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<BR>Treviso=formalità!!!!! Purtroppo é vero e in Italia bisognerebbe dire quello che pensano alla BBC e in altri siti delle squadre italiane. Lo leggerano i dirigenti italiani o magari non sanno neanche parlare inglese????8-)
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<BR>Biarritz complete home formalities
<BR>Sunday December 11 2005
<BR>French champions move to the top of Pool Four
<BR>Biarritz sit atop Pool Four of the Heineken Cup after a comfortable 34-7 win over Treviso on Sunday.
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<BR> The hosts ran in four tries within 44 minutes, and then sat back and soaked up the visitors' attacks, rarely breaking sweat all the while.
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<BR>The Biarritz play was so perfunctory later in the second half that coach Patrice Lagusquet was visibly furious at his team for not burying their opponents more emphatically.
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<BR>Form the kick-off, Biarritz's superiority was obvious. The forwards pushed the Italian pack off the ball, and Dimitri Yachvili and Julien Pyrelongue kept les Biarrots in Italian territory with some exact early kicking.
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<BR>Yachvili gave his team the lead with a penalty after eight minutes, and then Didier Chouchan began the scoring in earnest, popping up on the left wing to create the overlap to a fine three-quarter handling movement.
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<BR>Yachvili missed that conversion, but made no mistake five minutes later after Nicolas Brusque took Jean-Baptiste Gobelet's pop pass out of the tackle for the second try.
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<BR>It was 15-0 after the first quarter, but the rest of the half was strewn with play stoppages and injury breaks, particularly those to Treviso spearheads Franco Smith and David Dal Maso, which left the Italians looking very forlorn.
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<BR>Four minutes after the restart, Biarritz had the bonus point. First Jean-Baptiste Gobelet came off his wing perfectly to slice through the visitors' defence.
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<BR>Then, from the restart, Yachvili chipped up a ball for Sireli Bobo to collect, and the Fijian scooted under the posts for Yachvili to convert and make the score 29-0.
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<BR>Bobo nearly had another a few minutes later when he was caught a metre short after a blistering run down the touchline, and Biarritz took the foot right off the gas after that, eventually letting Australia 7s player Brendan Williams in for a consolation try, converted by Stuart Legg.
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<BR>But there was little fightback after that, and the game glided lazily to its inevitable outcome, marked only by a late Benjamin Noirot try.
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<BR>The scorers:
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<BR>For Biarritz:
<BR>Tries: Chouchan, Brusque, Gobelet, Bobo, Noirot
<BR>Cons: Yachvili 3
<BR>Pens: Yachvili
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<BR>For Treviso:
<BR>Try: Williams
<BR>Con: Legg
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<BR>Biarritz Olympique: 15 Nicolas Brusque, 14 Sireli Bobo, 13 Denis Lison, 12 Frederico Martin Arramburu, 11 Jean-Baptiste Gobelet, 10 Julien Peyrelongue, 9 Dimitri Yachvili, 8 Steve Malonga, 7 Thomas Lievremont (c), 6 Didier Chouchan, 5 David Couzinet, 4 Olivier Olibeau, 3 Benoit Lecouls, 2 Benoit August, 1 Petru Vladimir Balan.
<BR>Replacements: 16 Benjamin Noirot, 17 Denis Avril, 18 Ockert Booyse, 19 Thierry Dusautoir, 20 Julien Dupuy, 21 Benjamin Dambielle, 22 Jean-Baptiste Gobelet.
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<BR>Benetton Treviso: 15 Brendan Williams, 14 Massimiliano Perziano, 13 Marius Goosen, 12 Walter Pozzebon, 11 Stuart Legg, 10 Franco Smith, 9 Alessandro Troncon (captain), 8 Dion Kingi, 7 Silvio Orlando, 6 David Dal Maso, 5 Marco Wentzel, 4 Antonio Pavanello, 3 Pedro Di Santo, 2 Fabio Ongaro, 1 Augusto Allori
<BR>Replacements: 16 Franco Sbaraglini, 17 Hernán Mazino, 18 Andrea Gritti, 19 Enrico Pavanello, 20 Wim Wium, 21 Simon Picone, 22 Matteo Barbini
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<BR>Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
<BR>Touch judges: Alan Lewis (Ireland), John Carville (Ireland)
<BR>Television match official: Bertie Smith (Ireland)
<BR>Match commissioner: Jean-Louis Barthes (France)
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