Both teams make their way out onto the field. Kick off is moments away
Toulouse have made nine changes to the side that hammered Grenoble last week, three of which are positional switches. In the front row Cyril Baille replaces Schalk Ferreira at loosehead. A new second row partnership with Yoann Maestri partnering Argentinian Patricio Albacete with the Argentine coming in for the injured Romain Millo-Chluski. Joe Tekori.Yacouba Camara is promoted from the bench to start ahead the experienced Yannick Nyanga who will start the game from the bench. on the side of the scrum.Jano Vermaak comes into the starting line-up at scrum half as Jean-Marc Doussain shifts to fly-half, where he has played occasionally for Toulouse this season. New Zealander Luke Mcalister goes to 12 while Clement Poitrenaud moves to full-back. Yoann Huget replaces Clerc on the right wing who has not been passed fit for the match with Maxime Medard also missing out through injury.There are four changes to the Racing starting XV. Bernard le Roux returns to the back row, meaning Antoine Battut moves to the number six jersey and Wenceslas Lauret drops to the bench. Argentinian international Juan Imhoff takes over from French International Andreu on the left wing who is injured for tonights clash while Henry Chavancy starts ahead of Fabrice Estebanez at outside centre. Benjamin Fall who will be joining Montpellier next season returns from injury on the bench. Kick off is coming up so stay with us for what is expected to be a thrilling match.
Toulouse with the winner going through to the semi where they will meet play Toulon. This time last year these two sides were playing eachother in the exact fixture in a play where Toulouse were victorious that day winning 33-19 before losing to Toulon in the semi's. Toulouse will start as the favourites tonight and after 20 consecutive finals they will be hoping to make it 21 with a win over the Parisians Racing Metro. Toulouse who went through some bad form in March and looked like missing out on a play-off spot but after some strong performance they managed to finish fourth finishing ahead of Racing because of a better points difference. After an impressive win over Grenoble last week Toulouse will be full of confidence tonight as they look to end their season with a trophy, as for Racing who were arguably one of the better sides in the second half of the season, they were humiliated by Montpellier last week as their 5 game winning steak ended. Racing have never made the semi's in their short existence in Rugby Union, but they will hoping to turn that around tonight. Toulouse have only lost twice at home in 53 games but Racing, did have one of the best away records in the league so they will fancy themselves tonight. Kick off is less than half an hour away so stay with us for further updates and analysis.