Bègles (France) (AFP)
Bordeaux-Bègles, opposed to a remodeled Clermont team, did not miss the opportunity to improve a valuable victory (42-15) that allows him to take sole place in the top 14 dolphin Sunday night at the end of the 7th day of Top 14.
Target achieved but copy to review for the UBB. Unclear for a long time, with clumsiness and bad connections unusual compared to their latest domestic releases, the Girondins had the skin of the ASM wear by shattering the visitor's defensive lock, breathless after the hour of play
After two trips to Montpellier and Lyon, which brought them three points, this third five-point victory of the season brings them closer to four unbeaten Lyon.
In view of the reception of this same leader next weekend, the ASM had decided to run and the winners of Montpellier (20-13), only Moala and Ezeala were renewed by Franck Azéma.
Auvergnat's manager did not plan to lose four players in injury in the first half, which did not disrupted his friends who responded quickly to their hosts with a first-hand test. a melee, with Ezeala's breakthrough and Tuicuvu's conclusion (23).
Bordeaux side, we saw little fluidity of the beginning of the season. The men of Christophe Urios played a long time backwards, reassuring the score only on a penaltouche converted into a test by Paiva (16), another powerful Tamanivalu just before the siren against Clermont at 14, and the boot of Botica.
After the break, the scenario has changed little. Cordero, after a crossing Tamanivalu, widened the gap in the gap (28-10) but Lanen replied on penaltouche five minutes later (56).
In her quest for the bonus, the UBB then accelerated, multiplying the energy-consuming sequences and out of the most grueling of all (4 minutes 39 seconds), she made the break by Lesgourgues, cramped at the beginning of the action (35-15).
With a bench at the physical level, she propelled Dubié ideally arrived at a height behind for a delivery of Chaban at six minutes of the term.
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