Bielle-Biarrey double lifts Bordeaux previous champions Toulouse and into Champions Cup ultimate

In Cardiff on Might 24, they’ll face English aspect Northampton who shocked favourites Leinster on Saturday.

Bielle-Biarrey, who scored eight tries in the course of the Six Nations to assist France to the championship, struck both aspect of half-time on the Stade Matmut to tee up Bordeaux to their first ever Champions Cup ultimate.

No.8 Pete Samu scored the opening strive for Bordeaux with substitute lock Pierre Bochaton and prop Ben Tameifuna going over within the second half.

Dimitri Delibes and Pierre-Louis Barassi crossed for Toulouse however they have been at all times struggling to stick with the tempo.

It was a highly-anticipated conflict between the 2 main sides in France’s Prime 14.

They have been in the identical Champions Cup pool, though they didn’t play one another, and each emerged unbeaten. Bordeaux took prime spot, and duly claimed residence benefit, by advantage of the bonus level that Toulouse did not register in opposition to Durban-based Sharks.

The six-time champions, who beat Leinster in final 12 months’s ultimate, went into the sport underpowered with worldwide quartet Antoine Dupont, Thomas Ramos, Peato Mauvaka and Blair Kinghorn all out injured.

They have been quickly behind when Bordeaux fly-half Matthieu Jalibert launched a counter-attack from a turnover within the fifth minute. He flew 50 metres upfield earlier than offloading for Samu to gallop by means of for the rating.

Jalibert transformed and added a penalty earlier than Argentinian full-back Juan Cruz Mallia put Toulouse on the board with a penalty.

After quarter-hour, wing Delibes went over in the precise hand nook to convey Toulouse inside two factors. Mallia missed the conversion however popped over a penalty to place Toulouse forward for the primary, and solely time, within the match.

It solely lasted one minute earlier than Bielle-Biarrey benefitted from some excellent work by Romain Buros and Damian Penaud to skate by means of within the left-hand nook.

France’s document try-scorer Penaud later hobbled off with an injured left ankle.

Scrum-half Maxime Lucu landed an outrageous 58-metre penalty to place Bordeaux 18-10 forward at half-time and inside moments of the restart, Bielle-Biarrey struck a second time to present the house aspect a agency grip on the sport.

Barassi gave Toulouse a foothold with a strive within the fifty fifth minute however late efforts from shut vary from forwards Bochaton and Tameifuna underlined Bordeaux’s dominance and sealed their place within the ultimate.

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