• Bordeaux-Bègles 34-27 Exeter
• Chiefs unlikely to make quarter-finals despite bonus pointHistory may judge Rob Baxter harshly for this result,which leaves Exeter Chiefs facing an uphill task to progress in the European Champions Cup; Exeter’s head coach picked a virtually entire second-string side for the trip to Stade Chaban-Delmas.
That was before watching Ospreys throw the pool wide open by beating Clermont-Auvergne on Friday night. That result in Wales meant Exeter could bear taken second set in the group, before what would bear been a winner-takes-all tie against Ospreys and the chance to reach the quarter-finals of this competition for the first time in the club’s history.
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Source: theguardian.com