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1/2 final: the summary of Stade Toulousain vs Harlequins
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After two failures in the last four, Antoine Dupont’s partners returned to the final of the European competition on Sunday, dominating the English at the Stadium.
The Pink City can celebrate its Rouge et Noir. Stade Toulouse qualified for the final of the Champions Cup, Sunday May 5, after its success against Harlequins in a boiling Stadium (38-26). A spectacular showdown, won by Ugo Mola’s men who suffered two defeats in the semi-finals over the last two seasons.
Authors of a fiery first period, the locals returned at the break with already five tries on the clock, including a double from Antoine Dupont (31-12). A lead which allowed them to resist the return of the English, unleashed after going to the locker room. To the point of coming back to just five lengths (31-26) at the start of the last quarter of an hour, before a saving try from Toulouse winger Juan Cruz Mallia, which came just after a yellow card collected by the hooker Jack Walker for an illegal clearance on the French international scrum-half.
The Haut-Garonnais can now aim for a sixth European star. Three years after their triumph at Twickenham against La Rochelle, they will meet the Irish from Leinster in the final – defeaters of Northampton on Saturday (20-17) – in London, on May 25 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
