What a last sequence! Unstoppable… Like Stade Toulousain, hung on by Pau but sure of its game to the point of seeking victory at the last minute with an immense succession of passes and percussions. Perhaps the Palois should not have upset their hosts from the outset by scoring a great style and heartfelt try, in the center, on a clear combination with a double from the 3rd minute. Against all expectations, the Section launched the attack and led the score, 0-7. Then the Toulouse players, stung by the sharpness of Émilien Gailleton, took action in their characteristic style, that is to say by chaining together standing passes to create and then improve the intervals.
Santiago Chocobares in the reorganized disorder (12th), Peato Mauvaka behind a ball carried unrolled on the blackboard (18th) and Jack Willis in power at the level (23rd) put Stade Toulousain back on track, 19-7. Not at all impressed, the Béarnais who came to Ernest-Wallon to take up the challenge of the movement continued to cheerfully attack the defense and found the fault a second time through the center in a beautiful exchange of passes which put their fast rear Théo Attissogbe into orbit (36th) .
With a penalty goal from Thibault Daubagna, Pau stuck to the score at the break, 19-15, and as soon as the restart took the lead thanks to an interception by the same Attisogbe. His astonishing run over sixty meters (43rd, 19-22) allowed him to obtain a double. But Toulouse resumed its work of undermining with a lot of passes until placing its giant Manu Meafou in a testing situation. Even though he had three partners standing out on his outside, the strong man of the Toulouse pack rushed straight to pulverize three defenders (52nd).
After regaining the score (26-22), the French champions began to do anything with their restart balls and were intercepted a second time for an opportunistic try from Eliott Roudil (67th). It was after the return to competition of Romain Ntamack after eight months of absence due to injury (ligament rupture of the left knee), and before the return to the field of Antoine Dupont (69th) to the scrum to reform the hinge of the XV of France, he who had kindly left his place as opener to his accomplice. The reconstituted duo weighed in to organize the final sequence, synonymous with victory. The Béarnais, having come so close to the feat, will not really console themselves with a defensive bonus.