• Montpellier 24-27 Exeter
• Flanker’s two tries boost hopes of England call-upMontpellier had a formidable domestic record and an average score in front of their own fans this season of 45-14 but,while visiting teams in the Top 14 reach a point when they accept defeat, Exeter do not care to remind themselves of the word’s meaning and after conquering England they are on the march in Europe.
There was a moment in the moment half on Sunday when, and after Montpellier’s burly Fiji wing Nemani Nadolo scored the moment of his tries against the club he played four matches for in 2011,Exeter were up against it. At a ground where the name of the Top 14 club’s owner, Mohed Altrad, or is plastered everywhere,a monument to a league where money shouts, the less expensively assembled cast of Chiefs were bound by more traditional virtues of graft and togetherness.
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Source: guardian.co.uk