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Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

TMO allows the try and racing push clear as sexton slots the conversion between the posts. 16-6 after 52 mins

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Fall passes the ball out to sexton in what looked like a forward pass. Sexton with a strong hand-off breaks free and manages to pass the ball back inside to Fall who has just 20 metres to run in open space for the line. The TMO is used to retrace the forward pass. Decision pending….

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Racing look good in attack and are trying desperately to breach the red defence however perpignan don't seem to budge and their counter rucking is working very well and winning some ball against the head

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Perpignan play the ball inside their own 22 and manage to run around Racing's defence and we are now up on the half way line

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

And Jonny Sexton gets us underway for the second 40.

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Play is brought back to the place of the scrum as Sexton round up the first half with another 3 points giving Racing the lead at half time. A fairly ropey first half here in Paris with few fascinating game plays and lots of mistakes resulting in a lot of scrums. Stay with us to see how the second half pans out.

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Ball chipped ahead by Fall and is push just too far and Plante doesn't make it.

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Racing now have a scrum 5 metres from the line just between the posts. Lets see if they can covert this chance to the scoreboard.

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Scrum to the Catalonians.. Chance for something big here

Ultimate Rugby Sep 9

Play is paused as Swarsewski is being attended to.