Saracens crashed out of the Investec Champions Cup after a 45-12 loss at Bordeaux.
Bordeaux scored six tries in all to arrange a house quarter-final in opposition to Harlequins subsequent week.
The French facet had been denied no fewer than 5 first-half tries by TMO and assistant referee selections, however fly-half Mateo Garcia scored two tries both facet of the half-time interval to settle his facet’s nerves.
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Maxime Lucu opened the scoring taking a easy penalty likelihood following a Saracens offside.
The guests misplaced lock Maro Itoje for 10 minutes following a deliberate knock-on and that allowed Bordeaux to register their first strive of the sport, Romain Buros making the get away large and Garcia selecting up and ending off.
Bordeaux No 8 Tevita Tatafu managed to maintain the ball alive earlier than going to the touch, the ball ricocheting off the knee of Ben Earl and being touched down over the road by Garcia.
Bordeaux snuffed out any remaining hope for the guests as scrum energy put Saracens on the again foot, permitting Garcia and wing Damian Penaud to mix to place centre Nicolas Depoortere beneath the posts.
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Louis Bielle-Biarrey quickly added a fourth from a free ball bouncing off the pinnacle of centre Yoram Moefana, Lucu sustaining his good kicking report.
With the end result within the bag Depoortere added his second from a slick faucet penalty transfer, earlier than Alex Lewington grabbed a comfort strive for Saracens.
Bielle-Biarrey added his second to rub salt in Saracens’ wounds, Tom Willis responding for the away facet nevertheless it was too little too late.
Exeter attain quarter-finals
Exeter Chiefs’ Zack Wimbush and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso rejoice victory over Tub
Tub couldn’t overcome the lack of injured fly-half Finn Russell as Exeter reached the Champions Cup quarter-finals by beating them 21-15 at a windswept Sandy Park.
Scotland star Russell departed the motion after simply quarter-hour, earlier than his substitute Orlando Bailey went off damage in the course of the third quarter.
Exeter Chiefs’ Greg Fisilau scores their facet’s second strive
And the cumulative impact was an excessive amount of for Tub to soak up as Exeter fought again – into the wind – from eight factors adrift.
The Chiefs, match winners in 2020, scored tries via No 8 Ross Vintcent, substitute Greg Fisilau and flanker Ethan Roots, with Roots’ England colleague Henry Slade kicking three conversions.
Leinster e-book La Rochelle conflict
Leinster’s Champions Cup title problem gathered additional tempo with a 36-22 win over Leicester on the Aviva Stadium.
Having final lifted the trophy in 2018, a fiercely-determined Leinster cancelled out Handre Pollard’s fourth-minute strive as Jamison Gibson-Park’s working off the ball was rewarded with a first-half hat-trick.
Robbie Henshaw’s intercept effort 4 minutes later successfully sealed the end result whereas replacements Jack Conan and Charlie Clare exchanged late scores in entrance of an attendance of 40,775.
The victory places Leinster right into a quarter-final in opposition to La Rochelle.
The French giants, who edged out the Stormers 22-21 in Cape City, will return to Dublin for subsequent week’s heavyweight quarter-final, 11 months on from retaining their European crown in fairytale vogue.
Ospreys and Edinburgh progress in Problem Cup
Ospreys roared into the quarter-finals of the European Problem Cup with a gritty 23-15 victory over Sale Sharks.
Tries from Morgan Morris, Keelan Giles and Reuben Morgan-Williams had been sufficient to ship the hosts via, with Owen Williams kicking a conversion and two penalties.
Sale responded with second-half tries by Tom O’Flaherty and Ben Curry in addition to the boot of Robert du Preez, who landed a conversion and a penalty however Ospreys held on.
Edinburgh joined them within the quarter-finals with a 33-15 win in opposition to Bayonne at Murrayfield.
The French facet struck first via Tom Spring’s transformed strive earlier than Edinburgh hit again when Hamish Watson crossed the whitewash to depart the hosts trailing by two at half-time.
Ben Vellacott crossed twice and an extra strive from Duhan van der Merwe accomplished the scoring for Edinburgh.
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