Lyon V Edinburgh

by **RDW** Wed 14 Jan 2015, 8:57 am

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Lyon V Edinburgh Rugby

Saturday 17th January
20:45 (local time)
Matmut Stadium

Referee Neil Hennessy (Wales)
Touch Judge 1 Simon Rees (Wales)
Touch Judge 2 Chris Williams (Wales)
Fourth Official Christophe Mallet (France)
TMO Paul Adams (Wales)
Citing Commissioner John Byett (England)

Form guide

P W D L PF PA TF TA TB LB P
1 Edinburgh Rugby 4 4 0 0 89 49 8 4 0 0 16
3 Lyon 4 2 0 2 111 108 12 11 2 0 10

12/12/14 Lyon 37 - 28 Bordeaux 8,733
6/12/14 Bordeaux 37 - 29 Lyon 4,250
24/10/14 Edinburgh 25 - 17 Lyon 4,651

14/12/14 L Welsh 6 - 24 Edinburgh 3,258
7/12/14 Edinburgh 25 - 13 L Welsh 3,212
24/10/14 Edinburgh 25 - 17 Lyon 4,651

Official blurb

The Scottish side are currently top of Pool 4 with four victories from their four games to date, but Lyon and fellow French side Bordeaux-Begles remain firmly in the mix for a quarter-final place.

Victories over local rivals Glasgow and at Connacht mean Alan Solomons' team will travel to France full of confidence as they look to complete the task of securing qualification.

Scott credits their European form with helping to turn around a stuttering start to the season, and hopes Edinburgh can kick on over the final two pool weekends.

He said: "We have had some big results this season but never backed them up and that was what was pleasing about the Connacht game. We played very well in difficult conditions and we dominated the second half.

"This is a team that has grown over the last month. We have had injuries and players missing and we are moving in the right directions, but we need to keep it going.

"The European games gave us confidence early in the season with how we beat Bordeaux, and we beat Lyon here despite having a lot of injuries. These two results mean we can focus on doing a job in Europe and really push for qualification."
Lyon must beat Edinburgh or their last-eight aspirations will be over.

Match facts
- Edinburgh and Gloucester are the two clubs with a 100% win rate this season.
- Edinburgh have played three times in France in the Challenge Cup, winning two with both victories coming by a two-point margin.
- Jerome Porical has kicked more goals than any other player in the competition this season, missing just one of his 21 attempts.
- Edinburgh boast the best tackling success rate (89%) in the Challenge Cup this season.

Teams

Lyon
Lyon V Edinburgh - Page 3 Marion10

15 Romain Loursac
14 Paul Bonnefond
13 Waisele Seru Sukanaveita
12 Fabrice Estebanez (capt)
11 Thibaut Regard
10 Lachie Munro
9 Ricky Januarie

1 Bogdan Balan
2 Damien Fitzpatrick
3 Horace Pungea
4 Mickael De Marco
5 Simon Christian Njewel
6 Steevy Cerqueira
7 Karim Ghezal
8 Masi Matadigo

16 Vincent Colliat
17 Sami Mavinga
18 Anthony Roux
19 Frans Viljoen
20 Eugene Nzi
21 Mathieu Loree
22 Didier Tison
23 Jerome Porical

Edinburgh

15 Jack Cuthbert
14 Dougie Fife
13 Matt Scott
12 Phil Burleigh
11 Tim Visser
10 Greig Tonks
9 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne

1 Alasdair Dickinson
2 Ross Ford
3 WP Nel
4 Anton Bresler
5 Ben Toolis
6 Mike Coman (capt)
7 Roddy Grant
8 David Denton

16 Neil Cochrane
17 Rory Sutherland
18 John Andress
19 Fraser McKenzie
20 Hamish Watson
21 Sean Kennedy
22 Jade Te Rure
23 Andries Strauss

by **RDW** Sat 17 Jan 2015, 9:40 pm

Set piece falling apart in the last 10 didn't help.

Makes things clear for next week - win and we top the group, lose and we're probably out!

by TJ Sat 17 Jan 2015, 9:41 pm

George Carlin wrote:
No problems with the refereeing tonight - it was good enough.

Aye - consistent if picky. I think the yellow was a mistake as the ball came from a Lyon players shoulder but it was blind side to the ref and I can totally understand why he gave it and Scott had been off his feet for a fraction of a second and given that the ref was very picky at ruck and maul its fair nough

by **RDW** Sat 17 Jan 2015, 9:43 pm

Edinburgh 17
UBB 16
Lyon 14

Given Lyon have London Welsh next (5 points) it literally will be win or out!

Really is ridiculous we didn't manage to get a try bp against LW over either game.

by VinceWLB Sat 17 Jan 2015, 9:47 pm

That ref is the exact opposite of Nigel Owens extremely picky and wont make the game flow. Actually if every ref was like him we would have a more enjoyable product overall as teams would know they wont get away with any infringements.

by **George Carlin** Sat 17 Jan 2015, 9:53 pm

Toolis and Bresler worked their arses off.
Just shows the gulf in class between starters and subs at the moment.

by VinceWLB Sat 17 Jan 2015, 10:02 pm

George Carlin wrote:Toolis and Bresler worked their arses off.
Just shows the gulf in class between starters and subs at the moment.

Amazing 2nd row pairing but it's only a matter of time before they get overplayed..

by **RDW** Sat 17 Jan 2015, 10:07 pm

Some players showed signs of being overplayed tonight

by VinceWLB Sat 17 Jan 2015, 10:19 pm

It's fair to say Solomons rotation policy (is there even one?) isn't the greatest. Given the physical approach adopted by Edinburgh, we will pay the price sooner or later, hope it's not next week.

by **RDW** Sun 18 Jan 2015, 8:39 am

Solomons has cited the two big games against Glasgow and connacht, plus the travel the last two weeks, as mitigating factors for Edinburgh losing - he should have mixed up the team then and used the squad!

by funnyExiledScot Sun 18 Jan 2015, 9:10 am

Ridiculous that Solomons is blaming the schedule. It was obvious that rotation was required for this game, at least in some form, and we were always going to need to beat Bordeaux anyway. Stupid selection and once again pathetic excuse.

by madmaccas Sun 18 Jan 2015, 1:53 pm

Just looking at the stats and Denton only made 2 tackles in 61 minutes. Has he become a bit of a powder puff?

by TJ Sun 18 Jan 2015, 8:31 pm

madmaccas wrote:Just looking at the stats and Denton only made 2 tackles in 61 minutes. Has he become a bit of a powder puff?

He did well in many ways - just they didn't attacke where he was defending. Looked back to his best pretty much to me

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