Never has a team crushed the other so much in the Top 14 final. UBB was no match for Stade Toulousain, this Friday in a packed Vélodrome stadium (66,760 spectators), which had many opportunities to vibrate. The public had a great time, while Toulouse won its 10th final in a row with a crushing score (59-3). The Toulousains brilliantly offered themselves their 3rd Champions Cup-Championship double, after 1996 and 2021. Simply enormous.
Stade Toulousain dominated the Top 14 final in Marseille, as it has dominated the entire season. This Friday evening, it engraved its name on the Brennus Shield for the 23rd time, at the end of a match that it outrageously dominated from start to finish.
Decidedly insatiable, the Toulouse residents signed a third European Championship-Cup double after those of 1996 and 2021, winning their tenth consecutive final in all competitions.
The perfect KO in 20 minutes
Union Bordeaux Bègles (UBB), which was playing the first final in its young history, was never able to challenge the superiority of Toulouse, which quickly dashed Bordeaux’s hopes in the heat of the Vélodrome.
In a little over twenty minutes, the Toulouse residents, superior in the fight, had made the difference by showing formidable efficiency in converting all their incursions into the twenty-two meters of the Aquitains, caught in speed but also too tender in defense. and powerless and ineffective in their highlights like Matthieu Jalibert not really inspired because he lacks rhythm following his muscle injury.
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Moreover, the Bordeaux three-quarter line in the image of Damian Penaud was never able to weigh on the debates against the Toulouse winning machine.
On the contrary, in the wake of the omnipresent English flanker Jack Willis but also the inevitable Antoine Dupont, author of a double in the first half, the red and black recited their rugby with method and pragmatism.
They scored three remarkable tries, notably the second from the scrum half and the third from the Stade (23rd), at the end of a brilliant action after a touch and a school combination continued by an impeccable follow-up kick from the strategist Haut-Garonnais.
22-3, the suspense had already disappeared from this final even if the referee M. Cayre severely refused a second try to Mauvaka just after the siren following a stray touch by the Bordelais on their five meters.
Toulouse went into management mode in the second half before delivering the final blow in the form of six new tries scored by Ramos (64th and 74th), then Marchand (68th), Kinghorn (70th), AInu’u (79th) and finally Capuozzo (80th+2) to establish a record for points scored in a final (59-3).
Didier Cros
Toulouse 59 – Bordeaux-Bègles 3
MARSEILLE (Stade Vélodrome). Half-time: 22-3 for Toulouse. Referee: M. Cayre. 66,760 spectators (stadium attendance record).
Dots. Toulouse: nine tries from Dupont (6th, 23rd), Mauvaka (20th), Ramos (64th, 74th), Marchand (68th), Kinghorn (70th), Ainu’u (79th), Capuozzo (80th+2), two penalties (14th, 44th) from Ramos, four conversions from Ramos (6th, 23rd), Kinghorn (70th), Ntamack (79th).
Bordeaux-Bègles: a penalty (11th) from Lucu.
Yellow card. Bordeaux-Bègles: Tatafu (7th).
Toulouse. Ramos – Mallia (Capuozzo, 68th), Chocobares (Ahki, 76th), Ahki (Costes, 66th), Kinghorn – (o) Ntamack, (m) Dupont (cap.) (Graou, 70th) – Willis (Mauvaka, 77th) , Roumat (Vergé, 66th), Cros – Flament, Arnold (Brennan, 61st) – Aldegheri (Merkler, 54th), Mauvaka (Marchand, 54th), Neti (Ainu’u, 54th).
Bordeaux-Bègles. Buros – Penaud, Depoortere, Moefana, Bielle-Biarrey (Uberti, 50th) – (o) Jalibert (Abadie, 55th), (m) Lucu (cap.) – Diaby (Bochaton, 46th), Tatafu, Vergnes-Taillefer (Samu , 59th) – Coleman (Cazeaux, 66th), Cazeaux (Douglas, 55th); Tameifuna (Taufa, 47th), Lamothe (Maynadier, 59th), Poirot (Boniface, 46th).
