Bordeaux (AFP)
After Toulouse, Toulon. Bordeaux-Bègles version Christophe Urios recorded Saturday a second success of rank, wider and improved this time (34-12) against a RCT lacking inspiration, which allows him to take the lead of the Top 14.
Is the transplant taking? In any case, it looks like, after the demonstration of the Girondins who have left only crumbs Varois yet frisky opening the championship in Agen.
Like Rémi Lamérat, a valuable rookie in the center of the field and prolific with his double (25, 52), or Matthieu Jalibert, who found peps and vista with a solo test (36), an offering from above for the second test of Lamérat and a 100% against the poles, the UBB radiated.
Bordeaux-Bègles showed themselves defensively when the opposing sequences lengthened and opportunistic at will on the recovery balls. In conquest, the men of Christophe Urios have also risen in power, with a cons in touch at the top in the second period.
Only downside: his melee, which prevented him from further establishing his hegemony.
However, this issue was far from being written after twenty minutes, the men of Patrice Collazo, more dense and solid, giving blow for blow (3-3, 19).
This is the time that the malicious Lamérat chose to recover a ball lost in contact by Geoffrey Cros, to go to register a validated test to the video.
On their way, the Unionists pushed a defense on the recoil and Jalibert went off on his own recovering a kick for himself in the visitor-in-goal (17-6, 37th).
Local intentions did not weaken when the locker room came back, helped by a bad inspiration from Ben Te'o who served ... Jean-Baptiste Dubié. The game then rebounded, and Adrien Pélissié killed almost all suspense for the win of the match (42).
The bonus in his pocket, he had to secure, what Jalibert has done to do by sending a pass to the foot over Lamérat again behind the line.
In spite of all his will, Toulon lacked ammunition to be able to counter the plans of Bordeaux, who did not let go until the end.
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