To tell the truth, our personal rugby obligations on Sunday did not allow us to follow the performances of the French clubs live, so we were surprised to see the scores inflicted by UBB and Toulouse.
The last time there was such astonishment? It was heads during the 2023 Crunch, when the Blues went to stick 50 pawns against the British at Twickenham, since we were at the Vélodrome stadium during the last Top 14 final, won by Stade Toulousain (59 to 3).
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A Toulouse which destroyed Leicester this Sunday, making the Tigers look like little cats without claws. With a scathing 80 to 12 inflicted by the partners of Ange Capuozzo, otherwise on cloud nine this January 20.
In this regard, where does Toulouse's performance rank in the European Cup record books? A word which therefore brings together the different formulas of the HCup and the Champions Cup.
-No it's not a record
Here and there, we remember the 92 points scored by Stade Français in 2000 against Aquila, a very modest Italian team. Ditto during multiple corrections inflicted by Clermont in the heart of the 2010s, with this 0 to 82 (biggest away victory) inflicted on Aironi, another team which illustrated the weakness of Italian franchises at the time, far from this team of current Treviso, who took the scalp of La Rochelle this weekend, after that of Bath recently.
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A rarity that we also found without going back so far in the history books. In 2022, the MHR had largely rotated when moving to Leinster and had conceded a very heavy 89 to 7.
Finally, the biggest victory in the competition goes to Toulouse, who annihilated the Welsh side EBBW Vale, 108-16, in 1998. So much so that for the anecdote, the scoreboard was found obsolete, not being able to display a score above 99 points. It's no surprise to anyone: the Reds and Blacks love this competition. And this has always been true!
