Once again, the Parisians prevail on the wire! The French stadium narrowly won (23-16) against Toulouse at the Jean-Bouin stadium, where it has now been untouchable for six games. Opposite, the Red and Blacks nevertheless dominated the second period, Sunday March 6, at the end of the 19th day.
Despite the absences of his French internationals and the numerous injuries, the reigning French champion nevertheless intended to rekindle a positive dynamic during this trip to Paris. But the French Stadium, now 8th with 45 points, remained on a victory (29-28) during its last opposition on February 11 at the Stadium of Toulouse, in a late match of the 13th day.
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As on the way @SFParisRugby crucifies the Toulousains on the last action Victory snatched on the last action of the Parisians who continue their ascent to the Top 6 pic.twitter.com/rdQgajKNXo— TOP 14 Rugby (@top14rugby) March 6, 2022
A return match only three weeks after the first leg: the meeting promised to be original to say the least, explosive for the most part. She was like a “classic”. Tense, with a rather Parisian first period and a distinctly Toulouse second.
It was Fijian international center Waisea Nayacalevu who scored the first try of the match, his eighth in the Top 14, making him the joint-top try scorer in the league alongside Samoan Bordeaux-Bègles, Ulupano Seuteni.
The rest came down to waste, clashes and the most serious: a dangerous tackle by Toulouse pillar Charlie Faumuina on Parisian Lester Etien. the New Zealander received a logical yellow card for this fault. Then outnumbered, Stade Toulouse scored the second try of the match, signed by their young 21-year-old hooker, Guillaume Cramont (35th), but then remained behind the Parisians at half-time (13-10).
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Upon returning from the locker room, the domination of Toulouse, more players, was affirmed, materialized by a successful penalty from Zach Holmes (13-13, 60th), which was answered by three points from Joris Segonds (16-13, 64th) . The end of the match was marked by a new yellow card, addressed this time to a Parisian, the second row Juan John Van der Mescht.
Holmes did not tremble to pick up the score (16-16, 72nd). But the Parisian club is a regular in matches won with forceps: at the last second, it snatched the winning try thanks to its back Kylan Hamdaoui, following a superb recovery from New Zealander Ngani Laumape.
The Toulouse stadium, now 7th with 48th pointswill have to put his head back in place before receiving Montpellier in two weeksduring the last late game to catch up for the XV of the “pink city”.