Racing 92 and Toulouse maintained their winning starts to the Top 14 season with victories over La Rochelle and Agen respectively on Saturday.

Having kicked off their campaign with a 27-22 win at European champions Toulon last weekend, Racing were involved in another tight affair as they picked up a 20-19 win at Stade Yves du Manoir.

The visitors started the stronger but struggled to make the most of their dominance, although Gabriel Lacroix went over to help move them into a 10-6 lead after 33 minutes.

That advantage was short-lived, though, as Camille Chat powered over before the break, with Maxime Machenaud adding the extras to make it 13-10 at half-time.

Racing extended that lead further when - with La Rochelle down to 14 men thanks to a yellow card - Chris Masoe scored his second try in as many matches from a rolling maul.

Machenaud's kick appeared to give Racing a healthy cushion, but three penalties from Zack Holmes saw the visitors come within a whisker of snatching victory, missing two drop-goal attempts before time was up.

Former All Black Corey Flynn notched two tries for Toulouse in their victory at Agen, but it was not such a good day for Montpellier.

Jake White's men kicked off the season with a bonus-point win against Oyonnax but were undone by Pau on Saturday, losing 26-16 to the newly promoted side at Stade du Hameau.

Oyonnax bounced back from their defeat to Montpellier by registering a bonus-point victory of their own - beating Bordeaux-Begles 37-19 at home in a match that goes down as the first to be played on artificial turf in the Top 14.

In the day's remaining clash, Brive picked up a 22-13 win against Stade Francais, who were shorn of a host of forwards through injury and international duty.