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Toulouse 22-17 La Rochelle: Heavyweight collision lacks real sparkle but Toulouse won’t care

All the action from Twickenham as Toulouse lifted a fifth Champions Cup trophy to become the undisputed kings of Europe
Toulouse win a fifth Champions Cup

PLAUDITS to Toulouse for becoming the first team to win a recordbreaking five European Cup titles, but unfortunately for a club lauded for its attacking tradition, there was not much of the fizz of champagne rugby about this lockdown of a final.
There was plenty of bulldozing physicality and sweat, but in the end not enough guile and flair to get the 10,000 fans allowed into Twickenham for this all-French final on their feet anything but fleetingly.
It took until the hour for the big bash stalemate to finally come to life, when Toulouse’s star half-back pairing of Antoine Dupont and Romain ...

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