Glasgow 16 Toulouse 28:TOULOUSE CLAIMED a third win from three Heineken Cup Pool Six matches as they notched three first-half tries against Glasgow at Firhill last night.
Glasgow got the perfect start when Ruaridh Jackson goaled a first-minute penalty after David Skrela had fumbled his first pass.
On 11 minutes Byron Kelleher took a quick tap penalty, the Glasgow defence was out of position and Yannick Jauzion put Florian Fritz over for the opening try which Skrela converted.
Jackson missed with his third penalty but made amends when he pulled the margin back to one point with a 40-metre shot after 11 minutes. It took Skrela’s second penalty to take the score to 10-6.
Toulouse now turned the screw and after Kelleher, Cedric Heymans and William Servat were stopped short Jauzion went over for the visitors’ second try.
Two minutes later, Glasgow finally put an attack together and from a sparkling counter, Max Evans’ chip eluded Vincent Clerc for Federico Aramburu to grab the try, with Jackson slotting the conversion.
A Skrela penalty on the half-hour stretched the Toulouse lead and when Kelleher robbed Richie Vernon at the base of a retreating Glasgow scrum the home defence was caught out by a Fritz chip which let Max Medard put Heymans in for an unconverted try, Glasgow then scored through a Jackson penalty.
The second half was remarkable in that there was only one score, a Skrela penalty in the 58th minute.
GLASGOW: Stortoni, Aramburu, M. Evans, Morrison, van der Merwe, Jackson, Pyrgos, Welsh, Hall, Low, Gray, Kellock, Harley, Barclay, Vernon. Replacements: Murchie for Stortoni (72 mins), O’Hare for van der Merwe (71 mins), Gregor for Pyrgos (59 mins), Tkachuk for Welsh (57 mins), Thomson for Hall (57 mins), Kalman for Low (40 mins), Muldowney for Kellock (59 mins), Fusaro for Vernon (74 mins).
TOULOUSE: Medard, Clerc, Fritz, Jauzion, Heymans, Skrela, Kelleher, Poux, Servat, Johnston, Maestri, Albacete, Nyanga, Dustautoir, Sowerby. Replacements: Poitrenaud for Heymans (58 mins), Human for Poux (52 mins), Lacombe for Servat (47 mins), Montes for Johnston (52 mins), Lamboley for Albacete (58 mins), Bouilhou for Nyanga (47 mins).
Referee: J Jones (WRFU).
