REPLAY. Top 14: Stade Toulousain wins in Clermont, end of a long Auvergne drought for Toulouse! Relive the film of the match
20 years since the Haut-Garonnais had not won with the Jaunards in the Top 14. End of the wait this Sunday January 1, 2023 (14th day of Top 14). Toulouse arrived as a leader on the lawn of a not really dashing ASM.
It was May 5, 2002. A success acquired on the score of 19-16. It was the last time the Stade Toulousain rugby players left Clermont with a victory. Since then, they had never managed to repeat this performance in the Top 14 (the Toulousains had won their European quarter-final on April 11, 2021 (21-12)).
Was this Sunday, January 1, 2023 going to be the right day to end these twenty years of food shortage? The two teams meet at the Marcel-Michelin stadium, at the end of the 14th day of Top 14.
And if the “Rouge et Noir” thought that this year could be the right one, it was because the dynamics of the two teams were very different: the Toulousains arrived in Auvergne first in the standings (44 points) and remained on four successes. in a row in all competitions.
The Clermontois were 11th (27 points) and had lost their last two meetings, notably on Friday December 23 at the poorly ranked Brive (20-16).