Paris (France) (AFP)

Lyon without sharing. The LOU is now the only team in the Top 14 to have won all its matches, thanks to the draw of Bordeaux-Bègles in Montpellier before the match at the top between the two teams.

Lyon five out of five

Unstoppable. Lyon continued their momentum Saturday beating the Racing 92 (31-20) unhindered in Nanterre.

That Lyon has waited for the fifth day to cash his first two tries - against four against Racing - says a lot about the supremacy of Pierre Mignoni's men.

The LOU takes full advantage of the World Cup that deprives most "big" of their international, like the Racing, penultimate.

The Lyonnais can arrive without fear at the next game, at the top, against their - also unexpected - dolphin Bordeaux-Bègles.

Bordeaux hold, Jalibert cracks

For Bordeaux-Bègles, the pill will be difficult to swallow. Not only the UBB misses five out of five, with a 17-17 draw in Montpellier, but she mostly lost Sunday nugget Matthieu Jalibert, who injured a wrist just before halftime.

The opener and best scorer of the championship so far, who had a near-white 2018 year because of two serious injuries to the left knee, suffered a dislocation of the ulna and will be unavailable two months.

In the Montpellier fortress where the MHR is undefeated since February, UBB scored one more try but conceded too many penalties and suffered two temporary exclusions.

"Today, there was plenty of room to win," lamented Bordeaux midfielder Yann Lesgourgues, referring to moments when "we did a little bit of anything individually".

Clermont runs

After two defeats of rank, Clermont, the outgoing finalist, was relaunched by going to beat 32-18 Sunday in Paris the Stade Français, now red lantern.

In a prolific and muscular match (4 tries, 3 yellow cards), the Jaunards took advantage of the chronic indiscipline of the Parisians, offensive but rough, much too penalized and sanctioned by a scorer Jake McIntyre impeccable face to the posts (8 of 8) .

"No matter how you play, with 15 penalties (conceded), it's impossible to win a match," said Stadist coach Heyneke Meyer of South Africa.

The ASM is back in the top 6 and is tied with Montpellier, his next opponent.

Toulouse and Castres wake up

The king's return? Stade Toulousain finally woke up, without success but taking the 4 points Saturday against Pau (24-23).

The defending champions, who beat Pau by just one point (24-23), may have begun to get out of the rut of the World Cup and his lot of "doubles" with this second victory in five matches , which prevents them from sinking into crisis and ranking (10th).

Castres was saved by his opener Julien Dumora, who had six kicks and scored a try for the victory of his side against Agen (30-27).

The Pau division, with a defensive bonus point brought back from Toulouse, is in third place, tied with Bayonne, winner of La Rochelle (23-22) despite the exclusion of Census Johnston

Toulon hold

The bulk for whom this day will be forgotten is Toulon, droughtfully beaten at the Brive (39-17) promoted by scorer Thomas Laranjeira (24 points).

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