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Top 14 : le bilan de la phase aller du championnat

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Les Toulousains Paul Graou, Richie Arnold et Thomas Ramos peuvent sourire : ils ont achevé la phase aller du Top 14 en tête, avec le meilleur total de points à mi-saison depuis cinq ans. (Photo by SYLVAIN THOMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Toulouse brillant, l’Union Bordeaux-Bègles sur ses talons, Vannes à la traîne, les clubs franciliens sans souffle… Gloires et déboires du Top 14 à l’issue de la phase aller du championnat.

Le leader

Toulouse. Qui d’autre ? Avec 46 points, les ‘rouge et noir’ réalisent la meilleure phase aller depuis cinq ans. Le tout en se passant l’essentiel du temps de leur superstar Antoine Dupont, qui n’a joué que trois matchs en Top 14 depuis son titre olympique à VII cet été.

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Les doubles champions de France en titre sont l’équipe qui a marqué le plus de points et celle qui en a encaissé le moins. Seule ombre au tableau : une défaite à domicile contre l’Union Bordeaux-Bègles en septembre, brisant une invincibilité de 18 mois à domicile.

L’UBB, finaliste la saison passée, est d’ailleurs la seule équipe à tenir le rythme, avec un point de moins. Le troisième, Toulon, est déjà à huit points du leader.

Le joueur

Sireli Maqala. Enfin épargné par les blessures qui ont plombé sa saison dernière, le centre fidjien de 24 ans donne la pleine mesure de son talent à Bayonne, où son association avec le puissant Manu Tuilagi cause des ravages dans les défenses adverses.

Meilleur marqueur du Top 14 avec 10 essais en 11 matchs, Maqala n’est resté muet que trois fois cette saison, et est pour beaucoup dans la bonne phase aller de Bayonne, surprenant quatrième.

Le zéro pointé

En sept déplacements, le Stade Français n’a pas gagné un seul point à l’extérieur, pire résultat du championnat. Avec 240 points encaissés loin de ses bases – seul le promu vannetais fait pire – le club parisien prend l’eau lorsqu’il se déplace, et la différence avec la saison passée, qu’il avait terminée en tant que meilleure équipe à l’extérieur, est saisissante.

Et comme les Soldats roses n’ont pas fait le plein à Jean-Bouin, avec notamment une défaite contre Toulon, la deuxième meilleure équipe de la saison régulière la saison passée flotte toujours à un point de la place de barragiste.

La perf’

La victoire de Vannes à La Rochelle lors de la onzième journée. Peu de monde voyait Vannes venir mater les Rochelais sur leurs terres. Menés 14 à 7 peu après la mi-temps, les Bretons ont fait parler leur courage pour renverser les champions d’Europe 2022 et 2023 avec une victoire 23-14.

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Ces quatre points comptent beaucoup pour les promus, qui n’en totalisent que quinze à mi-saison, avec seulement trois victoires, à sept points du LOU. Pour les Vannetais, le championnat est cependant loin d’être le long chemin de croix qu’avait connu Agen en 2020-2021, avec deux points seulement à mi-parcours.

Les stats

Du jeu ! Sur la lancée des dernières années, les équipes du Top 14 marquent de plus en plus d’essais et de points : en moyenne, 49,3 points par match et 5,7 essais. Un total porté par le leader toulousain (385 points, 48 essais) et son dauphin l’UBB (384 points, 50 essais), mais aussi par de meilleurs terrains et un arbitrage davantage tourné vers le jeu. Mais gare à l’hiver : les trois dernières journées ont fait significativement baisser la moyenne, avec seulement 37,9 points par rencontre.

Tout comme les essais, les cartons jaunes fleurissent (168, contre 259 pour toute la saison dernière). La palme revient au Racing 92, dont les joueurs ont été exclus à vingt reprises pendant dix minutes. Les Franciliens ont donc joué l’équivalent de cinq matchs avec un joueur de moins sur la pelouse.

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Le joueur le plus sanctionné est également un Racingman : le deuxième ou troisième ligne international Cameron Woki, qui a reçu trois cartons jaunes, ainsi qu’un rouge en toute fin de match à Pau.


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Would you have beaten Ireland and France in a quarter in 2023? NZ absolutely hammered you right?


I honestly don’t know what your issue is. Ireland get on very well with Argentinians. You seem to be a boaster and sychohant for Saffers and Kiwis. Weird. Have you any thoughts of your own?


Its a long time since Argentina beat Ireland. 2015? That was the year NZ-Arg played in pool match 1. And France and Ireland were scheduled to play eachother 6 days before the QF. Winner gets Argentina, loser gets NZ.

No offense Carlos but France and Ireland beat the sh1te out of each other to avoid playing NZ. The match was brutal. Ireland lost Sexton, O’Brien, O’Connell (career ending injury), O’Mahony, Payne versus France.


Argentina recorded their biggest ever win against Ireland and New Zealand recorded their biggest ever win against France. Fra/Irl conceded 106 points in those quarters.

Even still Ireland fought back and couldn’t score the try to kick on and win.

Were you even old enough to watch that one.


How did Ireland and France get that brutal scheduling?


Well, those in charge of scheduling were ITV, the English RU and the NZRU. So Argentina benefitted directly from corrupt scheduling. Its not only Ireland and France who were hurt: SA were winning in the 3rd quarter versus NZ against 14 men in the semi. NZ scored in that period to win a tight match. If they get an honest test against a rested French team they probably dont win that semi.


Comparing World rankings to actual finishing place, the biggest Tier1 chokers by far in the history of RWC is NZ themselves…and two of those RWCs were at home.

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