Glasgow Warriors booked their spot within the knockout levels of the Champions Cup with a scientific destruction of Racing 92 at Scotstoun.
First-half tries from George Horne, Jamie Dobie, Sebastian Cancelliere and Sione Tuipulotu put the hosts in management, with Vinaya Habosi responding for the French aspect.
Rory Darge crossed after the break and though substitute Lee-Marvin Mazibuko and Tristan Tedder hit again for the guests, Glasgow closed it out for an necessary bonus-point win.
Warriors face English Premiership aspect Harlequins on the Stoop subsequent weekend as they give the impression of being to safe a better spot within the last pool standings and guarantee a extra beneficial draw within the subsequent spherical.
They got here flying out of the blocks and have been over the Racing line with barely two minutes on the clock.
Tuipulotu made an impressive break from deep and some phases later some pretty dealing with allowed Josh McKay to place Horne away below the sticks and change into Glasgow’s document try-scorer in European competitors.
Horne needed to depart the sector shortly after for a head damage evaluation and didn’t reappear, however his alternative Dobie took no time to make his mark, getting on the tip of a strong burst from Matt Fagerson to dive over for the second strive.
Warriors have been cooking and a few beautiful dealing with within the midfield carved up the Racing defence and set Cancelliere free to attain.
The guests lastly confirmed some indicators of life 5 minutes earlier than the break, Antoine Gibert’s crossfield kick discovering Habosi to attain and cut back the deficit to 10 factors.
Glasgow hit again nearly instantly, Tuipulotu arriving onto the ball like a battering ram to chop via the defence, skip previous Henry Arundell and dive over to ascertain a 15-point benefit on the break.
The house aspect all however completed the competition when Darge peeled off the again of a rolling line-out maul to go over for strive quantity 5.
Racing then loved their first interval of sustained strain within the match and have been rewarded with a strive from Mazibuko.
The Parisians had belatedly arrived on the get together and Tedder completed off a beautiful passage of play to attain their third strive.
It was too little too late, nevertheless, as Glasgow banked the 5 factors to make sure their European problem will proceed into the knockout levels.
Glasgow: McKay, Cancelliere, Jones, Tuipulotu, Steyn, Jordan, G Horne, Sutherland, Matthews, Z Fagerson, Brown, Cummings, M Fagerson, Darge, Mann.
Replacements: Hiddleston, Bhatti, Talakai, Samuel, Miller, Ferrie, Dobie, Weir.
Racing 92: Spring, Habosi, Tedder, Chavancy, Arundell, Gibert, Le Bail, Julien, Kaitu’u, Sordoni, Palu, Kpoku, Zinzen, Diallo, Baudonne.
Replacements: Escobar, Ben Arous, Mazibuko, R. Taofifenua, Dayimani, Labarbe, Lancaster, Idrissi.
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, 2025-01-10 21:55:00
