{"id":632289,"date":"2025-12-14T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632289\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:13:13","slug":"match-report-castres-33-0-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632289\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report – Castres 33 – 0 Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Castres claimed a dominant home win over Edinburgh in round two of Champions Cup; Sunday also sees Bath visit Toulon and Northampton Saints host Vodacom Bulls <\/p>\n

Last Updated: 14\/12\/25 4:56pm<\/p>\n

\"Edinburgh<\/p>\n

\n Edinburgh suffered a big defeat to Castres <\/p>\n

Edinburgh were brought back down to earth in the Investec Champions Cup as they fell to a 33-0 defeat at Castres.<\/p>\n

The visitors claimed a stunning 33-20 win over Toulon on their return to the competition last week but they were well beaten in France this time as the home side pulled away in the second half.<\/p>\n

Christian Ambadiang’s 12th-minute try was the only score of the first period but the lead extended to 12-0 within six minutes second-half minutes when Loris Zarantonello crossed and Pierre Popelin converted.<\/p>\n

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Tyler Ardron was the third Castres player to score a try as they stretched their advantage even further and Edinburgh’s cause was not helped when Piers O’Conor was shown a yellow card for a dangerous tackle.<\/p>\n

Castres took full advantage, Adam Vargas securing the bonus point with the hosts’ fourth try when he crossed in the corner.<\/p>\n

The scoring was complete in the 63rd minute when Popelin sent over his fourth conversion following Vilimoni Botitu’s try.<\/p>\n

Challenge Cup: Exeter hopes hit by late Racing 92 fightback<\/p>\n

Exeter succumbed to a late fightback from Racing 92 after Greg Fisilau had been sent to the sin-bin as the French side snatched a dramatic 31-31 draw in their Investec Challenge Cup match at the Stade Dominique Duvauchelle.<\/p>\n

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After Kleo Labarbe put the hosts ahead with an early try, the Chiefs, who beat Cheetahs 42-12 in their opening game, responded as Martin Moloney and Kane James both touched down.<\/p>\n

Selestino Ravutaumada’s 27th-minute try pulled Racing back in the game, only for Lewis Pearson and Rus Tuima to go over before the break to give Exeter what seemed a solid 28-12 lead, with Ben Coen making all the conversions.<\/p>\n

After a hectic first half, the tempo dropped following changes from both sides in the pack.<\/p>\n

Exeter saw Tuima given a yellow card just after the hour, with Racing capitalising to score another try through Romain Taofifenua before Coen kicked a 70th-minute penalty and Fisilau was also then sent to the sin bin.<\/p>\n

Nolann Donguy’s try set up a tense finish and Racing rallied as Antoine Latrasse went over in added time, with Geronimo Prisciantelli slotting over the extras to complete the comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castres claimed a dominant home win over Edinburgh in round two of Champions Cup; Sunday also sees Bath…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[191815,5012,28230,748,78665,191816,191817,191818,1102,28232,918,4884,191668,15458,4306,257,12760,12,11952,15032,28229,6922,1071,14236,4151,12070,15033,712,197,79,2385,191819,16,7913,7922,15,28226],"class_list":["post-632289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-airon","tag-bath","tag-biarritz","tag-britain","tag-cardiff-blues","tag-castres","tag-clearmont","tag-dragos","tag-edinburgh","tag-fixtures","tag-glasgow","tag-great-britain","tag-investec-champions-cup","tag-irish","tag-leinster","tag-london","tag-munster","tag-news","tag-northampton","tag-ospreys","tag-perpignan","tag-photos","tag-racing","tag-results","tag-rugby","tag-saracens","tag-scarlets","tag-scotland","tag-sky","tag-sports","tag-toulouse","tag-treviso","tag-uk","tag-ulster","tag-union","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wasps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115719046906260297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}