Toulouse wins against Racing with the bonus.
The thesis of the accident is validated: beaten in Pau without a fight last week, Toulouse resumed its march forward against Racing 92 (37-10) on Saturday during the 4th day of the Top 14 thanks in particular to the first test of a very stirring Capuozzo Angel.
The Toulousains, in a rather unusual exercise of contrition at home, had admitted with one voice during the week that they had sinned by excess of confidence in Béarn (26-16 defeat).
Their opponent’s pedigree this time kept them on their toes and Antoine Dupont’s teammates put together the necessary ingredients to sign, with an attacking bonus, a third success in four matches.
Enough to take over, temporarily and in one breath, the reins of the classification from defending champion Montpellier – whom they will face next week
— pending the trip from La Rochelle to Clermont on Sunday at the end of this 4th day.
Racing, very shy in the second half, continues a second setback far from its bases after being surprised at promoted Bayonne two weeks ago.
The Hauts-de-Seine club fell on stronger than him against Stade Toulousain, who, even if he still sometimes lacks fluidity in his attacking game at the start of the season, gave at times a good idea of its potential.
It was however in force, with their Australian bulldozer Emmanuel Meafou, that the five-time European champions scored the first of their four tries of the evening, thanks to a school combination on a player in hand near the line in-goal.
A third try in three games for the gigantic second team of France, which dreams of France, joined a few minutes later at the top of the top scorers of the Top 14 by his teammate Matthis Lebel.
The young international winger, carried away at first by his momentum, still managed to flatten, in pieces, a ball played with the foot by Thomas Ramos, again aligned at the opening in the absence of Romain Ntamack and in success against the poles (6 out of 7).
On the ropes (17-0, 32), Racing briefly regained hope thanks to a try from Donovan Taofifenua just before half-time after a failed interception from Melvyn Jaminet.
But another Toulouse rookie, the Italian international fullback Ange Capuozzo, killed all suspense with an interception that rewarded his great debauchery of activity and his fire support, before Sofiane Guitoune scored the try at the end of the match. bonus on a perfect launch.
The reaction of Laurent Thuéry the Toulouse defense coach to the microphone 100% of our journalist Gilles Gauthier.