Lock Chesney scores only try as Toulon bounce back at Biarritz, Clermont leave it late at Bourgoin, Bayonne blank Agen, La Rochelle give Stade Francais a shock and Castres' Beziers gamble ends in victory over Toulouse

Biarritz 3 Toulon 13, Bourgoin 12 Clermont 25, Bayonne 27 Agen 0, Stade Francais 41 La Rochelle 26, Montpellier 36 Racing-Metro 19, Brive 26 Perpignan 11, Castres 22 Toulouse 16 - See the latest league table

Biarritz 3 Toulon 13

After their home defeat to Bayonne in Week 1, Toulon's second Basque encounter of the season was rather more successful as they dominated a tight, attritional battle to win with a couple of scores to spare.

Although both sides had plenty of scoring chances, Kris Chesney scored the only try of the match on 26 minutes. The visitors capitalised on an uncharacteristic error from Imanol Harinordoquy - the No.8 completely misjudged a high ball, Joe El-Abd was first on the scene and fed to Fabien Cibray. The scrum-half found the gap in the backpedalling Basque defence and threw a pass to Chesney - the big lock only had to dash in to score his first try for the club since joining from Saracens 15 months ago.

Toulon could have been 13-0 up by that point, Biarritz hooker Romain Terrain saving a certain score on seven minutes with a late tackle on Rory Lamont as he raced towards the tryline, and Jonny Wilkinson missing with a penalty and a drop goal attempt before Chesney's score. Wilkinson was reprieved before half-time though - Dimitri Yachvili might opened the scoring with a penalty on 37 minutes, but he missed a sitter on the stroke of half-time that would have sent the teams in just a point apart.

The second half was characterised by handling errors from both sides, the Basques edging it with 16 knock-ons over the 80 minutes and the clearly injured Harinordoquy being guilty of a couple of those himself.

Toulon's own returning star, Wilkinson, extended the visitors' lead with a penalty and then a drop goal around the hour mark, and although Biarritz tried to spread the ball in the final quarter, it was Toulon that went closest, winger Rudi Wulf gathering loose ball and putting Paul Sackey clear only for the England winger to knock on with the tryline begging.

Matt Henjak went close again five minutes from time but was pulled up short, and although Takudzwa Ngwenya and Julien Peyrelongue both sparked attacks from deep in the Basques' half, they came to nothing and Toulon - last season's most successful team on the road - held on comfortably to get off the mark in 2010/11.

Bourgoin 12 Clermont 25

Champions Clermont left it late before earning their first win of the season away at battling Bourgoin. The hosts were on top for most of the first period, with only big tackles from Clermont's defence and a desperately tight forward pass from lock Camille Levast five metres from the line preventing them from getting a try on the board. As it was, Alberto di Bernardo and Morgan Parra shared four penalties between them, although Bourgoin's Argentinian fly-half should have landed two penalties before the break.

He did establish a 12-6 lead mid-way through the second half, but although only an Aurelien Rougerie tackle had saved an almost certain Bourgoin score on 53 minutes, Clermont were gaining the upper hand, and after 10 minutes of pressure home winger Jean-Francois Coux was shown a yellow card for preventing the tackled Rougerie from releasing the ball.

As he left he field, Coux obviously left the floodgates open - Napolioni Nalaga went over from the next play, flanker Alexandre Lapandry charged over three minutes later and a minute from time, winger Wesley Fofana gathered a lucky grubber on the touchline, found the gap with a dummy and raced over from 40 metres out.

A shell-shocked Bourgoin will no doubt take some heart from the first 70 minutes, but conceding the lead and a bonus point to their neighbours in little over five minutes will take some getting over. For Clermont, one win from two away trips will settle the ship before next week's first home match against Brive.

Bayonne 27 Agen 0

Bayonne hinted that last week's win at Toulon was no one-off, claiming a bonus point with a three-try whitewash of promoted Agen. The club's new Julien Audy/Benjamin Boyet half-back pairing continues to gel, Audy following up flanker Guillaume Bernad's blindside run on eight minutes to feed Boyet just before he was flattened by two Agen defenders. The tackled Boyet slipped a pass to Rob Linde as he hit the ground and the South African lock raced clear for the first try.

Just as they did in the later stages of their opening match in Toulouse, Agen showed signs of life, usually sparked by their powerful pack and the sharp skills of outside half Conrad Barnard, but their backs over-complicated matters and their only real chance of points came on 25 minutes, only for Barnard to miss a penalty attempt.

Bayonne's pack got on top around the half-hour mark, Audy using a spell of pressure on the Agen try line to spin it wide and see centre Craig Gower dashing in for the second try and a 20-0 lead.

The eagerness to get any points on the board scuppered Agen's attempts to break the duck, with their second-half performance marked by too many handling errors. Bayonne replacement prop Renaud Boyoud was forced to watch the last few minutes from the bench after delaying the set scrum, but the visitors couldn't make the man advantage count, Valentin Courrent kicking away posession with four minutes on the clock.

Lionel Mazars claimed the bonus point for the hosts three minutes from time, the Basques holding their scrum steady for Cedric Garcia to slip a pass to centre Mazars, who held off three defenders to score and send Bayonne to the top of the table.

Agen at least have the comfort of a home game next weekend as Top 14 rugby returns to Stade Armandie with the tricky visit of Biarritz.

Stade Francais 41 La Rochelle 26

Bayonne are joined in te top two by Stade Francais, who ran in five tries for the second week in a row but who were denied a bonus point by a La Rochelle side that continues to defy the pre-season doom-mongers.

Les Maritimes actually led 19-17 10 minutes into the second half, Thomas Combezou's 50-metre interception try restoring a lead they had held for much of the first half. The Parisians dominated the first quarter but only had three points to show for their efforts before, on their first visit into the home half, les Rochelais bagged five points, using a simple overlap to send winger Florien Ninard over.

Full-back Maxime Lebourhis didn't even have to enter the half to extend the lead with a 55-metre penalty, and added an easier 25-metre goal to establish an 11-3 lead on 24 minutes before Stade scored their first try of the evening through centre Mathieu Bastareaud.

Lebourhis added a third penalty to make it 14-11 at the interval, but just like against Bourgoin last week, Stade came out firing after the break and winger Ollie Phillips restored the home advantage, popping a chip over the defence and winning the race to ground the ball.

Combezou's try put a shock back on the cards but a deliberate knock-on by La Rochelle scrum-half Benjamin Ferrou saw him receive a yellow card and gave Paris the chance to break out. First Julien Dupuy gave Stade the lead with an easy penalty, then Dimitri Szarzewski, Hugo Southwell and Julien Arias scored in quick succession to make it 41-19 before Ferrou returned to the field of play.

With parity restored, Stade found it hard to build a cushion for that bonus point, and lost the extras seven minutes from time when Combezou followed up his pack to dive over from short range. Despite plenty of posession, the hosts couldn't quite score a sixth try and while they'll be happy with the four points ahead of next week's trip to Toulouse, La Rochelle were far from disgraced and will be looking forward to the first relegation eight-pointer of the season as Bourgoin visit Stade Deflandre next Saturday.

Montpellier 36 Racing-Metro 19

The Fabien Galthié era at Stade du Manoir got off to a good start as a Geoffrey Doumayrou hat-trick helped Montpellier to a convincing win over Racing-Metro.

Racing raced into a 13-0 lead, Jonathan Wisniewski kicking two penalties before Julien Saubade scored the game's first try, an interception score after Montpellier themselves had launched a counter-attack.

Doumayrou opened his account two minutes later, full back Jean-Matthieu Alcade drawing Francois Steyn to send the 20-year-old in for his first Top 14 try.

Francois Trinh-Duc converted, and his drop goal closed the gap to three points before Doumayrou doubled his tally, throwing a dummy and racing through three tackles to score and put the hosts 17-13 ahead.

It could have been more had Steyn not pulled off a last-ditch tackle on young winger Philippe Berard, but Timoci Negusa soon made it 22-13, capitalising on a blunder by fellow fijian Albert Vuli-Vuli to chip ahead, catch the ball and ground in the corner.

Trinh-Duc made it 25 unanswered points with a penalty after half-time before an exchange of penalties with Wisniewski kept Racing in the hunt for a bonus point. But Doumayrou had the last word, completing his hat-trick with the last play of the evening. Throwing the ball wide, Racing lost posession and captain Fulgence Ouedraogo gathered to put the centre over for the first hat-trick of this Top 14 season.

Brive 26 Perpignan 11

Racing's Week 1 scalps Brive turned themselves around to beat 2009 champions Perpignan at Stade Amedée-Domenech. The hosts were 20-3 up after just 18 minutes, Irish lock Damian Browne following up Scott Spedding's counter-attack to score the first try and Gerhard Vosloo adding the second two minutes later.

The scores effectively ended the game as a contest, with Perpignan - as they did so often last season - losing heart when faced with uphill tasks away from home.

The Catalans did trouble the video referee around the hour mark, twice having tries disallowed after they barged over from pick-and-goes, but Julien Candelon's 72nd minute try was little more than a consolation score, awarded by the video referee despite a blatant forward pass by Phil Burger to the USAP winger.

Brive face a tricky trip to Clermont next Saturday, while Perpignan can hope to get their campaign back on track at home to resurgent Montpellier.

Castres 22 Toulouse 16

Castres' gamble in moving their first home match of the season to Beziers' paid off as they beat rivals Toulouse - but the match wasn't without its controversy.

The main talking point will be Chris Masoe's 16th minute try. Castres' half backs set up the score, Alexandre Albouy changing the direction of play and passing to Cameron McIntyre. The New Zealander took it up to within two metres of the line and tossed up a pass for No.8 Masoe to cross for the try.

Referee Christophe Berdos awarded the try, but replays showed that Masoe dropped the ball as he grounded it, but Romain Teulet won't have minded as he added the conversion to two earlier penalties to give Castres a 13-0 lead.

Toulouse were finding it hard to get their familiar backs move flowing, with 19-year-old outside-half Jean-Marc Doussain coming out second best in the face of Castres' experienced back row.

Vincent Clerc took it upon himself to spark Toulouse's response, setting up an attack on the half hour which gave the visitors a five-metre line-out. Clean ball set up a series of pick and go but after repeated Castres' infringements, Toulouse settled for a penalty which Doussin converted to open Toulouse's account.

The second-half followed the indisciplined, error-strewn example of most of Week 2's matches, with Doussain and Teulet swapping kicks until Castres led 22-9 going into the last 15 minutes. Substitutions had caused Toulouse to up their tempo, with Vilimoni Delasau at the forefront of the visitors' attacks.

It was a big break from the Fijian that led to the second try, as Delasau's attack deep into the Castres half was taken on through several phases before flanker Sylvain Nicolas crashed through and got under the defenders to ground the ball.

Nicolas Bezy converted to put Toulouse only six points behind, and although Castres went close from the restart, the last 10 minutes was all Toulouse, but despite charging runs from Delasau, Castres' solid defence held out and their first delocalisation will be deemed a success. Toulouse will no doubt be back to full strength for next week's visit of Stade Francais.