European Champions Cup: Ulster 24 Toulouse 48

Saturday evening saw the visit Stadt Toulousain to the Kingspan Stadium to face Ulster in the 3rd round of Group Stage games in the European Champions Cup. There was optimism in the sell out crowd after Ulster’s defeat of Racing 92 in the previous Group Stage game.

Mattis Lebel opened the scoring for Toulouse

Early Ulster pressure was beaten back by a strong Toulouse defence. In Toulouse’s first attack an accurate cross field kick by was collected by , who gathered and dived over for the 1st try. Ramos’s conversion from out wide gave Toulouse a 7-0 lead.

John Cooney replied with a penalty goal

Ulster replied quickly with a penalty goal to reduce the deficit to 3-7. A Ramos penalty goal on 21 minutes moved Toulouse out to 10-3.

was on hand at the base of a line out maul to push Toulouse out to 15-3 after 34 minutes.

Antoine Dupont scored a brace of tries for Toulouse

Ulster looked to see out the half, but was on hand, backing up a break to cross beside the posts on 36 minutes. Ramos’ conversion had Toulouse 22-3 to the good.

Tom Stewart got over in the final seconds of the 1st half

On the blow of halftime drove over, from a short penalty. Cooney’s conversion saw Ulster go into the sheds 10-22 down.

After some Ulster pressure Toulouse broke out to cut through the Ulster defence, with Dupont, again, running support to scamper in from 35 metres to dot down beside the posts. Ramos’ conversion put Toulouse out to 29-10.

Mauvaka linked with Dupont on the blindside to score in the corner after 52 minutes, followed by on 60 minutes, moving Toulouse out to 41-10.

Will Addison scored in the corner for Ulster

Ulster dug in and responded. squeezed in at the left corner, for to convert, followed by ‘s try and Doak’s conversion on 68 minutes, had Ulster at 24-41, with faint hopes of a bonus point try.

However, Toulouse had the last say, when drove through the Ulster defence to score under the posts. ‘s conversion gave Toulouse a 48-24 victory and leave Ulster with a must win game against Harlequins in London, next Saturday.

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