{"id":10672,"date":"2022-09-30T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:00:41","slug":"botia-fit-for-la-rochelle-as-dupont-captains-toulouse-in-champions-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10672","title":{"rendered":"Botia fit for La Rochelle as Dupont captains Toulouse in Champions Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA ROCHELLE HAVE been handed a big boost ahead of tomorrow\u2019s Heineken Champions Cup final against Toulouse in Twickenham [KO 4.45pm, Virgin Media\/BT Sport] with the return to fitness of influential centre Levani Botia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fijian star has been dealing with an ankle injury since the club\u2019s semi-final win over Leinster but has been passed fit to start tomorrow\u2019s European decider in London.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Gourdon starts in the back row for Jono Gibbes and Ronan O\u2019Gara\u2019s side, having come off the bench against Leinster, while Dany Priso comes in at loosehead prop.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, injuries in the Toulouse midfield mean Argentinian centre\u00a0Juan Cruz Mallia has been named for his first start in the Champions Cup on what will be just his second appearance in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Toulouse captain Julien Marchand is missing due to suspension, with Paeto Mauvaka starting at hooker in his place and Antoine Dupont taking over as skipper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p >La Rochelle:<\/p>\n<p>15. Brice Dulin<br \/>14. Dillyn Leyds<br \/>13. Geoffrey Doumayrou<br \/>12. Levani Botia<br \/>11. Raymond Rhule<br \/>10. Ihaia West<br \/>9. Tawera Kerr Barlow<\/p>\n<p>1. Dany Priso<br \/>2. Pierre Bourgarit<br \/>3. Uini Atonio<br \/>4. Romain Sazy (captain)<br \/>5. Will Skelton<br \/>6. Gr\u00e9gory Alldritt<br \/>7. Kevin Gourdon<br \/>8. Victor Vito.<\/p>\n<p >Toulouse:<\/p>\n<p>15. Maxime M\u00e9dard<br \/>14. Cheslin Kolbe<br \/>13. Juan Cruz Mall\u00eda<br \/>12. Pita Ahki<br \/>11. Matthis Lebel<br \/>10. Romain Ntamack<br \/>9. Antoine Dupont (captain)<\/p>\n<p>1. Cyril Baille<br \/>2. Peato Mauvaka<br \/>3. Charlie Faumuina<br \/>4. Rory Arnold<br \/>5. Richie Arnold<br \/>6. Rynhardt Elstadt<br \/>7. Francois Cros<br \/>8. Jerome Kaino.<\/p>\n<p><em>Replacements:<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.shopskm.com\/United-Kingdom-Rugby-Jerseys' title='United Kingdom Rugby Jersey'>United Kingdom Rugby Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16. Guillaume Marchand<br \/>17. Cl\u00e9ment Castets<br \/>18. David Ainu\u2019u<br \/>19. Joe Tekori<br \/>20. Thibaud Flament<br \/>21. Selevasio Tolofua<br \/>22. Baptiste Germain<br \/>23. Thomas Ramos\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Luke Pearce [RFU].<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    Source: The42 Rugby Weekly\/SoundCloud<\/p>\n<p ><em>Bernard Jackman, Murray Kinsella, and Gavan Casey look back on two cracking weekend inter-pros, look forward to the Champions Cup final, and discuss the growth of the sport in non-rugby strongholds such as Tallaght which still needs more institutional support.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p  >\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA ROCHELLE HAVE been handed a big boost ahead of tomorrow\u2019s Heineken Champions Cup final against Toulouse in Twickenham [KO 4.45pm, Virgin Media\/BT Sport] with the return to fitness of influential centre Levani Botia.\u00a0 The Fijian star has been dealing with an ankle injury since the club\u2019s semi-final win over Leinster but has been passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}