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Live blog: Rugby Europe Championship 2024 finals in Paris
By Liam Heagney
With the Guinness Six Nations having signed off on Saturday night in Lyon with a classic France versus England encounter, RugbyPass has relocated on Sunday morning by train to Paris for finals day in the Rugby Europe Championship.
For the first time, tournament organisers have decided to stage all the last-round matches at a single venue rather than at scattered locations across the continent and what is in store promises to be a real Test rugby treat.
It all kicks off at midday local time at Stade Jean Bouin, the home of the Top 14 club Stade Francais, with Poland contesting the seventh-place play-off with Belgium, who were 2024 first-round giant-killers when they impressively picked off Rugby World Cup surprise packet Portugal with an epic 10-6 upset at Mons.
Next on the schedule will be the 2:45pm meeting of neighbours Holland and Germany in the fifth-place play-off. It’s their second faceoff in four weeks as the Dutch won a final round Pool A match 39-13 in Amsterdam on February 18.
The bronze medal match at 6:15pm will feature Romania, a participant at the recent World Cup in France, clashing with Spain, who were unlucky not to reach the Rugby Europe final as they only narrowly lost out 30-33 to Portugal in their semi-final in Lisbon two weeks ago.
Finals day then culminates at 9pm with the latest instalment in the increasingly fierce rivalry that is Georgia and Portugal, a decider that can be watched live on RugbyPass TV (click here to stream).
The Portuguese came of age at France 2023, drawing 18-all with the Georgians in Toulouse before returning to the same city 15 days later to upset Fiji.
Georgia, who are now coached by ex-England assistant Richard Cockerill, go into the decider as the six-in-a-row champions and the collision is sure to be explosive.
Follow all the action as it unfolds in Paris on the RugbyPass live blog:
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