Top 14: Stade Français knocks Racing 92 in Ile -de -France derby

The Stade Français offered himself the Christmas derby and with the way by winning 48 to 10, Saturday, during the closing match of the 13ᵉ day, the last of the first leg.

MO12345LEMONDE with AFP

The Stade Français offered himself the Christmas derby and with the way by going to beat Racing 48 to 10, Saturday December 24 in Nanterre, during the closing match of the 13 e day of the top 14, the last of the first leg.

With this resounding and improved success, the “pink soldiers” inflicted the first defeat of the season at home in Racing, which remained on six victories in his lair of the Arena.

The Stade Français thus ends the first place in second place in the ranking, 7 points behind Toulouse, the leader. Racing is also on the podium, but in third place, two lengths from his opponent of the day.

The men of Gonzalo Quesada, ultra-dominators in the engagement, marked five trials and only cashed. The magic boot of Joris Segonds, author of 21 points, has helped to increase an addition which risks weighing in the minds of Racing and his coach, Laurent Travers.

The first test of the match was marked by the third line and captain of the Stade Français, Romain Briatte, following a grouping near the Racing line. An essay transformed by Joris Segonds (23 e ). The second was the work of the Third Line Sekou Macalou, which intercepted a poorly guaranteed pass of the Scottish opener, Finn Russell, to spin on the test, still transformed always by Segonds (33 >).

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But just before half-time, Racing reduced the brand with an essay on the scrum half, Nolann Le Garrec, validated after viewing the video in order to check if Macalou had not touched the ground in the ground The in-goal before the “Racingman”. The test was transformed by Russell and the half-time was whistled on the score of 23-10 in favor of “stadists”.

In the second period, men in pink have pushed “racingmen” completely out of topic by scoring three new trials. The rear, Léo Barré, typed a candle that he managed to recover with a bit of success to go and register five new points (54 e ). Then, while the spirits had warmed up, with several scuffles, the winger Lester Etien resisted the return of three “racingmen” to mark in the corner (73 e ) the test of the offensive bonus .

The nightmare then continued for “Racingmen” Ko Standing, with a fifth and last test by the English winger, Paolo Odogwu, transformed by Barré (79 e ).

“Frankly it’s shameful, I have nothing else to say. The whole team has suffered, even the president and the staff. I don’t think we can do worse than that. I think that ‘We’re going to have a very good Christmas… “, ironically summed up Juan Imhoff, the winger of Racing 92, at the microphone of Canal+.

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for his part, Romain Briatte, the captain of the Stade Français, welcomed himself to have succeeded “a dream match”. “We were keen to redeem ourselves after the four defeats last season against Racing, continued the third line. We have an incredible group this year, we will continue to dream. The road is still long, we have two big receptions . “

For the first day of the return matches, next Saturday, Racing will go to Castres and the Stade Français will receive Pau.

/Media reports cited above.