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Montpellier and Racing 92 lead the way in the Top14
By Ben Spratt
Montpellier maintained their perfect start to the Top 14 season on Sunday, while Racing 92 moved to second in the table.
Early league leaders Montpellier were winners for the fourth game running as they saw off Toulon 43-20 at Alstrad Stadium – giving them a five-point cushion at the summit.
Aaron Cruden, Nemani Nadolo, Paul Willemse, Joseph Tomane and Francois Steyn scored the home side, who also benefited from a 65th-minute penalty try.
Toulon had led after seven minutes when Josua Tuisova went over, but only a second-half Chris Ashton try followed for the visitors after Francois Trinh-Duc's 47th minute penalty.
Earlier in the day, Racing had beaten Oyonnax 25-13 in Colombes.
Leone Nakarawa, Virimi Vakatawa and Marc Andreu all touched down before half-time, with penalties from Dan Carter and Maxime Machenaud completing their win.
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France got a typically french 14 point try last week and they'll need to look for chances for another couple to be comfortable in the win against Argentina.
Fiji could actually be the ones for upset of the week. Typically clunky with players always in and out of their team this would be about the time they put another England beating performance in against Ireland.
SA to be as strong again this week carrying away from their opposition. Probably an underpar performance though.
New Zealand will be determined to actually put the triple figure score on the Azzurri this time. In actual fact a tired and physically beaten AB side has been chosen for this one so expect to see some space and free flowing rugby from both teams but still nothing more than a 30 point gap between them.
Aussie will be thwarted by a draw in their Slam attempt, otherwise another 1 point game either way.
Lets hope Japan is selecting more of its stop starters like France's Tavita Tatafu's cousin, Tavita Tatafu, otherwise it could be the biggest scoreline game of the weekend.
Go to commentsBack then, Jen it was respect and tremendous rivalries even in provincials! Scores didn't seem to matter exactly! 🙃
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