The game: 25-26

Shock at the top, there too, after a rather disappointing La Rochelle-Montpellier in terms of the game the day before, this confrontation between enemy neighbors held the public (33,000 spectators) spellbound on Sunday evening in Chaban-Delmas. Until the end, the outcome was uncertain, the very engaged debates and a few flashes of genius, signed Holmes and Tambwe on the Girondin side, Roumat and Ntamack for the Toulouse team, gave relief to this beautiful closing match of the first day.

After paying with two sanctions signed Thomas Ramos (4th, 15th) for his sluggish start to the match, the UBB was able to react in a good way, seeing a lot of play, in particular millimeter passes in the right timing, sweeping the Toulousains in eleven minutes, enough time to score three magnificent tries. The first by Rémi Lamerat at the end of the wing, jostling the last three defenders (23rd). Then it was the Tambwe moment, this dazzling South African winger of Congolese origin who planted a double at full speed for his debut (28th, 34th).

Overwhelmed and led 22-9, the Toulouse continued to suffer this meeting without managing to control their possessions by conquering and developing their movement game. Unable until then to register the slightest try, they ended up letting go completely and in a very spectacular way: framing-overflow and chistera of Alexandre Roumat to shift Matthis Lebel (56th), then feat of Romain Ntamack erasing five defenders in a pocket handkerchief (60th). With these two flash tries, Toulouse then took the lead in the score (23-23), a gap which remained as it was after an exchange of goals (Matthieu Jalibert in the 62nd, Melvyn Jaminet in the 67th).

In an uncertain and breathless end to the match, the Girondins had three chances to win, Matthieu Jalibert (70th, 75th) and Maxime Lucu (78th) missing the posts while the Toulousains evolved to fourteen following the red card returned by flanker Alban Placines for a blow to the face of Bordelais Antoine Miquel, an inconsiderate gesture which could have cost the Toulouse, pugnacious and reactive, a victory which they had been able to build for half an hour in the second half.

The player: Tambwe launched like a rocket

For his Top 14 debut, the athletic Congolese winger (24 years old, 1.86m) confirmed that he was indeed an authentic test hunter noticed in Super Rugby and the Currie Cup with the Natal Sharks and the Blue Bulls . Particularly swift, he scored twice against Toulouse. By rebounding a kick to follow from Romain Buros before eliminating three Toulousains with a hook (28th), then by registering the second (34th) with a staggering acceleration in the open field. The referee, after video analysis, refuses him a triple (65th) for forward.