Champions Cup – A new headache for the Bordelais after their success in Exeter

The glorious uncertainty of sport will only have been paraded for a few minutes on the pitch at Sandy Park. Time for Exeter winger Paul Brown-Bampoe to score a solo counter try after a 90-metre run, thus putting an end to a first eight-minute siege by Union Bordeaux-Bègles in twenty-two English meters. The response from the people of Bordeaux was immediateless than two minutes later, the beginnings of a show of strength, with eleven tries scored and sixty-nine points on the scoreboard for their biggest victory of the season.

We continue to grow

Yannick Bru’s players found in England what they came for: a five-point victory by taking care of the points difference on the scoreboardaware that the Toulouse residents left with a bonus of forty points from this same Sandy Park in December. In this distance fight with the reigning champions, the Bordelais could congratulate themselves on having scored more points for a difference of 52 points at the final whistle. Enough to make Shaun Sowerby smile despite his unfeigned humility to avoid humiliating the Chiefs a little more: “The rules of the competition mean that the team that finishes first has an advantage, and we know the quality of our Toulouse opponent so that’s why we pushed to score tries and make up the difference in goal average […] Now we have to beat the Sharks, with the offensive bonus if possible.”

After taking control of the Top 14 last weekend thanks to an improved success on the pitch at the Stade français, Maxime Lucu’s teammates are now at the top of their Champions Cup group, with their destiny in hand before the grand finale, thus overtaking Toulouse each time, which is no small thing. “It’s important, recognized the UBB captain, still masterful this Saturday. We see that the group is progressing. It is important for the club, the group, the staff, to validate the work that is carried out each week. We see that we are gaining strength little by little. There are crossing points that are important. Today, we were only focused on our match but we knew that a fight also existed with other teams. You had to win, take the bonus and score as many points as possible. We managed to do it. We continue to grow and I find that we are growing from release to release. We have to continue like this.” It would be too stupid to miss out on a twenty out of twenty which would reward the good student from Bordeaux but also a ninth consecutive victory, and thus beat the UBB record established last season.