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Phenomenal and colossal Stade Toulousain which, at the Stade Vélodrome, appropriates the Marseille motto and adds a host of records for a 23rd Brennus shield and a new double.
A third double in the club’s history. A second for this generation. A tenth consecutive final won. The first club to win a championship final in Marseille. And of course, the first club to reach 23 shields. Shall we continue? The team that scored the most points in the final (59). The team that triumphed by the biggest margin (56). No more, Stade Toulousain places the word premier in all the squares of the great rugby scrabble. Gigantic, colossal, giant.
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LIVE. Stade Toulousain – UBB Final: “We wanted to make history…” Toulouse wins its 23rd Brennus! Follow the post-match live
This season, the story is all the more beautiful because this 23rd Brennus shield was gleaned at the end of the longest season ever due to the World Cup. The followers predicted a difficult season for the Stade. In the end, it seemed so easy even if the term does not suit the humility of this sport.
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Stade Toulousain – Bordeaux Final: Thomas Ramos sets a prestigious record in Toulouse, surpassing an illustrious former “red and black”
Like this final which the first of the regular phase mastered from start to finish, scoring nine tries and conceding none. And Bordeaux-Bègles only owed it to the lack of success of the Toulouse scorers to experience a more severe sanction… With three tries scored in the 23rd minute, the final was already in trouble.
Le festival Dupont
For this, apart from two poorly negotiated kick-offs, the Toulouse team initially contained the Bordeaux energy during the first twenty minutes and won the battle; thus quickly killing the match. Because it was obvious that after the semi-final, the Toulouse team would rectify the situation in the ground game, like Jack Willis, who was simply enormous. In this respect, the second try was a model of upwind percussion with quick releases across the width, finishing with a touchside try by Mauvaka.
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Stade Toulousain – Bordeaux-Bègles final, player ratings: “Super Dupont” and “Bruce” Willis win the Oscar, Jalibert and Lucu unrecognizable
Previously, the Toulousains had already found the fault through Dupont before the latter repeated the feat with a model try of collective qualities (combination articulated around Neti, Mauvaka and Mallia) and individual qualities (small overhand from Dupont on Lucu), There was then only one team on the field. And the defensive freshness constituted an additional sword stroke in the armor of the Bordeaux (then too much spectators) who completely missed their final and lost their bet with the starting positions of Jalibert and Tameifuna.
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Stade Toulousain – Bordeaux-Bègles Final: Antoine Dupont’s Revenge! How the Star Player Conjured the Curse of the Vélodrome
It was also obvious that Bordeaux would never make up the deficit and that the physical freshness of the Toulousains would end up definitively destroying their opponents. So it was still a lone rider until the end of the match with six other tries scored. Until the apotheosis and this last try by Capuozzo. A 100-meter try, in the Toulousaine style, when the Bordeaux team were on the verge of saving their honor. A final fireworks display that left the Bordeaux team scattered like a puzzle on the pitch. Never seen before in a final.
