After the 26th round of French Rugby Elite Division Top 14 five clubs of Georgian legionaries are leaders, which is a good chance of playing in play-off of championship.
After competition in Euro tournaments, in the previous match, “Toulon” hosted and beat “Mon de Marsan” 15:9. Davit Kubriashvili rested according to the decision of the head coach, as for other Georgians, Levan Chilachava and Kote Mikautadze were in the main line-ups. The first liner Chilachava did not appear during the match, as for the second-liner Mikautadze, he started playing at the 63th minute. In the current season it was the first time Kote appeared in the main team’s line-ups. Tamaz Mchedlidze was not in the line-ups of the team.
Jaba Bregvadze and Vasil Kakovini’s “Tulouz” hosted ‘Biarytz” without Georgians 19:14. “Tulouz” is in the second place with 54 points.
Davit Zirakishvili and Vito Kolelishvili were in the line-ups of “Clermon” against “Perpinian”—26:19, as a result ‘Clermon” has 54 points. Guestclub played without Georgian legionaries. Mamuka Gorgodze, Mikheil Nariashvili and Giorgi Jgenti’s “Montpellier” beat “Agen” 13:9 and as a result it is in the fourth place with45 points. Jgenti is still having a treatment, as for Gorgodze he played for 76 minutes and Nariashvili played for 54 minutes. Anton Peikrishvili’s “Castres’ beat ‘Bayon” 12:22. Georgian first liner was in the line-ups and played for 71 minutes. “Castres” is in the fifth place with44 points.
“Grenoble’ beat Zurab Zhvania’s “Stad France” with a big point difference and kept the chance playing in play-off. Georgian first liner did not participate in this match but his club managed to gain victory 35:6. Now “Stade France” is in the 9th place with 37 points and it is 5-point behind “Grenoble” which is in the 6th place.
Zaza Navrozashvili’s “Bordo” played against ‘Racing Metro” without its Georgian player and lost 15:22. It has 19 points and shares the 12-13th place with “Agen”. There is announced a pause in Top 14 and the matches will be renovated on February 9.
Zura Ksovreli
