After trailing 31–12 at the half, Quins threatened an upset against the five-time champions at Stadium de Toulouse by cutting the margin to five points in the second half.
Before Toulouse eventually got through Quins’ defense to score their first points of the second half, Juan Cruz Mallia’s try for their sixth try of the game, Jack Walker’s yellow card hampered their momentum for several minutes.
Wilson mentioned, “We got done at the breakdown, and they counter-rucked and turned us over,” on Sports.
If your breakdown is not very good after going through a number of processes like we do to break teams down, you are in trouble.
“The top teams don’t just give you the ball; they also score points when you turn it over, which really hurt us.