TOP 14 – The La Rochelle stadium as a good student, a dangerous away game for Castres who has never won over Jean-Bouin, many changes between the Bayonnais, Maxime Baudonne continues with Racing 92… Here are all the figures to know before the 15th day of the championship.
5: La Rochelle, disciplined student
A status that could weigh heavily in this tantalizing clash of Stadia which – since 2020 and the beginning of a rivalry at the top – has often turned into game facts. At mid-season, La Rochelle are the least sanctioned team in the division: five cards, of which a red one received… in the first leg, at the Ernest-Wallon! Winner of the last two away matches against Deflandre (11-14 and 16-20), Toulouse had scored the decisive tries in numerical superiority. Just like in the 2021 European Cup final.
0: the number of CO wins to Jean-Bouin
It’s very simple, Olympic Castres has never managed to win against the French stadium on their turf, this shows the extent of the challenge that awaits Pierre-Henry Broncan’s men on Saturday at the Jean-Bouin.
6: Rank losses by RCT
Since 19 September 2014, and the great success of Bernard Laporte’s Galactics (13-53), Corrèze has become a hostile land for Toulon. And often a cruel scenario was repeated due to the extent of the thrush: 29-26 in 2015, 15-5 in 2017, 13-12 in 2018, 25-23 in 2021. So watch out for the last minutes for spectators and viewers because often they were a source of twists and turns in Brive – Toulon.
8: Changes in the Bayonne XV
Grégory Patat, who had planned to rotate his squad after the match against Toulon, made eight changes to the starting XV. Acquire, Tatafu, Leindekar, Mikautadze, Cridge, Machenaud, Buliruarua and Morahan start the game.
4: We can’t stop Baudonne
On Saturday, in Castres (26-26), the young number 8 of Racing 92 Maxime Baudonne (20 years old) started for the fourth time this season and the least we can say is that the “gold helmet” trained in Courbevoie he shone again: in all the good pitches, he was also at the end of a magnificent test, his third!
