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Racing climb above Toulon in thriller
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Racing 92 beat Toulon 40-29 to climb above their hosts in the Top 14 table, the two sides scoring four tries apiece in a thriller at Stade Mayol.
Toulon were sixth heading into Sunday's fixture - a point ahead of their visitors - but were quickly on the back foot as a Brice Dulin try helped open up a 10-0 lead for Racing.
The home side rallied to touch down twice before the interval and took a 14-10 lead into half-time, with Chris Ashton and JP Pietersen going over early in the second period to extend that advantage to 26-16.
However, Racing piled on the points via the boot of Pat Lambie and tries from Marc Andreu and Yannick Nyanga, storming ahead on the hour mark.
A Louis Carbonel penalty pulled Toulon back within four but Louis Dupichot crossed at the death to put the match to bed, with Lambie's conversion taking his personal tally to 20.
The result sees Racing climb to fourth, while Toulon's second successive defeat drops them to eighth.
In the day's other fixture, Stade Francais survived a spirited comeback at home to basement club Oyonnax to emerge with a narrow 39-35 victory.
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Still hiding behind an extremely soft schedule. Why they so scared?
Go to commentsThat's crazy not to understand something as simple as this. The summer tours scheduled by World Rugby coincide with the finales of the Top 14, which means that the best French players are playing the most important matches of their year at that time. It's not a matter of being afraid or uncomfortable with the idea of playing away from French territory, but it's just not the players' priority to go play friendly matches on the other side of the world at that time of the year. Organize international matches wherever you want in October, and you'll see that we'll send our A team. It's not because the southerners keep repeating the idea that we are afraid that we will eventually send the A team next June. As long as the summer tour takes place in June, France WILL NOT send its A team.
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