrum half Antoine Dupont warned, as a tunnel of crucial meetings looms for the end of the season, between the European Cup and the championship.
. Toulon on a cloud
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By signing five tries in Lyon, the RCT has given itself the right to dream of a qualifying place in the final stages. Thanks to this third victory in a row, when in mid-February they were in last place in the standings, the Varois, ninth, are now three points from the top 6: sacred character! Humiliated, the Lyonnais for their part suffered a third defeat in a row. “How to recover from that, how to react?“, wondered the manager of LOU, Pierre Mignoni, after the meeting. Indeed …
. Clermont, master of the Auvergne derby
By passing 41 points to its Brive neighbor, ASM was able to react after its defeat in Toulon last weekend, to take seventh place (53 points), thanks in particular to a double from its center George Moala and the kick of foot of his metronome Morgan Parra. What to see coming with a little more serenity the round of 16 first leg of the European Cup, next Sunday against Leicester.
. Montpellier got scared
The MHR, still leading the championship with 68 points after their victory in the last minutes over Perpignan (23-13), almost lost their crown at Aimé-Giral, during a choppy and rough match during which the ‘Usap showed more than courage. And it will take the Catalans who, penultimate, are heading straight for a play-off against the unfortunate finalist of Pro D2.
. Paul continues his momentum
The Pau Section (10th, 49 pts), by going to win in Aguilera at its Basque neighbor Biarritz Olympique (42-19), certainly chained a third victory in a row, but especially lost in the very last minutes of the meets the point of the offensive bonus which would have been precious, while the men of Sébastien Piqueronies will have to fight inch by inch during the next days with Clermont (7th, 53 pts) and Toulon (9th, 51 pts) in order to hope to win a place in the Top 6. The BO (14th, 24 pts), meanwhile, is almost guaranteed to spend next season in Pro D2, enough to have “shame” according to its president Jean-Baptiste Aldigé.
. To the west is La Rochelle
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The meeting between Bordeaux-Bègles and Stade Rochelais, in the evening at the Chaban-Delmas stadium, the first of three “atlantic derbies” in three weeks, ended in a victory (16-15) over the men of Ronan O’Gara, authors of the only two tries of the match against the five penalties of the neo-international scrum half and slam of the ‘UBB, Maxime Lucu This victory, at the end of an extremely tense match, allows La Rochelle to move up to 3rd place (58 pts), behind their unfortunate evening opponent, UBB (63 pts).
