Toulon have little time to react and even though Williams wins the dropout from Wilkinson Toulon come in from the side giving the referee no choice to award a penalty to Brive and blow the whistle for half time. Bernard Laporte will have a lot to say to his players. They have a mountain to climb if they want to get anything from this game. Second half is minutes away so don't go anywhere.

Another maul that Toulon failed to deal with, with Ribes going through the middle of the rook and touching down with no one at home. A very poor try to concede but Brive won't mind. Germain misses his first kick of the night as Brive lead 20-3.

It goes from bad to worse for Toulon with hooker Ribes going over for the home side scoring the first try of the game.

It just all seems to be going wrong for toulon

Germain hits a monster kick into the Toulon 22. Can Brive get another score before half time.

Toulon go on the attack and Mermoz who was dropped from the French squad this week makes a great run but has little support and is penalised for holding on.

Germain finally gets to take his kick and he makes no mistake. Brive have a commanding lead now. Toulon have not go started in this game yet.

just a small clash between Delon Armitage and Laranjeira but nothing serious and doesn't punish either but Castrogiovanni is not so lucky as he is sent to the bin for his role in giving away the last penalty.

Before the kick the referee is talking to TMO as he spotted an infringment during the last play.

Another maul and another penalty for Brive with Italian Castrogiovanni failing to roll away. Germain will look increase their lead even further just before half time.