Racing outkick Brive

Racing-Métro went down from Paris and kicked six kicks to the home side's four and so beat Brive 18-12 in miserable weather at Stade Amédée-Domenech in Top 14 action on Friday night.

The half-time score was 3-3 after Mathieu Belie had opened the scoring with a penalty goal.

It was a match of much kicking with the Racing forwards in the ascendant.

Gaëtan Germain kicked 12 points and for Brive Belie and Julien Caminati six each. When captain Jacques Cronjé was penalised for holding on in a tackle, Caminati's penalty goal on the stroke of time earned Brive a loser's bonus point.

The scorers:

For Brive:
Pens: Belie 2, Caminati 2

For Racing-Métro:
Pens: Germain 4, Wisniewski
DG: Lorée

The teams:

Brive: 15 Julien Caminati, 14 Jacques Boussuge, 13 Arnaud Mignardi, 12 Jamie Noon, 11 Ronnie Cooke, 10 Scott Spedding, 9 Mathieu Belie, 8 Julien Ledevedec, 7 Alexandre Bias, 6 Antonie Claassen, 5 Arnaud Méla (captain), 4 Retief Uys, 3 Pablo Cardinali, 2 Iuri Natriashvili , 1 Vasil Kakovin.
Replacements: 16 Davit Kinchagishvili, 17 Pablo Henn, 18 Thibault Dubarry, 19 Olivier Caisso, 20 Tasi Luafutu, 21 Jean-Baptiste Pejoine, 22 Ayite Atayi, 23 Pat Barnard.

Racing-Métro: 15 Gaëtan Germain, 14 Sireli Bobo, 13 Virimi Vakatawa, 12 Guillaume Boussès, 11 Juan Jose Imhoff 10 Juan Martín Hernández, 9 Mathieu Lorée, 8 Jacques Cronjé (captain), 7 Antoine Battut, 6 Rémi Vaquin, 5 Jone Qovu, 4 Karim Ghezal, 3 Juan Pablo Orlandi, 2 Gregory Arganèse, 1 Andrea Lo Cicero.
Replacements: 16 Benjamin Noirot, 17 Eddy Ben Arous, 18 Lionel Nallet, 19 Johnny Leo'o, 20 Nicolas Durand, 21 Jonathan Wisniewski, 22 Fabrice Estebanez, 23 Johan Coetzee.

Referee: Greg Garner (England)
Assistant referees: Jean-Luc Rebollal, Dominique Parrini
TMO: Bernard Dal Maso