Magnificent Montpellier retain Top 14 lead with Racing thrashing
Top 14 leaders Montpellier bounced back from their shock defeat to Agen in style on Saturday with a 41-3 trouncing of second-placed Racing 92.
Jan Serfontein ran in two tries, while Nico Janse van Rensburg, Timoci Nagusa and Louis Picamoles all crossed in the second half as Vern Cotter's men cantered past their nearest rivals and made it 10 league wins from 10 on home soil this term.
The only negative for Montpellier came when Nagusa suffered an apparent knee injury in the act of scoring his side's fourth try.
Racing would have replaced their opponents as Top 14 leaders with a victory at Altrad Stadium, but the visitors were ultimately outclassed.
A moment of magic from Serfontein produced the only touchdown of the first half, the South Africa centre skilfully chipping over the top of the Racing defence before collecting his own kick to score.
Montpellier led 13-3 at the interval, Ruan Pienaar adding a conversion and two penalties prior to a solitary three-pointer from Pat Lambie, before effectively wrapping up victory with two tries in the first five minutes of the second period.
Martin Devergie's superb offload sent Janse van Rensburg clear down the right wing and Serfontein crashed over from first receiver, with Pienaar converting both touchdowns.
Racing were unable to hit back even when home prop Jannie du Plessis was yellow-carded and late tries from Nagusa and Louis Picamoles rounded off a superb afternoon for Montpellier.
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Hmmmm….not so sure about Edinburgh!
Go to commentsDisastrous result for conaught almost an impossible task to make top 8 now
The fixture may have been overly friendly recently, and connaught appeared to be a bit unstuck by the venom and vitriol from Ulster. Doak had an amzing game shooting out with perfect timing to disrupt onnaught on every attacking phase. On paper connaught should have had this. Well done to Ulster. connaught were suckered a bit.
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