Heineken Cup , Pool 2 - Colombes, 11 November 2011, 21:00 local, 20:00 GMT
Racing Metro (14) 20 - 26 (17) Cardiff Blues (FT)

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Timeline

Time Racing Metro  Score  Cardiff Blues
0 start of first half start of first half
2 Down - sub off
Tito - sub on
4 Germain - penalty goal 3 - 0
7 Hernandez - drop goal 6 - 0
12 6 - 5 Filise - try
13 6 - 7 Parks - conversion
14 Roberts - sub off
Evans - sub on
15 Germain - penalty goal 9 - 7
17 9 - 10 Parks - penalty goal
30 Imhoff - try 14 - 10
36 14 - 15 Cuthbert - try
38 14 - 17 Parks - conversion
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
45 Ghezal - sub off
Wisniewski - sub on
Nallet - sub on
Estebanez - sub off
53 14 - 20 Parks - penalty goal
55 Germain - penalty goal
Loree - sub off
Durand - sub on
Orlandi - sub off
Coetzee - sub on		 17 - 20
58 17 - 23 Parks - penalty goal
64 Chavancy - sub off
Vakatawa - sub on
68 17 - 26 Parks - penalty goal
69 Lo Cicero Vaina - sub off
Ben Arous - sub on
Germain - penalty goal		 20 - 26
70 Vaquin - sub on
Leo'o - sub off		 Pretorius - sub on
Rush - sub off
72 Laulala - sub off
Sweeney - sub on
73 Andrews - sub on
Filise - sub off
80 end of second half
end of half		 end of second half
end of half
0
80

Notes

 
Result Cardiff Blues won by a margin of 6 points
 
Ground name Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris

Teams

Racing Metro Cardiff Blues
Tries Imhoff (30) Tries Filise (12), Cuthbert (36)
Cons none Cons Parks (13, 38)
Pens Germain (4, 15, 55, 69) Pens Parks (17, 53, 58, 68)
Drops Hernandez (7) Drops none
    Team
15 FB
Gaetan Germain
14 W
Sireli Bobo
13 C
Henry Chavancy
12 C
Fabrice Estebanez
11 W
Juan Imhoff
10 FH
Juan Martin Hernandez
9 SH
Mathieu Loree
1 P
Andrea Lo Cicero Vaina
2 H
Benjamin Noirot
3 P
Juan Pablo Orlandi
4 L
Karim Ghezal
5 L
Jone Qovu Nailiko
6 F
Johnny Leo'o
7 F
Antoine Battut
8 N8
Jacques Cronje
    Replacements
16
Thomas Bianchin
17 R
Eddy Ben Arous
18 R
Aranos Coetzee
19 R
Lionel Nallet
20 R
Nicolas Durand
21 R
Jonathan Wisniewski
22 R
Virimi Vakatawa
23 R
Remy Vaquin
    Team
15 FB
Chris Czekaj
14 W
Alex Cuthbert
13 C
Casey Laulala
12 C
Jamie Roberts
11 W
Tom James
10 FH
Dan Parks
9 SH
Lloyd Williams
1 P
Gethin Jenkins
2 H
T.Rhys Thomas
3 P
Taufa'ao Filise
4 L
Bradley Davies
5 L
James Down
6 F
Michael Paterson
7 F
Sam Warburton
8 N8
Xavier Rush
    Replacements
16
Marc Breeze
17
John Yapp
18 R
Scott Andrews
19 R
Paul Tito
20 R
Andries Pretorius
21
Richie Rees
22 R
Ceri Sweeney
23 R
Gavin Evans

Match stats

Racing Metro   Cardiff Blues
1 Tries 2
0 from 1 Conversion goals 2 from 2
4 from 5 Penalty goals 4 from 5
67.0% Kick at goal success 86.0%
1 (1 missed) Dropped goals 0 (3 missed)
Kick/pass/run
30 Kicks from hand 28
98 Passes 126
64 Runs 87
220 Metres run with ball 351
Attacking
49% (55%/44%) Possession (1H/2H) 51% (45%/56%)
43% (52%/33%) Territory (1H/2H) 57% (48%/67%)
3 Clean breaks 3
8 Defenders beaten 12
7 Offloads 9
52 from 58 (89.7%) Rucks won 64 from 69 (92.8%)
5 from 6 (83.3%) Mauls won 2 from 2 (100.0%)
17 Turnovers conceded 14
Defensive
78/12 Tackles made/missed 65/9
87.0% Tackling success rate 88.0%
Set pieces
4 won, 1 lost (80.0%) Scrums on own feed 9 won, 1 lost (90.0%)
13 won, 2 lost (86.7%) Lineouts on own throw 9 won, 2 lost (81.8%)
Discipline
10 Penalties conceded 8
0/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

RaMet stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Germain 0/0 12 7/2/6 27 0 0 1 1 4/1 1/0 0 0/0
W Bobo 0/0 0 0/4/2 10 0 0 1 3 1/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Chavancy 0/0 0 0/1/3 0 0 0 0 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Estebanez 0/0 0 0/3/6 31 0 1 1 2 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Imhoff 1/0 5 1/1/3 80 3 3 0 0 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Hernandez 0/0 3 10/15/6 11 0 0 2 1 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
SH Loree 0/0 0 8/37/0 0 0 0 0 1 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Lo Cicero Vaina 0/0 0 0/0/3 1 0 0 0 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
H Noirot 0/0 0 0/0/3 7 0 1 0 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Orlandi 0/0 0 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 4/2 0/0 1 0/0
L Ghezal 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 1 4/1 5/0 0 0/0
L Qovu Nailiko 0/0 0 0/0/8 9 0 0 0 2 5/1 1/0 4 0/0
F Leo'o 0/0 0 0/3/3 4 0 0 1 1 12/0 1/0 0 0/0
F Battut 0/0 0 0/1/2 6 0 1 0 2 6/0 4/1 0 0/0
N8 Cronje 0/0 0 1/3/7 15 0 0 0 1 7/2 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Ben Arous 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Coetzee 0/0 0 0/1/1 4 0 0 1 0 3/0 0/0 1 0/0
(R) Nallet 0/0 0 0/0/2 2 0 0 0 0 6/0 1/0 0 0/0
(R) Durand 0/0 0 1/18/0 0 0 0 0 2 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Wisniewski 0/0 0 2/9/2 8 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Vakatawa 0/0 0 0/0/4 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Vaquin 0/0 0 0/0/1 4 0 2 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

Cdiff stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Czekaj 0/0 0 7/1/7 90 1 2 0 2 2/0 1/0 0 0/0
W Cuthbert 1/0 5 1/4/7 60 1 1 1 1 3/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Laulala 0/1 0 3/11/9 7 0 1 5 2 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Roberts 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
W James 0/0 0 2/3/9 84 1 4 0 1 1/2 0/0 0 0/0
FH Parks 0/0 16 7/24/1 8 0 0 0 2 0/1 0/0 0 0/0
SH Williams 0/0 0 7/55/4 19 0 2 1 1 0/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Jenkins 0/0 0 0/4/6 13 0 0 0 0 0/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Thomas 0/0 0 0/4/2 8 0 1 0 1 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Filise 1/0 5 0/0/5 11 0 0 0 0 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
L Davies 0/0 0 0/2/5 3 0 0 0 0 7/0 1/1 1 0/0
L Down 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
F Paterson 0/0 0 1/3/4 7 0 0 1 0 8/0 2/0 1 0/0
F Warburton 0/0 0 0/1/3 2 0 0 0 0 10/0 0/0 2 0/0
N8 Rush 0/0 0 0/6/11 27 0 1 0 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Andrews 0/0 0 0/0/3 4 0 0 0 0 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
(R) Tito 0/0 0 0/1/6 8 0 0 0 1 7/0 5/0 0 0/0
(R) Pretorius 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 2 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Sweeney 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(R) Evans 0/0 0 0/5/4 0 0 0 1 0 4/1 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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