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Lyon thump Benetton for maiden Champions Cup win

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07 Dec 2019

Lyon boss Pierre Mignoni (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Lyon secured their first-ever Heineken Champions Cup victory with a 28-0 home win over Benetton.

The French Top 14 side broke their Champions Cup duck at the ninth attempt and also registered a late bonus point.

Full-back Jean-Marcellin Buttin opened the scoring in the third minute and New Zealander Charlie Ngatai soon crossed for Jonathan Wisniewski to convert.

Wisniewski’s penalty put Lyon into a 15-0 lead before wing Xavier Mignot dotted down 12 minutes from half-time.

The Italian visitors were reduced to 14 men when replacement Marco Barbini was yellow carded and a Pato Fernandez penalty extended Lyon’s lead.

Lyon’s fourth try came five minutes from time when a driving line-out drew in the Benetton defence and replacement Liam Gill dived over in the corner.

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GG 9 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

What the hell was English rugby thinking by not having someone sing a decent NZ anthem. Pretty poor. Karma

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Bull Shark 9 minutes ago

England player ratings vs New Zealand | Autumn Nations Series 2024

The losing teams ratings are higher than the winning team?

Lots of 8s for a team with a 44% win ratio. When they eventually win again, we should see 11/10s.

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Longshanks 10 minutes ago

England player ratings vs New Zealand | Autumn Nations Series 2024

If you compare these to NZs ratings then England would have won easily

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NB 10 minutes ago

All Blacks player ratings vs England | Autumn Nations Series

Compare these to the England ratings and you'd think the ABs lost by 30. Every English player was apparently fantastic and nearly every All Black was rubbish? Jeez, wait till the All Blacks actually play well then, if you can't beat a bunch 4s and 5s out of 10 then there's no hope. But, this is Ben Smith we are talking about, he produces some of the worst rugby takes in media.

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SR 11 minutes ago

All Blacks player ratings vs England | Autumn Nations Series

If Jordie's so crap how come Ulster want him for 6 months?

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SadersMan 11 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

A beer for breakfast & another one for dessert. Well done All Blacks, ka mau te wehi.

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Tim 12 minutes ago

George Ford twice misses shot at glory as All Blacks edge England

England should have kept Marcus Smith on. He was running hot. Apart from the intercept try England didn't really look like scoring a try. NZ created far more opportunities, but they bombed almost all of them either by giving away penalties, pushing risky passes or knock-ons. Pretty frustrating. Their game management is also way below par.

Thought England got the rub of the green until about 60 mins when the ref started to level up the penalties.

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SR 12 minutes ago

All Blacks player ratings vs England | Autumn Nations Series

Do Ben Smith's initials also stand for BS? Hard to figure out how we managed to win that game if we all played so badly? Will Jordan 6.5? Really? AB's made plenty of mistakes some of which were due to great England pressure. Amua's throwing was faultless in the 1st half before being all over the place in the 2nd and he was great round the field so 6 is fair. But if it wasn't for an intercept England would have been try less. We scored 4 one was disallowed. So no, England should not have won that match. Borthwick should know by now you're unlikely to beat the AB's in 3

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SadersMan 12 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

He's not saying they can't do that. He's just calling them morons for doing it. It's called an "opinion". Deal with it. Or are you into mind control?

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SadersMan 15 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

Arithmetic matters kiddo.

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Bull Shark 15 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

Go fuck your self

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SadersMan 17 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

You need to forgive whoever hurt you man. Perpetual crybaby mode is not good.

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Spider 17 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

Remind me what was the score??

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Bull Shark 19 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

Calling people rude again SadersBoy?

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SC 20 minutes ago

George Ford twice misses shot at glory as All Blacks edge England

So, in short, All Blacks won.

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SadersMan 20 minutes ago

All Blacks player ratings vs England | Autumn Nations Series

Hard to argue with any of this. The biggest takeaway for me was we found a way to win & to win late. Early on we would've crumbled.

I suspect Razor will change up his team next year & Reiko & Jordie won't be the midfield. But for now, with 3 tests to go, it makes no sense to change v IRE & FRA.

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RedWarrior 20 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

"The Home Unions have only won SIXTEEN test matches out of a total tests played of 152 versus". NZ were blessed! Boasting after that scrape? But congratulations on your personal achievement. 😉

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Spider 20 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

Not very sports man like

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RedWarrior 22 minutes ago

'Furious': X erupts as England fans drown out haka with controversial rugby anthem

And I am saying the match is in England's House and he and you should show respect and manners. Can you point me to the rule/etiquette that the English spectators by singing their rugby song as response to the Haka?