Top 14 Round-up: Red card costs Ronan O'Gara's La Rochelle dearly

RED MIST: La Rochelle's coach Ronan O'Gara.  (Photo by XAVIER LEOTY / AFP) (Photo by XAVIER LEOTY/AFP via Getty Images)

After two tight Top 14 wins in a row, Ronan O’Gara’s La Rochelle slipped to a 27-10 defeat at Racing 92, as a red card, a yellow card and two tries in 10 frenetic first-half minutes cost them dearly.

Winger Teddy Thomas was sent off in the 25th minute after clotheslining Racing’s scrum-half Nolan Le Garrec. Two minutes later, a penalty try and a yellow card for hooker Pierre Bourgarit were inevitable after a Racing maul was brought down a metre from the line.