Top 14 (R2) – Three unbeaten sides, 429 points in one round

Two rounds, 833 points. Over the same stretch last season, the Top 14 produced 664. The league is already above last season’s average of 58.7 points per match.

The seven results

Pau score ten tries

Yohan Orabe was sent off in the 4th minute and Bayonne played the rest of the match with fourteen men. Pau led 35-7 at the break and finished on 70. Théo Attissogbé, Rodrigo Marta and Hugo Auradou each scored twice.

With 97 points in two rounds, Section Paloise go top of the standings on points difference, ahead of LOU, who are also on nine points.

Racing have now conceded 112 points

Beaten 64-5 in Bordeaux and then 48-31 at home by LOU, Racing 92 have conceded 112 points in two matches for a points difference of minus 76. Jiuta Wainiqolo and Arthur Mathiron scored two tries apiece for the Lyon side. Joseph Manu replied with a brace for Racing, and Ugo Seunes scored the final try in the 79th minute.

The club are bottom with zero points, level with Vannes.

One point at Mayol, nine points at the Michelin

La Rochelle left Toulon with a 21-20 win, achieved with eighteen-year-old Valentin Bouju starting at scrum-half. Two rounds, two wins, a combined margin of four points.

Clermont beat Stade Français 25-16 after trailing 3-6 at the break and scoring all three of their tries after the 52nd minute. Perpignan beat Castres 43-29 with two tries from Peceli Yato in the final quarter of an hour. Montpellier won 26-12 in Vannes, even though the Brittany club led 12-11 at half-time.

Fourteen cards in seven matches

Thirteen yellow cards and one red card were shown over the round, compared with nine yellows and one red in the first. Montpellier had three players sin-binned in Vannes, Racing 92 two against LOU.

The standings after two rounds