Paris (France) (AFP)
Clermont won a prolific and muscular match in Paris on Sunday (32-18), sinking Stade Français at the bottom of the Top 14 standings at the end of the fifth day.
With two tries, as much as their opponent, and an 8 out of 8 at the foot of their striker Jake McIntyre, the Jaunards have won a victory that has eluded them for two games and are invited in the top 6 of the ranking (12 points).
Stade Français, meanwhile, failed to recover the bar two weeks after defeating Bordeaux-Bègles (52-3) and confirms its catastrophic start to the season, with only one win in five games.
With a very young team, in the absence of internationals retained by the World Cup, Stade Français attacked the floor and opened the score of an easy penalty of the 22-year-old opener Joris Segonds (3rd).
But they multiplied the faults and bad gestures, sanctioned by Jake McIntyre who seized the first place in the ranking of the directors (68 points).
And three-quarter wing Adrien Lapègue was logically sanctioned with a yellow card (30th) after a huge shock at the reception of a candle with the Clermont Clermontois Abendanon.
Against the Clermontois also reduced to 14 (Timani, 38th), the Stadistes nevertheless doubled intensity and ended up marking the first try of the game, by the back Kylan Hamdaoui who flattened between the posts (13-12, 39th).
The replica Auvergnate arrived at the recovery. The Jaunards pierced the Paris defense and Samuel Ezeala flattened (41).
Clermont doubled the lead a little later by Fritz Lee (51st), overflowing the Paris defense on the left side.
Heyneke Meyer's men responded with a corner essay by Jonathan Danty (54).
The same Danty sent the half of Clermont Morgan Parra to the infirmary, injured after a head-to-head collision with the Paris winger.
But the lead taken thanks to the penalties allowed the Clermontois to manage quietly the end of the match, before the reception the next day of Montpellier.
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