Franco Smith will experience the Investec Champions Cup last 16 for the second time with the Glasgow Warriors after helping them beat Racing 92 in Scotland on Friday.
Smith led Glasgow to the EPCR Challenge Cup final in his first season before delivering the Vodacom URC title in his second, and now remains on course for more silverware after a convincing 29-19 win at Scotstoun Stadium.
The result took Glasgow to the top of Pool 4 with 12 points from three games and guaranteed a place in the knockout stage. Racing fielded a reshuffled team which was missing scrumhalf Nolann Le Garrec, loose forward Cameron Woki as well as star centre Gael Fickou. Rory Darge added a fifth in the second period before Matt Fagerson’s yellow card allowed Racing to add two late consolation tries.Glasgow took an early lead after Josh McKay’s break carried them beyond the Racing backline with the ball going via Tom Jordan to George Horne who dived over.Horne’s replacement, Jamie Dobie, scored after Fagerson had made a powerful line break to burst clear of the Racing defence before feeding Dobie for a simple score.
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