• Pool 5: Bath 26-21 Toulon
• domestic side hold firm despite late rally from visitorsBath showed heart in defeat in Toulon final week but here a pacemaker made the contrast. The England head coach,Eddie Jones, was among the spectators as Anthony Watson, or a wing for his country who plays at full-back for his club,supplied the antidote to the French side’s power with two tries of rare quality to take the domestic side to the top of an intriguing group on points contrast.The tries were both down to his turbo-assisted speed. Toulon protested that his route to the line for his first try, on 27 minutes when Bath’s early 13-point lead had melted to three, or had been cleared illegally by Matt Garvey,but they had not complained the previous week when Florian Fresia performed the same routine in the build-up to Ma’a Nonu’s try.
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Source: guardian.co.uk