Top 14: Stade Francais end 2014 top of the table after win over Toulon

Stade Francais shocked defending champions Toulon 30-6 to end the year at the summit of the Top 14.

It was wins for all the home teams as the Top 14 came to the end of 2014.

Stade Francais 30-6 Toulon

Defending champions Toulon were shocked by a determined Stade Francais side who won 30-6 in Paris, relinquishing top spot in the league to their hosts.

Three tries to the hosts from Sergio Parisse, substitute Jeremy Sinzelle and Georgian prop Zurab Zhavania gave the Parisians an impressive win to end 2014.

Stade started strongly when they won a scrum against the feed and Italian Parisse strolled over for the opening score of the game.

Fly-half Jules Plisson then extended his team’s lead with two penalties in quick succession.

Disaster then struck for Toulon, who lost prop Matias Cortese to the sin-bin in an attempt to stem the flow of attack from their hosts.

Two minutes later flanker Virgile Bruni was shown a yellow card, reducing his team to 13 men as Plisson extended the Stade lead to 16-0.

However the visitors seemed to focus with their numerical disadvantage, and scored six points to make it 16-6 at the break.

Fly-half Sanchez and full-back Leigh Halfpenny failed with a drop goal and a kickable penalty respectively, with time running out for the visitors.

And it was the hosts who were able to add further points through tries from Sinzelle and Zhavania to give Stade a big win to end the year.

Lyon 16-13 Clermont

Lyon pulled of a shock win over Clermont with a late try from Kendrick Lynn.

The hosts took the lead with three points from Jerome Porical after seven minutes, but Brock James brought the visitors level shortly afterwards.

Though Lyon were impressive with ball in hand, Clermont’s trademark defence kept the home side out for much of the first half. Peceli Yato was on hand when Clermont were given an opportunity, with the No 8 crashing over out wide following a move that stretched the hosts' defence.

James added the conversion to take his team out to a 10-3 lead, where the score remained until the half-time whistle.

James missed an early second-half chance to extend Clermont’s lead but made no mistake on the second attempt.

Alexandre Lapandry was shown a yellow card for his part in a series of infringements from Clermont in defence, reducing the visitors to 14 men.

Porical added three points from the infringement to take the hosts to within a score, and after Julien Bonnaire was penalised at a ruck Porical made it a four-point game.

Lyon came agonisingly close to stealing the game on numerous occasions but were continually kept out by the Clermont defence.

However, with minutes to play Morgan Parra had a pass intercepted and the visitors were asked to defend one more time deep in their half.

Clermont held on admirably but ultimately Lynn was able to give his side a relieving score to snatch a victory over the top-four team.

Toulouse 15-9 Racing Metro

Good defence and poor conditions left both Toulouse and Racing Metro unable to score any tries on Sunday, but the hosts were able to come away with a 15-9 win thanks to the boot of All Black Luke McAlister.

It was Racing who were in the lead at the end of the first quarter thanks to a penalty and a drop goal from Benjamin Dambielle, who gave his side a slender 6-3 advantage following a Toby Flood penalty.

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