{"id":30178,"date":"2026-05-22T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=30178"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:07:09","slug":"un-sacre-challenge-attend-montpellier-face-a-luster-du-cote-de-san-mames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/05\/22\/un-sacre-challenge-attend-montpellier-face-a-luster-du-cote-de-san-mames\/","title":{"rendered":"Un sacr\u00e9 challenge attend Montpellier face \u00e0 l\u2019Uster du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de San Mam\u00e8s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>San Mam\u00e8s, surnomm\u00e9e la Cath\u00e9drale du football, accueille deux chocs du rugby europ\u00e9en.<\/p>\n<p>La capitale du Pays basque espagnol a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisie pour \u00eatre la ville h\u00f4te des finales de coupes d\u2019Europe. Samedi, ce sera celle des Champions, qui verra Bordeaux-B\u00e8gles tenter de d\u00e9fendre sa couronne face aux Irlandais du Leinster. Mais avant cela, il y aura la mise en bouche, avec un autre club fran\u00e7ais ambitieux.<\/p>\n<p>Pour le Challenge europ\u00e9en, le duel verra Montpellier oppos\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019Ulster, le comt\u00e9 d\u2019Irlande du nord. Un choc entre deux des \u00e9quipes les plus efficaces de la saison dans cette comp\u00e9tition. Montpellier d\u00e9tient en effet le record d\u2019essais marqu\u00e9s (36), alors qu\u2019avec respectivement 239 points pour l\u2019Ulster et 235 pour le MHR, ce sera une confrontation entre la deuxi\u00e8me et la troisi\u00e8me meilleure attaque.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"intext\"> Passe de trois ?\n              <\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>N\u00e9anmoins, dans une finale, il ne peut y avoir qu\u2019un vainqueur. Et Montpellier, qui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 conquis \u00e0 deux reprises le Challenge, en 2016 et 2021, tentera la passe de trois. Depuis le sacre de Toulon au stade V\u00e9lodrome, en 2023, deux clubs anglais ont conquis le titre, Gloucester puis Bath, qui la saison derni\u00e8re avait domin\u00e9 Lyon (37-12). Alors que l\u2019Ulster visera une premi\u00e8re couronne europ\u00e9enne.<\/p>\n<p>Pour cette finale, l\u2019habituelle charni\u00e8re Alexis Bernadet &#8211; Alexander Masibaka, titulaire dans les matches europ\u00e9ens, c\u00e8de sa place au tandem du Top\u00a014 Domingo Miotti &#8211; Ali Price. Alors que Billy Vunipola retrouve sa place au centre de la troisi\u00e8me ligne, r\u00e9cup\u00e9rant par la m\u00eame occasion le brassard. Ce groupe aura pour mission de prendre Challenge, et vaincre le signe indien de trois d\u00e9faites en trois confrontations face \u00e0 l\u2019Ulster. Un adversaire qui va, lui, aligner son quinze type.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><i><b>Finale du Challenge europ\u00e9en<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Stade San Mam\u00e8s de Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p>21h (France TV).<\/p>\n<p>Arbitre : Matthew Carley (ANG).<\/p>\n<p><b>MONTPELLIER :<\/b> Banks &#8211; N\u2019Gandebe, Vincent, Cadot, Taofifenua &#8211; Miotti ( o ), Price (m) &#8211; Vunipola, Becogn\u00e9e, Nouchi &#8211; Verhaeghe, DuGuid &#8211; Haouas, U\u00e9l\u00e9se, Forletta.<\/p>\n<p><b>ULSTER :<\/b> Lowry &#8211; Baloucoune, Hume, Postlethwaite, Ward &#8211; Murphy ( o ), Doak (m) &#8211; Augustus, Timoney, McCann &#8211; Sheridan, Izuchukwu &#8211; O\u2019Toole, Stewaer, Bell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Mam&egrave;s, surnomm&eacute;e la Cath&eacute;drale du football, accueille deux chocs du rugby europ&eacute;en.La capitale du Pays basque espagnol a &eacute;t&eacute; choisie pour &ecirc;tre la ville h&ocirc;te des finales de coupes &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3926,3925,7],"tags":[4080,239,4514,240,904],"news-destination":[3944],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-30178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accueil-merge","category-accueil-third","category-sports","tag-coupe-deurope","tag-herault","tag-mhr","tag-montpellier","tag-rugby","news-destination-homepage","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30180,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions\/30180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=30178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}