{"id":396163,"date":"2026-04-13T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396163\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:59:09","slug":"bordeaux-beat-toulouse-to-reach-champions-cup-semi-final-against-bath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396163\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux beat Toulouse to reach Champions Cup semi-final against Bath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champions Cup quarter-final: Bordeaux B\u00e8gles 30 Toulouse 15<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Reigning champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bordeaux-begles\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bordeaux-begles\/\">Bordeaux B\u00e8gles<\/a> battled past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/toulouse\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/toulouse\/\">Toulouse<\/a> to set up a semi-final against Bath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Toulouse, beaten by their French rivals in last year\u2019s semi-final, had made a strong start at Stade Chaban-Delmas, but Bordeaux\u2019s defence held firm before Maxime Lamothe powered over off a maul in the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/2026\/04\/11\/leinster-made-to-work-hard-for-champions-cup-quarter-final-win-over-sale-sharks\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leinster made to work hard for Champions Cup quarter-final win over Sale SharksOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The visitors made an instant reply from the restart when Yoram Moefana failed to catch the kick-off and fly-half Romain Ntamack eventually darted in on the right. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There was a stoppage late in the first half after Toulouse prop Dorian Aldegheri took out Damian Penaud as he kicked the ball on, making head contact with his shoulder. Following a TMO review, a 20-minute red card was given for the high danger challenge, with Penaud left needing a head injury assessment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Matthieu Jalibert scores Bordeaux&#x2019;s second try as team-mate Arthur Retiere takes a tumble. Photograph: James Crombie\/Inpho\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CR2YFREZ32W2GD5LLZMZKPVXBM.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"470\"\/>Matthieu Jalibert scores Bordeaux\u2019s second try as team-mate Arthur Retiere takes a tumble. Photograph: James Crombie\/Inpho <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Toulouse got themselves in front following a sweeping passing move across the line which sent winger Teddy Thomas racing clear down the right to take a 12-5 lead into the break. After Thomas Ramos had strengthened Toulouse\u2019s advantage with an early second-half penalty, Bordeaux rallied again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Matthieu Jalibert collected his own kick through just in from touch on the right before diving over. Toulouse were then briefly another player down when France scrumhalf Antoine Dupont was shown a yellow card in the 56th minute for a trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bordeaux took control of the quarter-final tie when Ben Tameifuna barged over and Maxime Lucu landed a long-range penalty just after the hour. Any hopes of a late comeback were ended with six minutes left when Arthur Retiere touched down Bordeaux\u2019s fourth try in the corner before Lucu slotted over another penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Champions Cup quarter-final results:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bath 43 Northampton 41<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Glasgow Warriors 19 Toulon 22<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Leinster 49 Edinburgh 31<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bordeaux B\u00e8gles 30 Toulouse 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champions Cup quarter-final: Bordeaux B\u00e8gles 30 Toulouse 15 Reigning champions Bordeaux B\u00e8gles battled past Toulouse to set up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[121813,32728,61,60,11287,6398,112,121812],"class_list":{"0":"post-396163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bordeaux-begles","9":"tag-champions-cup","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-leinster-rugby","13":"tag-match-report","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-toulouse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}