59 points to 3, was there anything else to add at the end of this final after this Toulouse demonstration against the Bordeaux team? Stade Toulousain, a regular at this type of meeting, humiliated a Bordeaux-Bègles team that was completely off the mark on Friday in Marseille, to lift its 23rd Brennus Shield and achieve a third European Cup and Championship double.
Nine tries to zero, it’s the biggest gap in the history of a Top 14 final. A recital, a lesson that the Girondin captain Maxime Lucu, collapsed on the pitch at the end of 80 minutes of ordeal, is not ready to forget: “It wasn’t a match from start to finish, which reflects the reality on the pitch and the difference between that club and ours. It was our first final and I think they’re in their 31ste. We see the difference in apprehension. We were a little timid, we were a little afraid of this team I think. »
Toulouse never gave Bègles-Bordeaux the slightest opportunity to enter this game, taking the game on its own from the first to the last minute. Clinical, pragmatic, precise, fast and disciplined, Stade Toulouse has recited its lesson. From the 7e minute the mass was said after a restart from Thomas Ramos and a try at the end of the course from Antoine Dupont. But Dupont also did Dupont accelerating the pace, varying the game, the scrum half from the pink city afforded the luxury of a double on a personal feat of which only he is capable. Following a maul, on a ball recovered by Mauvaka, the captain of the French XV and future player of the Olympic Sevens team, took a small kick for himself, above his liner among the Blues Maxime Lucu, to flatten (22-3, 23rd).
On the Bordeaux side, nothing to get your teeth into, not the slightest clear and clear opportunity, just the need not to catch the tide and try whatever it takes to stem the waves coming from the banks of the Garonne.
The three-quarters, so brilliant during the season, were deprived of the ball, like Damian Penaud, who was never able to use his speed. The other UBB winger, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, was taken off prematurely, as a symbol of the impotence of the “Patrouille de France.”
Archi-dominated in the first period, the second will become a path of the cross for Bordeaux, with a succession of tries from the 64e minute and in particular a very last one from the fiery Italian Ange Capuozzo who also came to take part in the party. “What can I say after a final like that. Bordeaux had a very good season, we cannot deny it, but tonight I believe we were above in all sectors. » summed up the red and black full-back Thomas Ramos, both happy to be part of this golden generation, but also humble in the face of an opponent who was discovering this level of competition: “I have a lot of respect and friends in this team.”
The final word will go to Toulouse Manager Ugo Mola: “We may have faced a very weakened Bordeaux after two home matches (against Racing in the play-off then Stade Français in the semi-final), but
this adversary will be one of the worrying adversaries in the coming years. »
In the meantime, Toulouse has left its mark on French and European Rugby a little more and this Saturday once again the Place du Capitole will be red with pleasure.
