Top 14 round-up: Toulon lose at home

Reigning Top 14 champions Toulon were beaten at home by Stade Francais, while Racing Metro, Bayonne and Oyonnax all earned victories on Saturday.

Bayonne 23-6 Brive

Brive had four players yellow-carded as Bayonne cruised to a comfortable victory at Jean Dauger.

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As they have for much of this season, Nicolas Godignon's side lost their heads, and that ended up costing them the game against a Bayonne team who controlled proceedings.

The first half was marked by Brive's indiscipline as the visitors lost three men to yellow cards in the space of 40 minutes, including two sin-binnings for high tackles on Marvin O'Connor.

The first man to go was Simon Pinet, caught for use of the boot on an opponent, and in his absence Bayonne used their numerical advantage to open the scoring.

It started with a powerful rolling maul for the Basques, and when the ball came out, they spread to the wing where Rokocoko had far too much space and was able to go over in the corner.

From out wide Blair Stewart converted to make it 7-0 after quarter of an hour.

In a scrappy game both teams struggled to find their rhythm, but just before the half-hour Brive found themselves a man down once more, Andrew Malilei given a ten-minute rest when he couldn't get down low enough for a tackle on O'Connor.

He's not the first player to have struggled with the diminutive winger, and he was soon joined by teammate Dominiko Waqaniburotu for the same offence.

Stewart converted that penalty to extend the lead to ten points, and that was how it stayed until the break, with Brive full-back Gaetan Germain having missed two shots at goal for the visitors.

Germain was in better kicking form after the break, opening Brive's account on 53 minutes after Charles Ollivon had been penalised.

But the visitors were struggling in the scrum, and they paid the price five minutes later when Kevin Buys was sin-binned, giving Stewart the chance to extend the lead with three more points, which he duly did.

Germain added his second penalty of the afternoon 15 minutes from time but Stewart responded in kind.

And Bayonne then sealed the win at the death when Simon Labouyrie emerged from a pile of bodies after a powerful rolling maul.

The win moves Bayonne out of the bottom two, while Brive are still to pick up a point on their travels, having picked up four yellow cards on both occasions.

Oyonnax 40-27 Grenoble

Oyonnax saw off Grenoble 40-27 in an entertaining encounter at Charles Mathon with Benjamin Urdapilleta in fine form for the hosts.

In a thrilling first half, Oyonnax made the quicker start, taking the lead through a Urdapilleta penalty.

They extended the lead on eight minutes when Maurie Fa'asavalu, who arrived from Harlequins over the off-season, showed his dexterity to score, initially breaking through a tackle before sidestepping his way over.

Urdapilleta converted, and added another a penalty after James Hart had responded with a penalty of his own for Grenoble.

Hart, starting for the first time this season, added another penalty just before the half-hour to cut the deficit to seven, but Oyonnax responded immediately.

Winger Maxime Le Bourhis had a simple run-in when he collected the ball off the back of a rolling maul, and Urdapilleta converted from in front to make it 20-6 to the home side.

Another penalty from Urdapilleta extended the lead for Oyonnax, but Grenoble stayed in touch thanks to Hart.

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