Toulon (AFP)
Thanks to the power of his forwards, Toulon dominated the Aviron bayonnais (20-9) Saturday at the Stade Félix-Mayol during the 8th day of the Top 14.
Fijian winger Masivesi Dakuwaqa and second-row Samoan Brian Alainu'uese scored both tests on the Var side. With this success, Toulon goes back to 4th place, while Bayonne is still third, before the clash between Clermont and Lyon on Sunday.
More punchy at the beginning of the match, the Toulonnais found the fault before the quarter of an hour of play. After a ball on a touch to the ten meters, winger Dakuwaqa pierced the Basque defense (13).
Too undisciplined in front of, but also on the ground phases, the men of Yannick Bru could not put the pressure on the Var and underwent the law of Anthony Belleau at the foot.
Without being glittering, the Red and Black relied on the power of their forwards who martyred their Basque counterparts.
But many times sanctioned by escaped balloons, the players of Patrice Collazo could not detach themselves and even saw the Bayonnais return to a converted test just before half-time (13-6), thanks to the boot of Brandon Fajardo .
After the entry of Mamuka Gorgodze, the first globalist to return to the Rade after the elimination of Georgia in the group stage in Japan, the second test Toulon has also arrived thanks to a new heavy work of the fronts on a balloon worn (48).
Despite a last hot action in his 22 meters late in the game, Toulon, still deprived of twenty players, saved his advantage and signed a second home game without cashing a try.
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