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FRENCH TOP 14 RUGBY FINAL

TOULON v RACING 92 .... Kicks off in a few minutes! :-D

Watch Leigh Halfpenny performing his magic for his club in the final! <3

THE FRENCH TOP 14 CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL

THE TEAMS

TOULON

Backs:
15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Josua Tuisova, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Maxime Mermoz, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Matt Giteau, 9 Jonathan Pélissié;

Forwards:
1 Xavier Chiocci, 2 Guilhem Guirado (c), Levan Chilachava, 4 Samu Manoa, 5 Konstantin Mikautadze, 6 Mamuka Gorgodze, 7 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 8 Steffon Armitage.

Replacements: 16 Jean Charles Orioli, 17 Florian Fresia, 18 Romain Taofiféuna, 19 Virgile Bruni, 20 Théo Belan, 21 Delon Armitage, 22 Frédéric Michalak, 23 Manusa Saulo

RACING 92:

Backs:
15 Brice Dulin, 14 Joe Rokocoko, 13 Johan Goosen, 12 Henry Chavancy, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Maxime Machenaud;

Forwards:
1 Eddy Ben Arous, 2 Dimitri Szarzewski (c), 3 Benjamin Tameifuna, 4 Bernard le Roux, 5 Manuel Carizza, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 7 Yannick Nyanga, 8 Chris Masoe.

Replacements: 16 Camille Chat, Khatchik Vartanov, 18 Juandré Kruger, 19 Antoine Claassen, 20 Xavier Chauveau, 21 Marc Andreu, 22 Albert Vulivuli, 23 Luc Ducalcon

The teams are coming out!

Toulon v Racing 92 in another meeting of giants!
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Many of these players play together, or have played against each other, at international level.

Captain Guilhem Guirado leads out his team Toulon

Racing 92's Captain is Dimitri Szarzewsk

Toulon will be missing former All Black Ma'a Nonu tonight.

Nonu was injured in last week's Semi Final.

Former Wales International Mike Phillips has not been chosen for his Club, Racing 92 tonight :-(

I support each of these teams against other clubs, but tonight I am with TOULON!

Wearing my Leigh Halfpenny T Shirt for the occasion:-D

GO THE HALFPENNY <3

Toulon is in Red, Racing is in Blue and White

NO FRENCH ANTHEM .... LA MARSEILLAISE

They are going straight into the game.

Australian Matt Giteau kicks off for Toulon

Penalty Toulon

Racing 1 not rolling away

AND ALREADY HERE'S LEIGH <3 :-D :-D :-D

YES YES YES .... STRAIGHT AND TRUE!

TOULON 3 ~ RACING 92 0

Here's Our Leigh in another Toulon game

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RACING IN POSSESSION NOW AND THEY GET A PENALTY

Dan Carter is going for distance and not a pen goal attempt.

Lineout at 22m

Captain Dimitri Szarzewski throws in at lineout

Thrown and a run by racing

They knock on and Toulon are on the attack now

They were away and a Toulon man drops it.

Pen Racing .... illegal play by Toulon

DAN CARTER FOR THE PENALTY GOAL ATTEMPT

Now normally I would be shouting GO DAN, but of course not tonight!
His Counterpart is Leigh Halfpenny... say no more!

HE GETS THE GOAL


TOULON 3 ~ RACING 92 3

Advantage Toulon from a Racing drive that collapsed.

Scrum Toulon

Toulon are away!

Big BOY 13 Mathieu Bastareaud STORMING!


TOULON LINEOUT

caught down and driving

still pushing forward

PEN RACING 92

Toulon's Armitage did not release

Leigh catches the high ball

ooooooo Matt Giteau threw the ball way over Habana's head! :-0

Racing get a throw in and are on the attack

LOOKING DANGEROUS NOW!

Great turn over by Toulon, but didn't find touch so now Racing is coming back at them

Huge tackle by Racing and Toulon knock on

SCRUM RACING

PEN TOULON

Giteau kicks for touch.

He succeeds, so lineout Toulon

caught and Toulon 9 trying to keep on his feet in a tackle.

Toulon in possession

Bastareaud huge storming

OOOOOO MATT GITEAU HAS HAD A TIP TACKLE ON HIS HEAD! :-0 :-0 :-0
By Maxime Machenaud I think!:-| :-|

SOOOO DANGEROUS, COULD BREAK SOMEONES NECK!

It's not looking good:-(

Going to TMO :-D

IT WILL BE A CARD... BUT WHICH COLOUR!

OFF! AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED!

Even though I like Machenaud!

RED CARD!

MAXIME MACHENAUD IS OFF FOR THE DURATION!

RIGHT CALL!


Racing 92 will play the rest of the game with just 14 players.