French Top 14 , 7 March 2009, 16:30 local, 15:30 GMT
Biarritz (9) 18 - 14 (7) Clermont Auvergne (FT)

Timeline

Time Biarritz  Score  Clermont Auvergne
0 start of first half start of first half
6 Yachvili - penalty goal 3 - 0
16 Yachvili - penalty goal 6 - 0
29 6 - 5 Senio - try
30 6 - 7 James - conversion
40+1 Yachvili - penalty goal
end of first half		 9 - 7 end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
45 9 - 12 Senio - try
46 9 - 14 James - conversion
Domingo - sub on
Debaty - sub off
49 Yachvili - penalty goal 12 - 14 Pierre - yellow card
50 Hall - sub on
Lund - sub on
Vahafolau - sub off
Carizza - sub off
54 Traille - drop goal 15 - 14
57 Courrent - sub on
Bolakoro - sub off		 Debaty - sub on
Scelzo - sub off
60 Yachvili - penalty goal 18 - 14
61 Coetzee - sub on
Barcella - sub off
64 Samson - sub on
Radosavljevic - sub on
Senio - sub off
Privat - sub off
69 Garcia - sub on
Canale - sub off
72 Noirot - sub on
August - sub off
76 Audebert - sub on
Vermeulen - sub off
80 end of second half end of second half
80 start of half start of half

Notes

 
Result Biarritz won by a margin of 4 points

Teams

Biarritz Clermont Auvergne
Tries none Tries Senio (29, 45)
Cons none Cons James (30, 46)
Pens Yachvili (6, 16, 40, 49, 60) Pens none
Drops Traille (54) Drops none
    Team
15 FB
Nicolas Brusque
14 W
Philippe Bidabe
13 C
Laurent Tranier
12 C
Damien Traille
11 W
Ilikena Bolakoro
10 FH
Julien Peyrelongue
9 SH
Dimitri Yachvili
1 P
Fabien Barcella
2 H
Benoit August
3 P
Benoit Bourrust
4 L
Jerome Thion
5 L
Manuel Carizza
6 F
Samiu Vahafolau
7 F
Imanol Harinordoquy
8 N8
Jacques Cronje
    Replacements
16 R
Benjamin Noirot
17 R
Eduard Coetzee
18 R
Trevor Hall
19
Pierre Som
20 R
Magnus Lund
21
Fabien Cibray
22 R
Valentin Courrent
    Team
15 FB
Anthony Floch
14 W
Aurelien Rougerie
13 C
Gonzalo Canale
12 C
Seremaia Baikeinuku
11 W
Brent Russell
10 FH
Brock James
9 SH
John Senio
1 P
Vincent Debaty
2 H
Mario Ledesma Arocena
3 P
Martin Scelzo
4 L
Julien Pierre
49
5 L
Thibault Privat
6 F
Julien Bonnaire
7 F
Alexandre Lapandry
8 N8
Elvis Vermeulen
    Replacements
16
Mirko Lozupone
17 R
Thomas Domingo
18 R
Christophe Samson
19 R
Alexandre Audebert
20 R
Ludovic Radosavljevic
21 R
Pierre-Emmanuel Garcia
22
Wesley Fofana

Match stats

Biarritz   Clermont Auvergne
0 Tries 2
0 from 0 Conversion goals 2 from 2
5 from 7 Penalty goals 0 from 0
71.4% Kick at goal success 100.0%
1 (1 missed) Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
43 Kicks from hand 41
176 Passes 123
129 Runs 110
571 Metres run with ball 479
Attacking
8 Clean breaks 6
16 Defenders beaten 8
15 Offloads 13
84 from 89 (94.4%) Rucks won 64 from 72 (88.9%)
0 from 0 Mauls won 0 from 0
17 Turnovers conceded 17
Defensive
129/7 Tackles made/missed 164/16
94.8% Tackling success rate 91.1%
Set pieces
11 won, 1 lost (91.7%) Scrums on own feed 7 won, 3 lost (70.0%)
9 won, 1 lost (90.0%) Lineouts on own throw 13 won, 3 lost (81.2%)
Discipline
8 Penalties conceded 10
0/0 Yellow/red cards 1/0

Biarr stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Brusque 0/0 0 7/8/12 81 0 2 0 1 3/0 0/0 1 0/0
W Bidabe 0/0 0 0/8/8 50 1 1 0 1 6/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Tranier 0/0 0 0/2/11 51 1 2 1 2 10/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Traille 0/0 3 16/16/15 80 0 0 2 3 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Bolakoro 0/0 0 0/1/5 58 2 1 1 0 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Peyrelongue 0/0 0 5/28/7 50 0 4 0 0 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Yachvili 0/0 15 13/72/7 25 0 1 2 2 7/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Barcella 0/0 0 0/1/8 36 1 1 1 0 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
H August 0/0 0 0/3/4 3 0 0 1 0 7/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Bourrust 0/0 0 0/4/4 5 0 0 1 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Thion 0/0 0 0/0/7 9 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 2 0/0
L Carizza 0/0 0 0/4/5 3 1 0 1 1 7/1 1/0 0 0/0
F Vahafolau 0/0 0 0/5/7 12 0 0 1 1 4/2 0/1 0 0/0
F Harinordoquy 0/0 0 0/5/14 36 2 3 3 3 9/0 6/1 1 0/0
N8 Cronje 0/0 0 1/12/9 40 0 1 2 1 9/1 2/0 0 0/0
(R) Noirot 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Coetzee 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 1 9/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Hall 0/0 0 0/1/2 15 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Lund 0/0 0 0/1/2 3 0 0 0 1 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Courrent 0/0 0 1/0/2 14 0 0 2 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Clerm stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Floch 0/0 0 12/6/12 94 0 1 1 0 2/0 2/0 0 0/0
W Rougerie 0/0 0 3/2/10 38 0 1 2 3 10/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Canale 0/1 0 0/5/6 29 1 0 2 2 8/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Baikeinuku 0/0 0 0/7/2 2 0 0 0 0 12/1 0/0 1 0/0
W Russell 0/0 0 4/2/11 137 2 5 5 3 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
FH James 0/0 4 17/30/7 32 0 0 0 1 14/1 1/0 0 0/0
SH Senio 2/0 10 3/35/7 41 2 1 0 0 8/4 1/0 1 0/0
P Debaty 0/0 0 0/0/8 13 0 0 3 1 8/1 0/0 0 0/0
H Ledesma Arocena 0/0 0 0/0/6 7 0 0 1 1 8/0 0/0 1 0/0
P Scelzo 0/0 0 0/0/4 23 0 0 0 2 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Pierre 0/0 0 0/2/6 6 1 0 0 1 9/2 3/0 1 1/0
L Privat 0/0 0 0/0/3 12 0 0 0 1 6/1 0/0 1 0/0
F Bonnaire 0/0 0 0/2/2 10 0 0 1 0 21/1 4/0 1 0/0
F Lapandry 0/0 0 0/0/2 9 0 0 1 0 16/1 0/0 0 0/0
N8 Vermeulen 0/0 0 1/5/10 11 0 0 0 1 9/3 0/0 1 0/0
(R) Domingo 0/0 0 0/1/5 9 0 0 0 0 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Samson 0/0 0 0/0/3 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 1/0 0 0/0
(R) Audebert 0/0 0 0/0/2 1 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Radosavljevic 0/0 0 1/23/4 5 0 0 0 0 0/0 1/0 0 0/0
(R) Garcia 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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