Boiling audiences, feint, condescending tape: masked oval surprise strips!

Perpignan-Toulon on the menu?No, masked oval could not inflict this.Fortunately, there was a rather nice ptite in Ernest-Wallon during Toulouse-Clermont...

Samedi soir, c’était le match à ne pas rater de la 4^e journée de Top 14.The big shock between the two clubs that have the most boiling audiences in the championship, Perpignan and Toulon!

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You will note that the adjective "boiling" is often used by the media when they do not dare to say "the big stupids that stumble for 80 minutes, including their own players".But here you know, we say things to ourselves.So I'm not going to chew my words to make you summarize this match which unfortunately did not keep its promises.

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Didn't you really believe it?

Pierre Villepreux would explain it to you better than me (in fact no, it would be even longer and with unbearable phrases): situational intelligence is knowing how to adapt in all circumstances and change your plans along the way.Why play the hero when two Samoan centers armed with machetes await you at the end of an Apia dark alley?In life, flight is often the best options.And after all, writing an account to the snatch, in less than 24 hours is perfectly possible with a little will.

This week, I will therefore come back to the match between Toulouse to Clermont, the only really regardable during this cursed weekend.Because even New Zealand-South Africa was an filthy purge, and that is a blow to make you a fan of cycling.

Since we are talking about bikes, let's immediately salute the audacity of ASM, who decided to approach this meeting in the Julian Alaphilippe, without any other strategy than that of attacking without respite, saying that with alittle luck, it may pass.We know that the Toulouse stadium is now the essential final boss of the top 14, but a final boss of arcade video game: almost impossible to beat, since created only so that naive candidates come to put back parts in the machineevery weekend.In good radins, the Auvergne do not want to pay more than a game, and therefore decide to play their only chance.

From the first moments of the meeting, the Jaunards invest in the Toulouse camp, then enter the 22m quickly.Served at the end of the line, Yato gets a first opportunity, then it was Vahaamahina who passes very close to flattening after having a panic of Dupont.Camille Lopez wastes ammunition by missing a penalty against the posts, but the © Clermontoise intentions end up paying, and after a new excursion in the 22, sheepishly serves Raka for a beautiful and long jumped pass for the first test of the match.0-5, the Beauden Barrett de Mauléon again missing the target on the transformation.

The red and black are jostled, suffocated, and again pierced by Matsushima.The action does not succeed, but we expect Ugo Mola at any time to take out a harp from behind his sidelines, and starts playing a complaint to sing that his little club without the sub will wellstruggling to hang the maintenance this season.But the music, we already know it.We remember the Toulousains in La Rochelle, of this start of the match full of rage and daring of the Maritimes, who did not try the penalties and ended up regretting it bitterly.

In Clermont, obviously, there was Truffade evening that day, because the lessons were not selected.On twice, Lopez is looking for the penaltric rather than the posts, and Toulouse is doing without taking points, thanks to this mixture of indiscipline-vicious-but-past-aszz-flandrant-for-a-carton andGood big French cat ©.

The rest, we know her.Since the start of the season, the Toulouse stadium has played rugby for about 42 seconds, and that was enough for them to win three games.On one of his rare offensives, he strikes: Dupont hits a clever kick in the in-goal, and Romain Ntamack takes us his special "You believed that I was sleeping but bim I plant you a try!"»».After 20 minutes of yellow domination without sharing, it's 7-5 for the Toulousains, to the great despair of Marc Lièvremont, who was in love with Clermontois and their flamboyant game.Marco is however well placed to know that there is no justice in this sport, especially when you are in the self-proclaimed country of rugby.

Not discouraged by this hard blow, the worshipers of Giscard d'Estaing continue to attack everything.Beheregaray, this hooker who always looks like a guy from the palmashow who is wholesale with a false mustache, offers us an improbable chistera in the center of the field.

Behind, the Bonito Clermont juga continues and we are again close to the test.But Lopez is plated in extremis.We will underline the beautiful defense of François Cros, and not the lack of speed of Lopez, this article already comprising far too much of grossophobia.

Dominators in the game, the Auvergne are also in scratch.5 meters from the Toulouse in-goal, they manage to recover the ball thanks to a big push.And this time, they materialize: the ball comes out quickly and Lopez serves Marvin O’Connor, who had just got into play, for the test.Yes you read correctly, Marvin O'Connor, the Gitan of Ovalie, the one who knew about 12 clubs in 10 years, before retraining in rugby at 7, a sport where he was able to live his passion fortravel and enlarge your tie collection.We will note in passing this crazy statistic: in 12 seconds, O’Connor will have marked as many tests as Bastien Pourailly in 12 games.

If when reading these words, you wonder "But who is Bastien Pourailly?""Know that I don't have the answer either.The winger could no doubt have access to greater notoriety if he had scored the third try of his team just before the break.Alas for him, he was cut by the saving tackle of Pita Ahki, whose return makes Toulouse good good.

It must be said that we always need a tireless worker of this kind, especially when next there is the intermittent of the Zack Holmes spectacle.The Australian will also take his traditional card for an anti -challenge action, which will allow us to tell us "Ah, he was there".On the action, the Clermontois could also have benefited from a penalty test, which will not fail to put a piece in another machine, that of the eternal pro-Toulousain plot.

The first period ends with the score of 10-12 in favor of the ASM-yes, the Red and Black also found the way to put a penalty on their second attack ball.It is an understatement to say that it is badly paid for visitors.But the Toulouse stadium is the Medef of rugby: with them everyone is at the minimum wage, regardless of the effort produced.

The return of the locker room sounds the revolt of the locals, probably motivated by the speech of Ugo Mola, who probably had to encourage his players to revolt against the multiple injustices that their club has been undergoing for months - economic crisis, duplicates, injuries,Disappointed refereeing, Cheslin Kolbe's leak in cagolia, rotten weather, etc ... After two minutes of play, they find the fault thanks to the power of Anthony Jelonch, the third line formed at the club since the age of 25 years.The stadium returns to, 17-12, when it always evolves at 14.

On the Jaunard side, we do not let go of the case, in the wake of a Damian Penaud replaced in the center and dangerous on each shot.We feel that in one against one, the guy is almost unplayable.Fortunately as soon as he crosses the defense, he does something totally silly, like a kick to follow in the stands or an aufelode in the void.Proof that a brain is as useful for rugby and that it is probably thanks to this small supplement that Arthur Vincent left to hold in the French team for the next 10 years.

Without being able to mark a test, the Clermontois fall back on the drop, this outdated practice which has found more and more followers since the Parisian hipster Joris Segonds tried to launch a fashion last season.Camille Lopez perfectly adjusts her kick, 17-15.

We spend the time of play, the pace slows down somewhat and we feel that the match can switch on one side or the other.The only question is: when will he switch to the Toulouse stadium?As often, the answer is: when Antoine Dupont has decided.

Well helped by Etienne Fourcade, who challenged himself to beat the failed throwing record of Pierre Bourgarit, the Toulousains obtain a scrum at the entrance to the 22.Tolofua serves Dupont, who always crosses life in easy mode, and also crosses yellow and blue defense in passing.24-15 after transformer, then 27-15 after a stupid fault that offers three more points to Ramos.It's folded, thank you, goodbye.

Alas for them, the Clermontois will not leave with anything more than a tape on the shoulder and a condescending "well -tried", since they will not be able to get a defensive bonus in the last 10 minutes of the meeting.Auvergne supporters will nevertheless be able to say that since Jono Gibbes's return, it plays a lot, and it is a thought that should warm their hearts when approaching an Auvergne winter that we know rude (already that the'summer, it's not terrible either).

Regarding Toulouse, the walking forward continues.The next goal promises to be grand, perhaps even greater than the double in Top 14 or victory in the European Cup: going to win in Biarritz with a hinge Alexi Balès-Zack Holmes.It seems insane, but if a club can get there, it is the Toulouse stadium.

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