Challenge Cup: Lyon defeated Racing 92 and will play the final

In the Second semifinal of the Challenge Cupin the duel of French, Lyon It was superior and celebrated with all the 29-15 in view of Racing 92 To access the championship final, where the faces will be seen before the only leader of the Premiership, Bath. I lived the best of rugby in Disney+.

During the first 40 minutes of play there were not many lights, but both were constantly studied, prevailing the use of the foot, often unnecessary, and both well -fled defenses, so they had to go more than 20 minutes so that the tanter is just opened.

Within said framework, Lyonwho enjoyed the local, tried a little more than his rival, so he played more time in the opposite territory and had more connection and fluidity in his backs. Despite this, the first to score was Tristan Tedderthrough a penalty, for the visit. But he quickly responded LEO BERDEUwith the same medicine at 25 minutes, and very little later, in what was the most colorful play of the first half, Vincent Rattez He arrived at the desire and Berdeu converted for the hosts to enjoy a partial advantage of 10-3.

After that, the Parisian cast glimpsed a reaction and began to be more protagonist, appealing to the precision and great use of the foot by the opening Give lancasterand then press in each of the exits. Thus they slowly inclined the field, until Diego Escobar He efficiently executed a line close to Ingoal, and then being the oval carrier in the subsequent Maul who finished beating Lyon’s defense, so the Chilean shortened the gap to just two units, with which they would end up going to rest.

The complement began with the homeowners being protagonists, with the clear intention of imposing conditions to become the second finalist. This position had its prize at 10 minutes, when Beka Saghinadze sentenced a good line-maul sequence, which would be converted again by Berdeu so that those in red enjoy a good partial advantage of 20 to 8. But when everything indicated an takeoff in the game and in the score by the hosts, those of Paris responded with a lethal comptrol, invoiced by the admitted Kléo Labarbe.

The last 20 minutes of the game were a tracing of what they showed at the beginning of the lawsuit, where the lights were missing again and neither seemed to have the physical rest to completely overcome their rival. In this tonic, it was again the homeowners who clung to their defense to contain the few attacks that managed to put together the ones led by Patrice Collazothat they did not have in any passage of the meeting fluidity in the assembly of their attack, so they could not suspend him at the end of the party.

In this way, the cast led by Karim Ghezal He won his ticket to the Great end of Cardiffcompared to nothing more and nothing less than Bathof great season in Englandin it Mainity Stadiumthat will dress at the gala on Friday, May 23 from 4 pm.