Bulls vs Toulouse

French club Toulouse secured a comfortable 33-9 victory over the Bulls in the Champions Cup last 16 at the Stade Ernest-Wallon on Sunday, ...

Penalties: Thomas Ramos (4) Conversions: Thomas Ramos (3) Somehow, the Bulls stayed in the fight and trailed just by six points after Thomas Ramos and Chris Smith went for it on the kicking tee, with the hosts leading 12-6.

IOL Sport's Ashfak Mohamed looks at five key player battles that could decide the result at the 33 000-capacity Stadium de Toulouse…

He is almost always available for a carry, makes a lot of tackles and contests the breakdown too. He will need to be watched with ball-in-hand as he has a bit more freedom to try things due to the talismanic presence of halfback partner Antoine Dupont and the fact that Ramos does the goal-kicking. Englishman Matthew Carley is an eagle-eyed referee, and won’t miss a beat – so the Bulls openside flank will have to be careful not to go off his feet when contesting the breakdowns. He is also a courageous tackler, and is never shy to claim a high ball. But he is up against a wily old customer in Ramos, who is so much more than just an ace goal-kicker. Arendse is the dashing runner with pace to burn, who can cut defences apart with his speed, skill and fearlessness.

Toulouse scored three second-half tries against the Bulls to secure their place in the Champions Cup quarter-finals, where they will face the Sharks.

[Toulouse](https://www.planetrugby.com/team/toulouse) then put the game to bed just after the hour mark after forcing a turnover from a Bulls scrum. Under a penalty advantage, Dupont chipped the ball over the Bulls’ defence and try line. Meafou got the first in the 51st minute as Toulouse cashed in from a penalty close to the Bulls’ line. [Thomas Ramos](https://www.planetrugby.com/tag/thomas-ramos), scored 18 points off the tee. However, Lebel’s feet lifted at just the right time as he dotted down in the corner. Man of the match,

French giants Toulouse easily dispatched the Bulls 33-9 in the Heineken Champions Cup last 16 on Sunday to set up an exciting quarterfinal clash against the ...

Lebel scored the second four minutes later. Bulls 9 (6): Penalties: Chris Smith (3) . Conversion: Thomas Ramos (3) Penalties: Ramos (4).

Poor discipline and stage-fright contributed to the Bulls being dumped out of the Champions Cup by a strong Toulouse outfit on Sunday.

Penalties: Ramos (4) Conversions: Thomas Ramos (3). With the pressure mounting after a number of infringements, the Bulls lost centre Harold Vorster to a yellow card on the half-hour mark for hands in the ruck, and Ramos added a fourth penalty to make it 12-3.

Toulouse turned on the style in the second half to beat Bulls 33-9 and reach the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup.

[Chris Smith](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/chris-smith/) in a battle of penalties, but it was a different story in the second half as Toulouse’s dominance showed. [Emmanuel Meafou](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/emmanuel-meafou/), [Matthis Lebel](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/matthis-lebel/) and [Thibaud Flament](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/thibaud-flament/), all after the break and all converted by [Thomas Ramos](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/thomas-ramos/), took the game away from the South Africans after a cagey first half. Toulouse turned on the style in the second half to beat Bulls 33-9 and reach the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup.

French giants Toulouse easily dispatched the Bulls 33-9 in the Heineken Champions Cup last 16 on Sunday to set up an exciting quarterfinal clash against the ...

Lebel scored the second four minutes later. Bulls 9 (6): Penalties: Chris Smith (3) . Conversion: Thomas Ramos (3) Penalties: Ramos (4).

Five-time winners Stade Toulousain delivered a patient and impressive performance in their round of 16 Heineken Champions Cup encounter against the Vodacom ...

Penalty goals: Ramos (4). Conversions: Thomas Ramos (3). Smith had the first say in the game with a penalty goal in first minute, but this was cancelled out minutes later as Ramos kicked back-to-back three-pointers within four minutes to take their lead to 6-3.

RC Toulouse stuttered their way to an easy 33-9 Heineken Champions' Cup victory over the Vodacom Bulls on Sunday, booking themselves a tie against the Cell ...

It was a day the Bulls would rather forget. But for the next 30 minutes Toulouse camped in their half and came away with penalties but nothing else. But other than the glimpses of an attack, they had nothing else to offer. And somehow the team need to arrest the decline. In the second half the Bulls were better, but one passage of play summed up their day in France perfectly. Instead of a penalty, Carley ruled the ball is playable and Toulouse turned the ball over, went 40 metres and scored.

The Vodacom Bulls ran out of steam at Le Stadium on Sunday as five-time Champions Cup winners Toulouse scored 21 unanswered points to advance to the ...

— Heineken Champions Cup (@ChampionsCup) The first half was a low-scoring affair, as Bulls flyhalf Chris Smith and Toulouse fullback Tomas Ramos traded penalties. [READ: Wiese ‘will be a star’ for Boks](https://www.sarugbymag.co.za/wiese-will-star-boks/)

Jake White said his Bulls team needed to work hard to curb their six-game losing streak but the focus was now on making the URC playoffs.

The margins are fine. At 12-9, maybe [they were in the fight]. White, however, said their mission was to now make the United Rugby Championship (URC) playoffs. "There were 16 games of Champions and Challenge Cup rugby and I think almost everyone won their home game except the two teams that were in the Champions Cup that dropped down to the Challenge Cup: Lyon and Clermont." "We've got to make sure that we keep working hard to make sure we get into the playoffs of the competitions that are left." "What's important to understand is, when you enter a competition, if you win the first eight and lose the second eight games and get to the playoffs, you have the same number of chances as the team that wins 16 in a row and gets to the playoffs.