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Double-chasing Clermont set up Top 14 final with Toulouse
The teams who finished first and second in the Top 14 regular season will contest the final after Clermont Auvergne got the better of Lyon.
Clermont Auvergne will face Toulouse in the Top 14 final after an emphatic 33-13 defeat of Lyon in Bordeaux on Sunday.
Les Jaunards kept their double hopes alive a month after lifting the European Challenge Cup in Newcastle.
Liam Gill put Lyon in front with a try 15 minutes in, but Greig Laidlaw was on target with three penalties before Damian Penaud touched down for a try that the Scotland captain converted to make it 16-8 at the break.
Alivereti Raka added a second Clermont try just after Lyon prop Clement Ric had been shown a yellow card, but Deon Fourie finished at the other end.
Fourie’s score came following Camille Lopez’s departure to the sin bin, giving Lyon hope of pulling off a fightback.
It was not to be, though, as George Moala went over following another Laidlaw penalty and Clermont set up a showdown between the regular season’s top two at Stade de France next Saturday.
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