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Montpellier v Glasgow Warriors – Match Preview

Thursday 15th December 2011

12:00 am (GMT)

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Glasgow Warriors will be hoping to keep the pressure on Pool leaders and reigning champions

Glasgow Warriors will be hoping to keep the pressure on Pool leaders and reigning champions

Glasgow Warriors will be hoping to keep the pressure on Pool leaders and reigning champions, Leinster, when they travel to France to face Montpellier at the Stade Yves du Manoir.

The Warriors are second in Pool 3, two points ahead of Bath, and will be looking for another win to complete an impressive ‘double’ over the French side which reached last season’s Top 14 final.

The Scottish side have an impressive pedigree against French sides and pulled off one of the biggest shocks in the history of the Heineken Cup when they beat four-times champions, Toulouse, in 2004.   

Montpellier are still looking for a first victory in this season’s tournament, despite a draw against Leinster in the opening Pool game, but are only still only seven points behind the Pool leaders.

The French side, who are in their first season of Heineken Cup rugby, will almost certainly have a major bearing on which side qualifies for the tournament’s knockout stages.  

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Glasgow keep slim hopes alive

Saturday 17th December 2011

12:00 am (GMT)

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Glasgow coach Gregor Townsend will be up against two of his former club in this year's Heineken Cup campaign

Glasgow coach Gregor Townsend will be up against two of his former club in this year's Heineken Cup campaign

Rory Lamont marked his return to France with a try as Glasgow clinched a draw against Montpellier at Stade Yves du Manoir.

 


The Scottish international crossed for a crucial try, in just his second appearance for Glasgow after making the switch from Toulon, to keep his side's slim hopes of a Heineken Cup quarter-final place alive.

Glasgow had recorded an impressive 20-15 home victory over the French side last weekend to go second in Pool Three behind reigning champions Leinster. While winless Montpellier already had no chance of advancing from the group stages.

But Sean Lineen's men have to wait until the outcome of tonight's clash between Leinster and Bath to see where they lie in the pool .

The visitors survived an early onslaught and both Ruaridh Jackson and Lilian Perraux missed penalties to go in front.
But it was home side who finally got the scoreboard ticking when wing Yoan Audrin finished off a sweeping attack with a try, which was converted by Perraux.

Glasgow finally got their first points thanks to the boot of Jackson but Perraux hit back immediately with a penalty to restore their seven point lead.

The teenage fly-half, starting ahead of Francois Trinh-Duc, then added his second and third penalties to stretch the home side's lead.

With replacement prop Maximiliano in the sin-bin Glasgow made the one-man advantage count when Chris Cusiter and Weir worked the blindside to put Lamont in at the left corner for the Warriors first try.

Weir converted to bring the Scottish side to within three points of their hosts and added another penalty to draw level.

Replacement scrum-half Benoit Paillaugue had the opportunity to snatch a win at the death, after taking up the kicking duties ahead of France star Trinh-Duc, but skewed the straight-forward penalty as Glasgow hung-on.  

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